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OT: Strange succulent

17 years ago

Has anyone ever heard of something that looks like a cross between an epi and a prickly pear cactus? The main pad has a few short stiff spines but the growth coming from it looks like an epi with soft green spiky parts. It looks like on the edges some buds may be forming like how Christmas Cactus bloom. It might just be new leaves that are reddish color I can't tell yet. It was given to this lady as a Christmas Cactus but I know thats not what it is. Hummmm. Need to post a pic. My tadpole is a froglett now! She just has a tiny bit of tail left. I need to post some pics and maybe Daniella can identify it. I'll get them downloaded and post a pic of the plant. I got some cuttings of another kind of cactus looking thing that is tall sticks with flat sides and spines along the edges. I'll get some pics up later.

Comments (16)

  • 17 years ago

    come on with them there pix chick!! lol.
    hmmm...wonder what that succulent is?

  • 17 years ago

    Daniella my thought exactly when I clicked on it. I thought the 1st answer would have been Kristy again with the picture lol

    Not that I am not thrilled to see you :-)

    Lucy

  • 17 years ago

    lol Lucy!! I thought YOUR response was gonna be the pix!! :)
    Where is that woman??

  • 17 years ago

    roflmao

  • 17 years ago

    Funny you should mention succlents. I am not taking those on as a second habit. I have quickly aquired alot of differnt ones. Does anyone know a good book for me to learn about them?

  • 17 years ago

    Ok here is the first pics anyone know what these flowers are? Poppies? The little tube shaped ones are the same as the bush in the next pic don't know what that is either. Polly still had her tail in this pic. Pond frog in the last pic what is the green stuff? I thought it was parrot feather but its not.

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  • 17 years ago

    Here are the succulent pics and the spiney cuttings and polly with just a tiny tail. The last one is my funny plant in the clock vine family. Glad it lived through the winter.

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  • 17 years ago

    Found out what the green stuff in the pond is. Hornwort or coontail. It multiplies faster than rabbits,lol. Got some parrot feather to replace it.

  • 17 years ago

    F4F~ I have the same cactus as in your first pic and mine is 3' tall but I have noid for it and as for your 3rd pic that is what is called an african milk tree, just google it and you will find everything about it, mine is 5' tall.Love your little froggie too...............

    Rigo

  • 17 years ago

    Froggie is almost grown. The unknown is odd looking. I have no idea. The AMT will get huge and the last one looks like it might be Thunbergia grandiflora. I have a few thunbergias and that's my favorite. There was one at the Palm Beach Zoo that completely covered a huge stone wall. It was in full bloom, there must have been a couple thousand flowers.

  • 17 years ago

    Kristy pretty pictures.
    That frog looks dangerous lol
    I swear, if I knew plants and names...the first thought I had what the 1st 2 flowers look like is Annemones (sp) lol but then the second one looks like a Hellbores (again SP) I can say more as the years go by roflmao

    Lucy

  • 17 years ago

    Could the first pictures be ranunculus, and the 2nd set, 3rd pix be cuttings of the candelabra cactus? The latter cuttings look similar to my candelabra.

  • 17 years ago

    Hmmm, I planted ranuculus and anemones and peonies in that spot but I have no ideas which it is, lol. It pretty though. The foliage looks the same on the blue one as the pink and white one. As to the cacus I'll look up candelabra. I have never seen it other than the cuttings so I don't know what the plant will look like. Rigo can you post a pic of your grown plant? Does it flower? I hope the thunbergia is grandiflora that would be great. I got it in the season last year and only got a few blooms before it went dormant. My neighbor said it was hardy for him so I planted it outside and hoped for the best. My philodendron is coming back I planted in the front bed too. Miss B Havin is having her first bloom. I just got back from a party but I'll see if I can go out and get pic. These glasses I just got or the beer is making typing kind of difficult. I keep having to go back and correct myself, lol. Rigo the 3rd one you mean the cactus cuttings or the tube shaped flower shrub? Those flowers were kind of past their prime. They were dark purple before they started drying out. I wonder if they only bloom on old wood. Only one stem bloomed and all the new green wood doesn't look like it has any blooms setting. It was a cutting I took from somewhere last year.

  • 17 years ago

    He is a good frog as I have seen him eating bugs. I like him for that, lol. The firebelly toads we got named Wilburt and Dianne are funny. Dianne is a pig and eats all the crickets. Wilburt only eats every few days and Pollywog now a frog hasn't eaten any yet. While she thinks about it one of the others beats her to it. Dang Dianne ate 4 today. She is a bottomless pig, lol. They are easy to keep and much for entertaining that regular frogs. I have to do part water changes every couple days to keep their toxins from affecting the other tadpoles and Pollyfrog. Who is not a wog anymore, lol. Ok time for bed. I think I got the cactus Id's the first one is a brazilean prickly pear and the second is Euphorbia trigona. Any better ideas let me know the first one has sharp spines on the lower pad but the new growoth is soft spines like fake leaves. I'll pot up te cuttings in catcus mis tomorrow. Seems the safest medium until I am sure.

  • 17 years ago

    good to read that you are having so much fun :-)

  • 17 years ago

    Kristy, this is what my candelabra looks like. I don't know why I have it, because I don't even like cactus, LOL! Think I got a cutting at one of my gardening group's gathering. I stuck it in this pot and it has been there ever since. Rats, the pix is sidewards!
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