"Fat Plants" : cacti,succulents, caudiciforms, whatever..

[Maggi Young]

Not sure what to do with all of these.....

 ....well indeed, it's a prickly problem, Bob.


(Sorry, I couldn't help myself.....     )

[penstemon]

Not a pointless endeavor, that's for sure.

[Maggi Young]

 Touché.......

[penstemon]

I found this picture of Gymnocalycium baldianum; actual color of the flower.
Think the gymnocalyciums really prefer a cooler exposure than they get here. In other words they should be treated like alpine plants instead of desert plants.

[Maggi Young]

From Simon Goodwin's twitter page -pix  from the nursery at RBGSydney- Sydney Botanic Garden
 Gymnocalycium saglionis - giant chin cactus from Argentina


I know nothing about this plant - I just thought the flowers are very beautiful!

[johnw]

Quite frankly I had never seen a flower on Senecio rowleyanus before.  This flower's frgrance is very intense, even I can smell it 10ft away.  The bigger potted clumps are loaded with buds but this one is the first to open.

johnw

[penstemon]

Here's one of the annual, flowering stems of Pterocactus tuberosus rooting. (I'm not certain that the stems are annual in their native habitat, though I think they are, but they are certainly annual here. The flowering stems shrivel and fall off; the underground caudex remaining over the winter...hopefully...to provide new flowering stems next year. Fairly bizarre.)

[K-D Keller]

For me, the first cacti blossoms every year: Pediocactus simpsonii and Echinocereus viridiflorus.

[Maggi Young]

There is an identification query for you succulent plant enthusiasts, here :  http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=13087.0       

[johnw]

Friend says it looks like a juvenile Aloe ferox.  Johnw

[meanie]

Friend says it looks like a juvenile Aloe ferox.  Johnw

Thanks!

[Johan K.]

Pleiospilos nelii (1)

Rabiea albipuncta (2)

[ruweiss]

Pictures from last week:
Pediocactus knowltonii was all the winter in the unheated greenhouse.

[Johan K.]

Echinocereus triglochidiatus (1)

Echinofossulocactus (2)

Lophophora williamsii (3)

[krisderaeymaeker]

Nice cacti Johan !

Echinocereus coccineus  with his extremely beautiful flowers .....