Dear members I research two old books by Praeger 'The Semperviva of the Canary Islands' and the monography 'The Sempervivum group' (1929 and 1932) I am...
Dear Euphorbiophiles, I am pleased to announce a further update to my Euphorbia Web-Pages at www.euphorbia.de The site has grown to 243 MB with 2368 large...
Dear Philip, thanks for your idea. As I cultivate the plants in the open and as it is quite windy here, I have to find some kind of “protection” against...
Thanks for the answer, Clifford. Does this plant form a caudex? Best regards, Martin Rasmussen - Copenhagen, Denmark - GMT: +01:00 ... but I when ... ...
Hi Fernando, Jatopha curcas is mainly planted for its oil seed which is a recource for biodiesel. http://www.jatropha.de/ http://www.jatrophaworld.org/ ...
Yes it does produce a caudex but it takes many years. I have had my plant about 4 years and the caudex is less than an inch in diameter. My plant produced a...
Hi. I have a plant which is ten years old grown from seed, in the ground and 4 ft tall despite regular pruning and it has not shown any sign of a caudex I know...
Hello, I recently purchased a fan aloe from the local nursery. Very healthy looking, but seemed too big and top heavy for its pot. I repotted it in a larger...
Did you take some of the old soil off of the roots when you repotted it, sounds like maybe it is too dry or you didn't pack the new soil tightly enough....
Place a section of plastic garden edging around the plant to hold it upright. The roots will eventually grow outward into the new soil to support the plant. ...
Hello. Last year in October I got myself a Dioscorea mexicana bare root, leafless. So far nothing has happen, no shoots, no new roots. Is this long dormancy...
I've posted this on a couple sites...forgive me if it is repetitious, I just need t ofind homes for these guys. I found a deal on a grocery sack full of...
Hello all, :o) I have a succulent plant that I'd like to identify. I purchased it last year at WalMart for something like $0.50 and if it had a name on it, I...
If the tuber is still firm, even if it has shrunken considerably, it is fine. Mine tend to go in and out of dormancy depending on daylight lengths and temp....
This plant has surprised me, I only received it last Autumn and its still a very small plant, yet it has produced lots of mauve flowers, lovely! Delosperma...
This is my white flowering Kalanchoe blossfeldiana that I grew from a cutting. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/Dawnrider/Plants/kalanchoeblossfeldian ...
Hey Bihrmann i didnt know you went here! ... From: <other_succulents@yahoogroups.com> To: <other_succulents@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006...
I was looking for any news about some plants of "Sphalamnthus aridum" that I have grown from seed (it came from S. Africa), but failed to find any (not in my...
Sphalmanthus have been subsumed into Phyllobolus, yet there is no record of an aridum under either genus or even under the very old all- covering genus...
Hello Roberto long time since I have heard from you. Sphalmanthus N.E.Br. has now been put into Phyllobolus. I found the following from Flowering Stones and...
Hi Please have a view of some of my fat plants including Adeniums and Pachypodiums. Clicking the images will give a panorama view of the plants which are worth...
At the local Home Depot I see a plant I am sure is a mesemb but I have no idea which one - perhaps someone can help. The plant is more or less a rosette,...