Thank you all for identifying the plants! The Monadenium in particular is extremely robust, hardy and forgiving, and I think it's beautiful - I don't...
the Mon. ritchiei is actually fairly common, they sell them as one of those assorted succulents in 2" pots in stores. it has pretty pink flowers, as you know....
Hey Rod. I am almost sure, I will pass through Baguio City. Which nurseries is worth a visit, if you are in to caudiciforms and other special plants? I know I...
Hello to all I live in Italy and I would like to exchange cuttings with other person. I looking species of kalankoe, crassula, echeveria ,aeonium, gasteria,...
Hello, everyone. I was wondering if anyone could help me, how do you tell dioscorea elephantipes apart from dioscorea macrostachya? I know that one is native...
Hello Jason, Elephantipes is really much more beautifull : Smaller leaves (3/4 cm), mainly only winter growing, caudex less flat, more interesting and...
Hey Jason. As Alain writes, the leaves on D. elephantipes are small, I'll say around 1-2 centimetres. The leaves on D. macrostachya (which I call D. mexicana)...
hi everybody, i've seen some really old and big elephantipes in BGs in europe and they do grow very high. the mexicana/macrostachyas are sometimes found in ...
... Hello, I think it is also a Dioscorea. I've seen one at the Monaco Exotic Garden. I have a picture somewhere I must fing them. If somebody has this plante...
The brasilian Item / with spiny stemm like Neoalsomitra podagrica/ is Dioscorea basiclavicaulis.I saw it in Zuerich,but vital Busch grows also in BG...
yes, alain, i was talking about Dioscorea only. i'm still looking for: sylvatica, hemicrypta, rupicola, elephantipes, macrostachya/mexicana, etc., if anyone ...
Hey tsuh yang. Sounds like an interesting plant. Never heard of it, and didn't see it in Heidelberg BG last summer. Not much to find at Google, but IPNI ...
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That is defiantly some thing for it selves. Wish I had the room and source for it. Thanks for sheering he photo. Greetings; Bihrmann www.Bihrmann.com ... From:...
Just post my picture in files folder under DSCN7692.JPG as I was not able to open photos folder (don't know why !) This picture is from Monaco and the first...
Yes Bihrmann, if you find it think to me. My friend is chief of the private collections from the Monaco's Jardin Exotique but the plant is small so :( Alain...
Hi. Yes,I am sure,I saw a very compact bush in Heildeberg,5 years ago,more bigger than in Zuerich,.I do not know the locality ,but it seems,the plant need...
all this Dioscorea talk has me excited This is the most info. I have ever seen on the net. I have been collecting for years but nearly all are the under...
Hi, I had to upload the images to the files directory, there seems to be some error with the Photos folder that I couldn't figure out. Perhaps the moderator...
Apparently the photo section is full, the list owner needs to go into it and delete some pictures or maybe reduce some that are way too large so that some...
Thanks Jason, glad you like it. It is made to share my knowledge, mainly build as a Google reference "book". Actually, I started it because of my lack of...
there are maybe 1,000s of species in this genus and they occur everywhere, don't they? most probably do not qualify as succulents except for the few that have...
I must precise that lot of theses plants are more beautiful when they are seeds cultivated than from the field. Sure, less characteristic but really more...
Hello.....well we're getting 12-15" of snow here and your conversations on Dioscorea have been rather enlighening...I wasn't aware Mr. Birhmann that ...
Hey Kyle. I can't find any rules about dormantsy of elephantipes. I have heard of a Dutchman who sow tree seeds from the same plant in one pot. The all grow...
Mine, keep out frost in my greenhouse, are always "winter growing". New growth appear in july until september and stay alive until hot sun burns leaves. The...
Well, what I meant was eastern part of Cape area. Not really Eastern Africa, I know. But still, it is an area of summer rain. We might confuse each others: In...
for one thing, the cucurbit is always green whereas the Dios. is not... tsuh yang ... __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business -...
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