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

[iann]

#2 grew in a batch of L. williamsii seedlings but appears instead to be L. fricii.  The body and flowers are quite distinct from its L. williamsii siblings.

[cohan]

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

Gerd

very nice! if you aren't going to have many, this is a good one to have! maybe this will be the year i start some conos from seed....

[iann]

I know people who have more plants of C. pellucidum than I have of all Conophytums put together

It isn't flowering now, is it?

[Gerdk]

I know people who have more plants of C. pellucidum than I have of all Conophytums put together

It isn't flowering now, is it?

Ian,
Yes, it flowers now indeed! Don't know why so early - perhaps because of a very hot summer here followed by a wetter periode now.

Gerd

[shelagh]

This isn't a thread I visit very often but today I needed to identify a plant found at the local garden centre this morning.  I thought it was a Cotyledon and on my Google search I came accross the Nikitskiy Botanical Garden in Yalta, it has a wonderful collection of photos by a young man named Peter Lapshin.  If you are interested in what claims to be the oldest Botanic Garden then I think you will enjoy it.  Sorry if I'm preaching to the converted but it was new to me.

Oh by the way the plant is Cotyledon undulata.

[Maggi Young]

Interesting place, Shelagh....new to me too.....
"The Nikitskiy Botanical Gardens - one of the oldest botanical gardens of the world, was founded in 1812.
This Botanical Gardens placed near Yalta town on the Crimea peninsula at the Black Sea, Ukraine
This garden has one of the largest in Europe herbarium, the oldest library in Crimea and a scientific museum. The collections of the Nikita Botanical Gardens include more than 50 thousand species, forms, sorts and hybrids of plants from many countries of the world. Its total area is 1100 hectares. There are 12 scientific departments in the structure of the Botanical garden. "

............here are two  links:
http://www.lapshin.org/nikita/index.htm


http://www.lapshin.org/nikita/list.htm

[shelagh]

Thanks Maggi, I wasn't sure how to do the links.

[pel1]

Hi,
Does anyone out there collect Tylecodons? If so I am keen to exchange cuttings, the species I already grow are ;

Bleckiae “Rosh Pinah ISI 1778”
Bodlyae “DT3623 Aucrabies”
Bucholzianus “Lau16706 Schasberg, Namibia”
Fragilis “Stanfontein”
Hirtifolius
Hirtifolius x Striatus
Paniculatus
Paniculatus “TS858a S.Steincopf”
Pygmaeus
Schaeferianus
Singularis
Striatus
Torulosus “SV54758 Pretoria BG”
Viridiflorus
Walichii


Any species not on my list would be welcome!

many thanks,
James

[Maggi Young]

Can't help you with the Tylecodon search , James, but for anyone else intriqued by these plants, this may be helpful :

    Cotyledon and Tylecodon
      by Ernst van Jaarsveld and Daryl Koutnik, is the first account to cover these closely related genera. Each species is described and illustrated with watercolour paintings and habitat photographs. The book covers their adaptation to arid environments, distribution, cultivation and ethnic uses, a historical review of botanical exploration and keys to simplify identification. Published by Umdaus Press, Pretoria (2004), 152 pages, hardcover ISBN: 1919766324.


 Some choices from AbeBooks:
http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?bt.x=24&bt.y=13&isbn=1919766324&sts=t

[cohan]

shelagh--i'm not sure if i have read about that garden, but i have looked at peter lapshin's photos, they are good references for several genera, such as succulent senecio...

maggi--i borrowed that book from the toronto c+s club, a nice one indeed!

james--i only have one tylecodon, which i lost the name of almost as soon as i got it..it just sort of survives, but i think its because i have it in terracotta, which i just cannot water enough for any plant.. your viridiflorus is lovely..

[krisderaeymaeker]

In autumn my Lithops-species are at there best !
They get only 4 or 5 times water in one year.In wintertime I keep them bonedry and so temperature could kept between 0 and 5 °C.

[Maggi Young]

In autumn my Lithops-species are at their best !
They get only 4 or 5 times water in one year.In wintertime I keep them bonedry and so temperature could kept between 0 and 5 °C.

 That is a great series of photos, Kris. I love these sunny flowers.

[angie]

I don't know how many Lithops that I have killed wish I could grow them.

Angie

[Maggi Young]

I don't know how many Lithops that I have killed wish I could grow them.

Angie

 Probably over-watered them, Angie.... that's how I killed mine, thirty years ago.

[krisderaeymaeker]

I don't know how many Lithops that I have killed wish I could grow them.
Angie

They need a very sunny position in a greenhouse Angie (no shading ). Mine are getting water once a month  in may ,june,july,august and september.
So only five times in a year ! In wintertime as I say  bonedry  ! Under this conditions they are quite easy !
The ones from the picture are selfsown.

From the same family ,this Conophytum