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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #210 on: July 14, 2010, 11:45:01 PM »
When grafts are put on cacti why are they those bright colours instead of green? and do the grafted parts flower at some stage?
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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #211 on: July 14, 2010, 11:50:35 PM »
Quote from: FrazerHenderson on July 10, 2010, 10:03:20 PM
cacti

Great redhead. Who needs a blonde or a brunette? :D

The white epiphyllums are very beautiful.
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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #212 on: July 15, 2010, 01:14:25 AM »
Quote from: Lesley Cox on July 14, 2010, 11:45:01 PM
When grafts are put on cacti why are they those bright colours instead of green? and do the grafted parts flower at some stage?

Lesley  - These are usually aberrant offsets that can only exist whilst still attached to the mother plant for sustenance.  I think it was the Japanese who first started grafting them on Epiphyllum for sale about 40+ years ago. Some wild yellows, oranges and reds but I can't recall any ever flowering but they surely must have the potential.

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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #213 on: July 15, 2010, 05:05:22 AM »
I don't really like them. They seem like some sort of un-natural carbuncle type of growth, such as a bad boil on the neck of a person. Doubtless many will disagree with me though. ::)
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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #214 on: July 15, 2010, 12:56:57 PM »
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Great redhead. Who needs a blonde or a brunette?
Funnily enough that's what I often tell Ian...... ;)

Maggi the Redhead!
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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #215 on: July 16, 2010, 08:45:52 AM »
knows maybe here anybody the name of this plant ?

The owner of the nursery told me it is a Portulaca ....but I'm not shure
Could it be a Crassula ?
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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #216 on: July 16, 2010, 01:11:25 PM »
Quote from: Hans J on July 16, 2010, 08:45:52 AM
The owner of the nursery told me it is a Portulaca ....but I'm not shure
Could it be a Crassula ?

Hans, believe in the nursery man!  :)

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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #217 on: July 16, 2010, 01:20:32 PM »
Gerd - it exist a Crassula portulacea ....

It is not P. grandiflora !!! the leaves are very different...
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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #218 on: July 16, 2010, 03:12:14 PM »
Quote from: Hans J on July 16, 2010, 01:20:32 PM
- it exist a Crassula portulacea ....



 But that plant is not your plant, Hans... the leaves are very different... ;)
Crassula portulacea has much larger leaves held in a different way and makes a shape like a little tree.
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« Reply #219 on: July 16, 2010, 03:17:50 PM »
Thank you Maggi - I dont know this plant ...I found only the name
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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #220 on: July 16, 2010, 03:24:27 PM »
Quote from: Hans J on July 16, 2010, 03:17:50 PM
Thank you Maggi - I dont know this plant ...I found only the name
Happy to help, Hans.... I grew this plant for many years... it was one of the first plants I ever had that was "mine" when I was a little girl! It never flowered, even when the plant was nearly 100cms high and wide!  :-X
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« Reply #221 on: July 16, 2010, 03:33:10 PM »
Maggi - now I believe what you mean  :D

We call this plant : Geldbaum ( money tree ) -a lot of people have it inside the house

Before some weeks I saw a gardening report ...this plant has white flowers !
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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #222 on: July 16, 2010, 09:11:13 PM »
Portulaca oleracea, a widespread weed in warm parts of the world.  The wild plant has smaller yellow flowers, but there are many cultivated forms with larger flowers and better colours like yours.
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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #223 on: July 16, 2010, 09:18:17 PM »
Thank you Iann !

I know it ....anybody knows this plants !
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Re: "Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..
« Reply #224 on: July 18, 2010, 12:10:18 PM »
Portulacas in varous colours - but I don't know which species originally - are grown here as bedding plants.
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