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Titanopsis calcarea flowering frenzy!! Different lighting. A big one Titanopsis fulleri
Never stays as compact, and a little more difficult.

Interesting. My T. fulleri never flower until about April. T. calcarea is raring to go, but there hasn't been any sun since September ...

Wow that Titanopsis calcarea is stunning

I have more Titanopsis plants in Bud.
I'm not sure when my fulleri regularly flowers, forgot to notice the month.
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I always say that I have plants in flower every day of the year, and Christmas and New Years were no exception.

I tried to get this plant before, and every time I got one it had the normal purple flower
Finally, the ISI was offering them, so I picked up 2 of them,
Cheiridopsis speciosa What do you get when you combine these 2 Acrodons together??
Acrodon purpureostylus & Acrodon bellidiflorus
You get a sprawling creeper with a 10% better flower.
I threw the hybrid seed in our garden and we got a bunch of them.
Not sure what I'm going to do with them, I can't sell the regular Acrodons. Love this little clumper, it would make a fine mat for a miniature Rock Garden in a Pot.
Antimima evoluta
It already flowered this year, and I got fruit!

Craig beautiful plants as always....!!! Will you be offering Antimima evoluta for sale this Spring? Been looking for this one for awhile, plmk

Funny you should ask... I took the photo ....
then cut up the 2 plants into a Big bunch of cuttings to root.
They should be ready this Spring.

Some more Conos

More varieties Bill Hagblom hybrid of C. minimum v wittebergense x ficiforme
there are about 10 good clones, I threw a couple away since they had no redeeming qualities
This one has nice lines. another photo of this really good clone,
with enhanced colors
I'm not sure if this is a hybrid or a good species
No other species have similar ridges
C. obcordellum ceresianum in the back This plant has been perplexing me, I missed it flowers, so the mystery goes on
Is it an obvious skinny C. cubicum? or C. ectypum subsp. cruciatum
It grows and looks different than my normal cubicum Conophytum obcordellum ursprungianum
Lokenburg I've found that you need to give the Conos extra strong light as they initially develop in the Fall if you want bold colors and lines,
otherwise no amount of intense light later in the season will bring out the same colors, they stay the same until they start to go dormant

C And D wrote:Funny you should ask... I took the photo ....
then cut up the 2 plants into a Big bunch of cuttings to root.
They should be ready this Spring.

Looking forward to seeing those for sale in the Spring! I've alway wanted one but couldn't find one for sale.

Looks like C. cubicum. It has dots. C. ectypum has a mottled appearance, with a sort of reticulated pattern in ssp cruciatum. I'd guess there are differences in the flower structure also since they're in separation sections, but I don't know what those differences might be.

Probably is a C. cubicum, since the dead flower remains look like the long skinny flowers of cubicum
I will have to watch for flowers next fall.
It looked more shrunken and purple last year, when I was first questioning the name.

Here is a cute little thing, it doesn't have the purple flowers like the photo in the Steven Hammer book
even though Steven gave me the plant, maybe the flowers turn purple with age under the right conditions
C. pellucidum lilianum This species need to be entered into the Succulent Guide.

My Trichodiadema fergusoniae are doing good this year, lots of flowers on lots of different plants
So I will have seeds for you later this year Aiko

I planted this about 3 years ago with the tape holding up a couple inches of dirt so the
tuberous roots will fatten up. I probably should have waited a couple more years,
but I cut it off anyway
I will clean the roots up and stage it better,
or wrap it back up for some more years. Glottiphyllum difforme is a neat plant
it has asymmetrical leaves with random teeth and protrusions
there are many different forms of the species, big and little, knobby or toothy This Gibbaeum is probably puts on the best annual flower show of any Gibbaeum, and is the most durable.
Gibbaeum dispar This neat Namaquanthus vanheerdei flower bud caught my eye while doing my daily wanders

C And D wrote: So I will have seeds for you later this year Aiko

How thoughtful of you! Thanks!

C. pellucidum ssp lilianum can have white or purple flowers. I'm not sure if it is just random, but I think the ones in cultivation are all from the same collection.

Here are a couple good Othonnas I haven't posted yet.

Othonna euphorbioides
The flowers on this species are very small and I haven't been able to get any seed yet,
even though I have 5 plants now
I got this one from Bill Hagblom 3 years ago
It's the biggest one, they are slow growers Othonna lepidocaulis
I have 4 of these now, they are slow as well.
I hope to get seeds soon. The scales are distinctive Typical Othonna flowers

Othonna euphorbioides is a really nice plant. I have bought one at ELK in Belgium over a year ago, and it is one of my most favourite plants.