Sempervivum and Jovibarba

[ruweiss]

More Sempervivums

[christian pfalz]

hi rudi, last photo on the left side, is this townsendia ?
cheers
chris

[Lori S.]

As if Sempervivum 'Oddity' wasn't peculiar enough already, a rosette that appears to lack the normal complement of chlorophyll has appeared this year.

[TheOnionMan]

As if Sempervivum 'Oddity' wasn't peculiar enough already, a rosette that appears to lack the normal complement of chlorophyll has appeared this year.

Wow, that's freaky.  If Sempervivum 'Oddity' wasn't odd enough (a hollow-tube-leafed manifestation), you have this weird chlorophyll-challenged variegate show up.  Such things have shown up in the past in Sempervivum, and many such mutations were found to be very weak growing.

[ruweiss]

hi rudi, last photo on the left side, is this townsendia ?
cheers
chris

Chris,
the plant is Aurinia rupestris, a Brassicaceae.

[christian pfalz]

rudi, thanks, i had a plant from t. eidmann, looks like this, but i´m not sure...perhaps a townsendia, mine is plant in trough too, since five or more years, and had never bloomed ...
cheers
chris

[ruweiss]

During a short visit to the Ligurian Alps we saw beautiful clumps of Sempervivum arachnoideum,
but a very sad view were these with Endophyllum sempervivii infested plants.

[Maggi Young]

Very interesting to see photos of the rust fungus Endophyllum sempervivii on the poor plants, Rudi.... I am lucky never to have seen this fungal infection in real life.... and I hope to keep it that way
The plant becomes quite unrecognisable with the fungus distorting it 

[christian pfalz]

hi, sempervivums in pots...just flowering...



cheers
chris

[cohan]

hi, sempervivums in pots...just flowering...
cheers
chris

no worry they wont have enough offsets to replace the flowering bodies

[christian pfalz]

 

[christian pfalz]

hello all, some semps on lava tufa....



kind regards
chris

[Lesley Cox]

They look great on the lava. Did you have to visit a volcano Chris, to get the lava?

[christian pfalz]

lesley, not far away from my home, there is a stone pit, with lava rocks...
cheers
chris

[Lesley Cox]

Lucky you.