Morning, Loukie. O. dummeri was the first Stapeliad I had ever seen; it was love as first sight! At the time they were still discussing if it was a Huernia, a...
Hello Patricia :-) I have your same problem here in Italy in spring and in autumn, so I use a product based on Propamocarb to prevent the problem. I think it's...
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Querido Patricia , Bien venido in este grupo , mucho personas habla espanola in este grupo. Un otro idioma que el inglés es no problema. Soy el bien venido. ...
in my humble opinion it would be easier for a few to write in english versus the rest of us having to learn a new language??? ... From: ALBERT LEROY To:...
I do not have problem in writing in English, though my Englis is bad, from Buenos Aires Patricia Saavedra Jim Irwin <event@...> escribió: in my humble...
...in the next time I will collect the hybrids of this Genus, specially crossings with C. sandersonii. It is a big chaos in our collections. So different...
Hi Erwin. I'm a native Dane and would like to help you with the translation :-) ... forbedret holdbarhed i blomsten, samt større og finere blade. I lighed med...
This plant flowers in my collection consistently in the autumn. The scent is more like the "strong sweetish odour of excrements" of v. foetidus, as stated by...
Pour ceux qui ne comprennent pas d'autres langue il y aura bien toujours quelqu'un qui va se sacrifrier pour la traduction, ne vous inquiéter pas on est à...
hi aaron its very weird as they say we are having global warming but like you having snow which is cold and here in california we had our coldest febuary in...
I have a Piranthus foetidus and it flowered this summer. To me, it smells pretty much like my son's feet....not a pleasant smell, but not like rotting meat...
Here's a pretty one with a smell I just can't describe; more sweet than stinky but vaguely disturbing none the less, Huerniopsis astrosanguinea. And the...
Greetings from sunny Sucre, ... The field number appears to be wrong that number is from Kenya collected 1979 Best wishes Brian Bates Casilla 937 Sucre Bolivia...
My Stapelia divaricata looks quite different. The first flowers were pale yellow, and then recently I had a flower that was flushed pink, and pretty. I...
Hello, English is the language of the group. I understand German, English, Croatian, Serbian and of course Slovenian but I don't understand French or Spanish. ...
This time Orbea semota ssp. orientalis from the Kilimanjaro province in Tanzania. I could not find this ssp. in Albers & Meve, but it has been renamed in 2002...
Dear Jaques, I have a Piaranthus geminatus in my small collection (or I think I have) and I agree with your description of the odour! It is the worst smelling...
Hello Carol and all, Difficult to ID because the picture is a bit small. The corolla of Piaranthus geminatus ssp. geminatus is quite variable, so it can be...
I couldn't agree more. In fact, I translated a post for Patricia, and certainly would be willing to do so again. While I agree that no one can know every...