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

[Hans J]

here a other nice plant :

Borzicactus spec.

received as Hildewintera 

[cohan]

When grafts are put on cacti why are they those bright colours instead of green? and do the grafted parts flower at some stage?

as john has said, these are chlorophyll free, to low chlorophyll mutuations, some of which cannot survive without grafting, others that would grow more slowly, and since those monstrosities sell quite well, some normal plants are grafted just to expand the line!
certainly some of them can and do flower, i have seen some oddly coloured Gymnocalycium grafts flowering--but there are some natural species in this genus which can be quite red or purple, i don't recall whether i have seen any of the totally chlrophyll free forms flowering..

hans, glad you found a name--those are definitely portulaca flowers (wow!), very different from crassula
the borzicactus is very nice too, by any name--those seem to have been moved about a lot!

[Lesley Cox]

John and Cohan, thanks for those explanations. I can't say I like the grafted onesvery much but each to his own of course.

Of my tiny babies shown further back a couple are making new babies round their sides and one has what I hope may be two buds sprouting from the top. A bit soon to tell yet.

[krisderaeymaeker]

Flowering today :

Echinocereus bristolii subsp. floresii
Escobaria hesteri
Thelocactus hexaedrophorus
Gymnocactus viereckii
Coryphantha garesii
Coryphantha sulcata
Mammillaria microcarpa

[iann]

Here's an actual fat plant.  Avonia quinaria ssp alstonii has a true caudex although it is tiny.  The flowers opened in succession this year so never a spectacular display.  They only open for a few hours on one evening.

[Ragged Robin]

It may be fleeting and tiny but Oh what a pretty slim flower on your fat plant Iann 

[cohan]

kris--great plants, all nicely grown..
iann--those are plants i've long admired, though not grown yet..

[krisderaeymaeker]

kris--great plants, all nicely grown..

Thanks Cohan .This was my first hobby , I started to grow my first cacti in 1984 .
I hope you like also the next ones.
Mammillaria guelzowiana
Bartschella schumanii
Thelocactus bicolor  

[KentGardener]

I went to visit some people from my old BCSS group a couple of weeks ago - some random photographs of things that attracted my attention:

1 - Echinocereus Brandegii
2 - Dudleya Britonii
3 - Notocactus scopa v Ramosus
4 - Mammilaria schiedeana v plumosa
5 - Maihuenopsis clavaroides
6 - Euphorbia
7 - Euphorbia
8 - Euphorbia
9 - Hoodia gorgonii (god did it stink!)
10 - And not a photo taken on that day, but copied from a wonderful work that I was given on computer disk that Chris Moore wrote on Brachystelma, Ceropegia and Stapeliads before he died (if anyone is interested in these please get in touch),  Stapelianthus madagascariensis.

[Ragged Robin]

Intriguing plants John, Notocactus scopa v Ramosus is a fantastic - like an alien landscape 

[krisderaeymaeker]

I went to visit some people from my old BCSS group a couple of weeks ago - some random photographs of things that attracted my attention:
7 - Euphorbia

Good plants John ,picture 7 is not Euphorbia but this is Alluaudia montagnacei from Madagascar.

[cohan]

more beauties, kris, and beautiful shots--the Bartschella is my favourite of these, really like the little fat glaucous body;

john--those are all great specimens! definitely interested in those genera--you have the articles available, is that what you mean?

[KentGardener]

Hi Cohan

I have replied to you with more detail as a PM.

[iann]

A different sort of fat plant.  Fat roots and even fatter bodies   Three kinds of Lophophora.

[Gerdk]

Iann, a nice flowering Lophophora - is No. 2 'williamsii' also?

On this occasion I add a pic of Conophytum pellucidum - one of my few fat indoors plants.

Gerd