C and D's Succulents

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I think the red P. nelii flower has a bright future :)
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Ornithgalum sp.
with about 60 bulbs
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Ornithogalum circinata, with about 20 bulbs
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This Gasteria had these crested flower stocks last year. Little Warty Varigated
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Hummingbird candy shop
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I think that the current name game has all of those drooping head plants as albuca. I listened to some South African plant nuts complain about the switching of names between albuca and ornithogalum, back and forth.

I've neglected trying to pin down a plant that I'm growing "Albuca circinata x spiralis". It turns out that Albuca circintata is a synonym with Albuca namaquensis and Ornithogalum namaquense with Albuca namaquensis as the preferred.

In addition Albuca spiralis is synonomized with Ornithogalum circinatum (which was never mentioned in the first.

We think cactus names are bad.
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Thanks Buck
Albuca for now on.

The Albuca circinata x spiralis is a hybrid between the two. Bill Hagblom grows them, some clones have more spirlaing than other clones.
My photo of the above is the true species with alittle spiraling.
Albuca spiralis is smaller, has really good spirals, but has a short growing season and is sensitive to out of season watering
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The Lithops have started growing, and I've started watering slowly, but some need more than others now.
It is a fun time for them, seeing how many heads, the new colors.

Lithops verruculosa "Rose of Texas"
the single head has stayed single for 3 years now, its not attached to that other one, they just grew together
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L. lesliei v. burchellii, needs watering!
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Gibbaeum heathii v. comptonii
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Gibbaeum pretense
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Nelia schlecterii
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Cheiridopsis percularis
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Coreopsis gigantia, finally flowering
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The Carruanthus are flowering like crazy
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My G. heathii is also flowering but it is white. I'll try and get a picture this week. First time for me.

Has the 'Rose of Texas' Lithops flowered yet? I'm not far behind you with the Lithops. I haven't watered anything except small seedlings yet but soon :)
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The Cheiridopsis looks especially nice.
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Carruanthus too! Your plants are so much more compact than the ones here. I was given one that would suit a hanging basket and have managed to propagate it to a somewhat squat shrub, but not compact tufts like yours.
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I grow the Carruanthus and most other winter growers outside, with no shade cloth. The Haworthias and Conos are under glass.

Speaking of Conos, they do look kind of interesting at this time
Conophytum cubicum
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C. chrisocruxum, with flowers?, wierd, (spelling?)
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Clumps of C. ectypum v. brownii on left, v. sulcatum, on left going to sleep. C. uvaeforme not ready to sleep yet, upper right
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3 forms of C. maughanii v. armenicum, I like the red plums the best, they all have seed pods
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Craig, you're picture of Conophytum maughanii reminded me of a plant that we saw in South Africa that I've never been happy with my ID on. The sign nearby these plants said C. pillansii, but my two Aizoaceae books have it lumped into C. subfenestratum which looks nothing at all like the plant. Could be the reference plant near the sign had died. In any case What do you think of this guy. In the Knersvlakte near Vanrynsdorp.

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I don't think you'd find C. maughanii in the knersvlakte. Its amazing how different these plants can look in habitat, flat and strongly coloured.
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I guess that's my point. There it is growing but has no name. Poor plant.
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Could be C. sub., some of mine would look like that if I left them out in the SA desert for awhile. I will post a photo of them soon.
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The winter mesemb bench is alive with color
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Its the first time for these plants to have flowers together. You know what that means. - sex
Vanheerdea primosii
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A quick check on the Gibbaeum album, they are looking good for late spring flowering, purple, white and rose flowered forms. G. neobrownii upper right
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This was my fav. Cheiridopsis denticulata for a couple years,
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Until I got this 3 years ago, its coming along nicely. Mesa 1366.8. I got seeds growing too.
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This is one of my Favorite of all Mesembs. Hopefully it will flower later in the season. This plant had ~10 or more heads a couple times, but it had to be cut back to save it after the stems got to long, and it just abandons them after flowering
Cheiridopsis pillansii
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One last flower shot
Gibbaeum velutinum on left, and in top photo on upper left
and Phyllobolus delus on right
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Looking good!!! :)
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