What's the T stand for. please, bouldergrower?

Titanopsis

http://www.cactus-art.biz/schede/TITANOPSIS/Titanopsis_calcarea/Titanopsis_calcarea/Titanopsis_calcarea.htm

Very nice! Always admire your square pot
arrangement of succs, and how you can keep them healthy and happy.

I too got a Titanopsis recently and so far
it's looking swell. Sad that I missed out on the blooms though.
It is T. hugo-schlechteri

David
Nice color!

@Rina thanks! Good thing about Titanopsis is that they don't etiolate like most mesembs, I hope my light condition can keep its colour!

Boulder I'm such a fan of your plantings as well. Are they bonsai pots?

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Thanks
for the compliment. I really don’t have much room for plants and these
pots are an efficient use of a small space. They are Rectangular Plastic Bonsai Training Pots 10.5”x7.75”x3.5” that
I buy from takashima_bonsai on eBay. I
also get the Plastic Humidity/Drip Tray 10.25”x8,25”x0.75” to go with them.

Bouldergrower - What do you think about Pleiospillos compactus ssp. canus?

I was actually going to order a Pleiospillos simulans earlier in the year and yours looks a bit different. Of course the seller I was looking at could have been mistaken (they are not always accurate in naming).

Just the leaves don't seem as thick/keeled as simulans and some of the leaves have an almost broad-head arrow-like shape. Sadly not many well documented photos of Pleiospillos species on the internet.

I am pretty sure it was labeled Pleiospilos simulans. This is a better photo

The problem was trying to remember which of the two similar looking ones in the pot it was. The one to the upper left in my previous photo must be the one that was labeled gasteria glomerata.

The sun sets and this pops open.

Bouldergrower - Thanks for the additional photo.

Just curious, do the leaves shrivel/shrink much when it needs water? Or do they look relatively the same as with nelii? To me, this was a bit of a drawback (and why I didn't end up trying to get one) because it would be harder to tell when it needs watering.

For sure I'm on board with it being Pleiospilos simulans. Mesa Gardens has a couple described on their seedlist as follows:

• 1835-simulans wide flat gaping leaf pair

• 1835.06-simulans Kendrew, thick broad gaping leaves

• 1835.08-simulans Klipplaat, best form we have

• 1835.09-simulans near Miller, not very flat

• 1835.1-simulans Teasdale, gaping leaves flatten with age

• 1836-simulans Pearston, fat open mouthed clams

So definitely there are some regional variations within the simulans species. For sure yours is not 1835.06 or 1835.08. Maybe 1836 simulans Pearson?

• http://public.fotki.com/Grootscholten/plant-collections/mesembs/pleiospilos-simulan.html
• http://www.sukulentyhusner.cz/album/fotogalerie/pleospilos-simulans-pearston-jpg/
• http://grootscholten.fotki.com/plant-collections/mesembs/pleiospilos-simulan.html

As for your other plants (in case you wanted to discuss):

• Upper left plant is definitely Gasteria glomerata. I have a similar one.
• Titanopsis is probably calcarea. Titanopsis is another group of Mesembs that is a bit of a mess... so I'm never 100% sure about the official names of those.
• Faucaria is candida (white flowers) or felina (yellow flowers)?

I water house plants once a week. A couple of plants I water once every two weeks. This pot of succulents gets dunked in a sink full of water only when a popsicle stick stuck to the bottom of the pot comes out completely dry...no damp peat moss adheres to the stick. The leaves never look shriveled.

The Faucaria has never bloomed.

I only have two pots of succulents. I gave the others to grandchildren. The space is now occupied with Adeniums which bloomed this year and are interesting but somewhat difficult to grow well.

Thanks for the detailed info! And your sunset flowering photo is fantastic.

If I have the opportunity again to get a simulans (or non-nelii species), I might go for it!

Bouldergrower - Today I managed to get a simulans! It came with a label from the grower. The width of the plant is 5" (for the lower leaves):

Kevin,

Those are not run-of-the-mill Mesembs. Where are you getting them (especially at this time of the year!)?

Jeff - A local exotic orchid grower just started supplying a local nursery with many unusual succulents. They are apparently getting some from Taiwan? It was hard to only get two new plants!

The other one I got was this nice sized Faucaria tuberculosa:

I visit the place fairly often and like to chat with one of the ladies that works there. She saves me little 2.5" plastic pots and gives them to me for free.

Wasn't planning on getting anything as big as these, but I'm finding ways to make space for new additions. =)

Nice plants indeed! My two local greenhouses are both shut down for major renovations right now, I am in plant-shopping withdrawal!