C and D's Succulents

[C And D]

Neat Phyllobolus sp., with a super fat tuber underneath


Nice Orange Lampranthus, I forgot the name


Miniature Favorite, Avonia quinaria ssp. quinaria
The little worm heads are reaching out to the heat, getting ready to open

[C And D]

Cheiridopsis peculiaris, is very Perculiar


Gibbaeum velutinum


The name of this plant has been a headache for many of us. We have confirmed it is a Oscularia. Buck Hemmingway and others call it O. primiverna, which it could be from the description in "Vygies, Gems of the Veld"

Buck had great big piles of them in his garden, it made a fantastic ground cover

But to me, it looks more like O. steenbergensis in the pictures of the same book. It is also the earliest flowerer of the genus. Any one else?

[iann]

Oscularia names are a nightmare, especially considering the genus was enlarged so recently. It could be either or neither.

The Lampranthus might be L. aureus. Lampranthus names are at least as difficult as Oscularia but this one is fairly common under that name.

Avonia names are defined much more clearly and this one is A. quinaria ssp quinaria. Ssp alstonii has larger white flowers. Still no chance here. Snow this week.

[C And D]

An Adromischus gallery

A. schuldtianus


A. cristatus "War Club"


A. marianae "Dick Hulett"


A. marianae "Alveolatus" yes

A marianae tanqua

A. marianae hallii

A. marianae herrei "Lime Drops"


A. marianae herrei "King Kongsberg"

A. marianae herrei "Butter Nut", low sun levels

A. marianae herrei "Butter Nut", high sun levels

A. marianae herrei "Red Coral", low sun levels

[iann]

You could fill a greenhouse with just one species! That does look like "Alveolatus".

[C And D]

Same plant after a couple days in the sun
A. marianae herrei "Red Coral"

Another one with a nice sun burn

A. marianae herrei "Raspberry Carbuncle"

Red Licorice on the left, Raspberry Carbuncle middle, Butter Nut right, for comparision
I can't tell the difference between this red licorice and raspberry carbuncle, we will have to grow them some more to see if they are different clones or not, I pretty sure they are.

A. marianae "Little Spheroid", small plants, the big ones have gotten a bit scraggly

[C And D]

Adromischus cooperi


A. marianae "Anticordatum"

[Styx&Bones]

Stunning photos as usual, Craig. I think I may have to pick up a cutting of the Adromischus 'Lime Drops' from you sometime.

- Kenny

[*Barracuda_52*]

WOW STUNNING succulents Craig.. Beautiful pics you took and i really love that Adromischus cooperi.

[Peterthecactusguy]

Cheiridopsis peculiaris, is very Perculiar
Yeah I'll say. The flowers look like Dandelions that grew from a deformed green blob of plastic or something!
Cool succulents, I don't have very many but they sure are neat

[C And D]

Dormant state of Mitrophyllum grande

[iann]

Talking of peculiar!

[CelticRose]

That's dormant? What does it look like when it's awake?

[C And D]

I will show more Adromischus soon.

But I must down load some Mesembs, since they are starting to stack up.


Lithops dorotheae

Lithops divergens v amethystina

Lithops divergens v divergens

Lithops otzeniana

Lithops lesliei 'luteoviridis'

Lithops salicola, reg. form and 'maculate'


Now for Conos
Conophytum lithopsoides v. koubergense

C. X marnierianum

C. x "Mabel's Milkman"


Nice clump of Argyroderma framesii


I'm really happy that I could grow these from seed that I got from Gary James
and now we have even more from seedlings growing
Euphorbia tulearensis


Denise grew this Euphorbia herrei from seed, nice plant!

[TimN]

Great looking plants! That big Lithops shot is action packed!