Totally OT, but: found this in a compost pile...looks really good! I remember throwing many small pieces of Kalanchoe beharensis :

Jeff, I'm thinking the Copiapoa will actually get fairly big; in about 30 years.

Does Anyone here have a Female Crown of Thorns?

I've been Studying My Flowerds and STILL Can't Make My mind up whether it's Male for Female or Can They Grow Both Types of Flowes?

Thanks

Would LOVE Seeds to Try and Grow....

GREAT looking everyone. Yet another thread that has enabled me before I even look at every picture. Thank you for the nice pics all.

Mike

Not succulent - Just a bonus pic:

Stinky for some,delicious for others(the fly in this case)

Ninecrow, each individual flower of CoT has two bracts, the usually red “petals”. Between those two bracts are one female flower and several male flowers. These flowers do not have petals, they are reduced to only the reproductive parts. A bit simplified: the female flower only consists of the stigma, the male flowers consist of only the anthers. The red bracts, actually specialized leaves, take over the function of attracting pollinators, like the petals of a regular flower.

The female flower, the stigma, matures first, soon after the red bracts start to open and before they are fully open. At that point it can be pollinated. After several days the female anthers grow out and become visible. In time they burst, and the yellow pollen becomes visible.

So you would have to pollinate a just opening flower with pollen from an older flower. It seems that some cultivars of CoT consist only of two bracts, with nothing in the centre. In that case of course you will never get seeds ;-).

Rina, mine are blooming too. I have them in the ground. They are so dainty!

I have a lovely Aloe deltoideodonta var candicans that our friend Hoovb sent to me. I 'think' I have the id correct, but it may be var. fallax. Of course, I lost the email with the id in it.

I love the delicate yellow in the flowers.

Dinie

Are they overwintering outside? I just bought bulbs in Spring, and am not sure if they will make it here. They are in pots for now.

Rina, mine have been outside for 3-4 years, and they are doing well with good drainage. I also have C. coum. They are borderline hardy here, so I don’t know if they would survive outside for you. Excellent drainage and reliable snow cover might make the difference.

And at last, after keeping me on tenterhooks for weeks: Stapelia gigantea.

Truly gigantic flower, poopy smell...

Wow Mike, gorgeous. So many blooms!

Gdinieontarioz, what a beauty there too. Thank you.

3 stink flowers in one day.

Huernia procumbens (sorry about photo quality)

Huernia bayeri

Stapelia hirsuta - petals reflexed but quite fuzzy!

Great flowers, Laura. Hirsuta is on my wish list!

Notolover, Willadean is a beautiful bloom!

Mike, your cacti is WICKED AWESOME x 8!!! Congrats.... well done :) Hrmmm now I want a trumpet vine, too, lol! So pretty and tropical looking.

Ceropegia

Variegated Ceropegia

-Nancy

I should have bought longimamma instead...

Found a very nice surprise in the greenhouse today, couldn't be happier! (Me that is ;-) )

Those remind me of barnacles, Conny. :-)

Faucaria candida

I picked up this Faucaria today, just because it was in flower (the ones I already had are not)

Gymnocalycium mihanovichii

Yet another Gymnocalycium.

Parodia mammulosa ssp. brasiliensis

Laura, very nice asclepiads!!

I finally get to contribute! I am not the best at getting my plants to flower.

Fockea capensis

Wow, nice one again Wendy!

More common stuff here with Crassula capitella corymbulosa (or is it thyrsiflora or...? I am getting confused with recent forum comments on this one) flirting with Euphorbia mammillaria variegate (Not trying to crosspollinate, they just like each other :).

Pleiospilos nellii

Still sending out blooms ...

Having a tough time catching these four fully open!

And a very simple but interesting one: Dorstenia foetida var foetida

A few just bloomed today trying to get my attention as I was admiring others at the San Jose Show...

Melocactus matanzanus

I cheated and put this one under lights due to the rain outside, haha.

I have a grafted desert rose that has really struggled through the years. I think it was diseased when I purchased it - gnarly misshapen leaves and mottled coloring. Even tho all my attempts at a cure or treatment have failed, I have kept it.

Hmmm. I have also bought a grafted adenium, and it also has curled leaves. No discoloration(at least the leaf color is healthy). Had mealybugs and ive gotten rid of those, repotted it, but it still hasnt recovered....

Huernia thuretii, I think.

Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus var. albiflorus

Another Adenium flowering today...

Meet 'Miss Universe'

Giant squill, Urginia maritima

(OK it’s a bulb not a succulent, but it likes extreme succulent culture, and it’s the first year it’s bloomed for me so I’m excited). In a 20” pot.

Sara

Nice! Just read about it - some interesting facts :)

Dinie

Are you shopping for new plants?

Rina, I am always shopping for new plants ;-). I have had the ariocarpus for more than a year now, but I did get nice plants at Crystal Star two weeks ago.

Gdinie, is there any chance your plant is Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus v. elephantidens? Your nice plant is quite large for the regular A.k.. Although there are many gradations of pink to white flowers in the species, the A.k.v. albiflorus would normally be almost pure white.

Aloebot, good questions. I have wondered about the colour myself. I now realize that my picture shows the plant much larger than it is in reality. I have seen A. k. elephantidens, and it is definitely not that. The tubercles are actually very small and dainty, see the new picture with measuring tape. The albiflorus form is described as smaller than regular, and I think that describes it well. The colour today is lighter than when the flower first opened, and several sources mention almost white to light pink flowers, but I am sure there is a lot of variation in the colour, and where do you draw the line? I got it from an old, reputable grower in Holland. His stock picture for albiflorus shows a much lighter bloom, but the flowers of the other forms of A. k. are much darker than mine. It was in bloom when I bought it, and when he handled it, he did not say the tag was wrong. I think I will settle on A. k. albiflorus sensu lato ;-).

These are my blooms from September... my plants were going crazy (it's spring where I am)...

Quick silver (Kalanchoe pumila)

Kalanchoe blossfeldiana (?)

Not sure of the name of the succulent that these flowers are growing from, but they're pretty

euphorbia globosa

Since there isn’t an October blooms thread, I’ll add these here.

There is October 2018 Blooms thread...HERE IT IS :)

I searched and did not see that.