This time Huernia hislopii ssp cashelensis. Plant from Ernst Specks, Germany. Carries the number PVB7415. So it is the same clone as Loekie showed here on 27...
The label claimed to it to be Huernia 'Fantasia', but I know the other asclepiad I bought at the same time was for sure not labled correctly. It certainly was...
Dear Jacques, thank you for the nice flowers - they are very interesting for us - because this is not Hoodia pilifera. There are some hints on H. pilifera: the...
Good evening everyone, Another chapter in the continuing tale of Rob's Quaquas, this is Q. confusa (or Q. parviflora ssp. confusa) RN197 from Sout River...
Good evening everyone, A second offering this evening, well I've been quiet for a while, probably much to everyone's relief. This is Huernia hystrix var....
hi everyone heres a picture of a small sworm of grasshoppers i guess resting on a hoodia. they didnt seem to be eating it so i just left them and eventually...
John Frew wrote 2 August 2007: A second offering this evening, well I've been quiet for a while, probably much to everyone's relief. ...snip... Dear John, You...
Dear Jacques, Many thanks for your nice comments and there are more photos in the pipeline. Strangely enough on the "wet" west coast of Scotland we didn't get...
Hi Joe, it looks to me like a hybrid that I have in my collection, which is a man-made cross between Huernia zebrina v zebrina and Huernia saudiarabica Best...
Dear Joe, This looks like one of a number of plants which were on sale in Europe about 4 - 5 years ago, they were supposed to have originated in the U.S. and...
Good morning everyone, More as promised (or threatened), these are two clones of H. insigniflora, a plant with a 'confused' history. First described by Maas...
And pretty clueless about staps. Here is a brief introduction in reply to my welcome letter requesting one. My name is Sharon, and I live in Phoenix, Arizona,...
Hello Friederike & Uli, Thank you for your comment. This is too difficult for me. I have no specialised know-how about and I am not familiar with the structure...
Dear Jacques, I forgot something: the center of the flower (corona) of your plant is growing on a short stem, Hoodia pilifera don't has those arising coronas. ...
hello to all i read this in an ebay auction about the hoodia eating its roots and then blowing around the desert in search of more water what are your thoughts...
When I was managing a 50,000 acre ranch in South Africa in Namaqualand we had untold thousands of Hoodia and other Stapeliads and I doubt the story. First, in...
Flowering is Pseudolithos caput-viperae, the snake head Pseudolithos, with minute urn-shaped flowers. Plant grafted on a Stapelia. If you have sufficient...
Good morning everyone, flowering is an unusual Orbea maculata ssp. rangeana from Onrus Namibia. I got it as a Bruyns collection but unfortunately I don't...
Hi Loukie, thanks for the impressive distribution data on the Namibian subspiecies of O. maculata. I hope to figure out Bruyns field number by following your...
my first flower on this plant i purchased a few moths back with out name any ideas about its name thanks jim in california ... From: Dr Loukie Viljoen To:...
Good evening everyone, This is probably the penultimate chapter in the saga of Rob's Quaquas, this is Quaqua gracilis (or Q. parviflora ssp. gracilis), RN620,...
Flowering this morning is Orbea verrucosa. Two clones collected by Ingo Breuer which are relatively small spotted and resembling O. pulchella. The first from...
Group, Took a nice visit out to Meadowbrook Farm in Pennsylvania, and caught this one in bloom. http://www.flickr.com/photos/epiforums/1035863922/ Eddie ...
Dear friends, this is my favorite flower this summer - Caralluma foulcheri-delboscii RH 879, collected from Pavel Hanácek and Miroslav Ricánek 17 km E...
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