My Asclepiads and some other weird stuff

atropos

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Here are a few {D pictures of my plant collection. Mainly Stapelia, Huernia and Ceropegia.

First some pictures of plants which are blooming at the moment, a lot more to come :drool:

Huernia booleana with seedpods



Stapelia hirsuta with seedpods



Huernia pendurata



Ceropegia stapeliiformis, very nice colour variaty







Ceropegia sp. don't know what it is, it's growing in the same pot as the plant above, could be a hybrid. But still very nice



Ceropegia stapeliiformis ssp. "Serpentina"





Encyclia orchid I bought today



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And now some pictures of last year.

Stapelia gettleffii









Ceropegia sandersonii hybrid



Huernia macrocarpa yellow and red



Huernia quinta RSA locality





Huernia procumbens



Huernia longituba



Echidnopsis repens



Quaqua mammillaris



Frerea indica



Ceropegia hybrid







Larryleachia picta last year



This year



Stapelianthus decaryi



Huernia booleana



Duvalia sp.



Stapelia hirsuta



5 minutes later





Orbea hadimelicolea





Stapelia gigantea



Stapelia grandiflora





Stultitia decariy



Ceropegia dichotoma

 

moose35

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awesome plants.

some of those flowers are amazing


thanks for sharing



moose
 

atropos

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And hopefully many many more species blooming this year. Have around 50-60 species.
 

jt39565

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Wow ! I am as impressed with your plants as I am with most peoples T collections ( that's meant to be a compliment)
I really like the Stapelia grandiflora.
 

Tim Benzedrine

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Very cool. I've always wanted a blooming Stapelia, but never had any luck with them.
 

atropos

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Sunlight is most important and for many species a cool period in winter. But many of the bigger Stapelia species are quite easy in the windowsill.

Stapelia gigantea is really easy, big and a bit smelly :evil: Do you have a window towards the south? Without central heating would be perfect. Over here in the Netherlands, S. gigantea is doing great, so in most parts of the US it should do perfect. But there are many more species which do great in your windowsill. Send me a PM and I can see what species you could keep.

It's so great to open your greenhouse and see a swarm of flies and the smell of a dead animal which baked in the sun for 3 weeks in a puddle of water {D

Also have some Aroids (Amorphophallus konjac), flower about 1,5 meters high and smells like a dead horse. My bulbs are still small, so will take about 2 years untill I will have a flower.
 

Galapoheros

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:eek: That was great! You have my dreamgeenhouse. I have the same Duvalia sp. btw, are you not sure what it is? It blooms but I've never been able to get seeds from it, do you know a trick there?
 

pavel

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Sweet collection! I currently only have Huernia zebrina and Huernia schneideriana. So many plants, so little space.
 
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