I spent my long youth going to Joshua Tree almost every weekend from Fall to Spring-Rock Climbing from 1975-1995 Did a bunch of first ascents and wrote a Bouldering Guide that included it. Hiked around every part of it, truly a wonderland Now I do club presentations on the Succulents of Joshua Tree ...

This one is around 20 years old This one is about 15 years old 8 years old??

Looks like a Monadenium guentheri

M. ritchiei have smaller leaves

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Early Spring Flowers Turbinicarpus pseudomacrochele IMG_1730.JPG Turbinicarpus pseudopectinatus hybrid IMG_1736.JPG Pelecyphora strobiliformis They never seem to flower at the same time if at all Any one know about adding flowering fertilizer to get more cactus flowers? IMG_1734.JPG Mammillaria spin...

I'm 65, and I plan on planting Ariocarpus seeds every year for the rest of my life.
Some I planted 20 years ago are bigger than I could ever imagined.
Some I planted 5 years ago are very nice sized.

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I would just rip them apart dry and clean off the roots best you can leave the main root intact I then like to let the plants rest unrooted a couple days or a week for the wounds to heal then pot up with new soil then wait a couple months before watering, since it's still Winter Lithops can take nor...

Beautiful plant
Yes, it looks like Huernia pillansii

The 2 brown middle ones are L. aucampiae
the brown on the right is L. hookeri
Bottom, L. karasmontana bella

and the top ones look like one of the many green forms of L. lesliei

The genus of Argyroderma are a baffling group They all have very distinctive cup flowers But there are so many different forms, from small clusters to fat singles Species names are hard to confirm, so many go as Argyoderma sp. They don't always flower, and the flowering season for me is from Sept to...

"I've lost so many, I don't want to talk about it" One thing good about growing plants, if you kill one, it's not the end of the world not like losing a pet dog, or even a lizard but you don't want a 1000 dogs, one dog is all you need More plants can be grown in time Here are my top 2 plan...

Perfect description of the plant
Thanks

This M. pectinifera was one of my favorite plants for many years
it rotted right after I transplanted into the pot shown in this photo
winter transplant-not recommended..

Early Winter Flowers New phone camera Lithops optica Rubra thumbnail_IMG_0591.jpg I post photos of this every year, so many flowers Gibbaeum dispar thumbnail_IMG_0595.jpg Jensenobrotrya lossowiana thumbnail_IMG_0598.jpg Weird fungus growth on these Albuca unifolia x scabrocostatum A spray of Physan ...