Just talked with one of my professors and confirmed the next course at the Huntington will be on the Cactaceae! I'm stoked! Things are looking good in the greenhouses, Adeniums coming into flower as well as many of the euphorbs, pachypodiums coming back into leaf, including some I grew from seed! Ph...

Thanks george! I'll be sure to put a label on it.

Thanks so much esp_imaging! Another plant that will finally have a tag.

It's been a warm weather week here in San Luis Obispo, and the plants are responding. More flowers to share! http://i.imgur.com/yIkFWUj.jpg Delosperma sphalmanthoides again, this time putting on a large show. The flowers tend to look best on their first day opening, and continue to open daily with t...

Deerhuntin-My major applies more to writing Environmental Impact Reports compliant with the California Environmental Quality act, but with my concentration, I will also know a lot about surveying sites for plants and other wildlife, and I get to take classes like Plant Taxonomy and Field Botany(With...

Hello all, My name is Colton and I'm an Environmental Management major at Cal Poly SLO with a concentration in Wildlife Biology. I work at the Cal Poly Plant Conservatory, and I tend to the Desert room as well as other propagation and tropical rooms. I also propagate plants from seed, mainly caudici...

Hoping someone can ID this Crassula sp. I have, finally in bloom with white-pink flowers.

Hey all, just picked up some lithops from home depot, wondering if anyone could help me with identifying them.

Yeah, meristematic tissue in the leaf is capable of turning into roots and new stems/leaves, usually called asexual propagation

I would definitely get them out of that soil ASAP, or when you water them they might rot. I'd suggest mixing what they're in with a lot of perlite

Awesome lophs! I wish I could have more in my collection, but they are so hard to get in the US

The first thing you should probably do after buying cacti is repot them in a well draining soil mix, as most corporate stores will pot the plants in a regular potting soil that won't drain fast enough. This can lead to the cacti rotting and dying. I would suggest buying some cactus mix soil and addi...

Yep, root hairs! All good!

A picture would be very helpful to tell what the fuzz is!