Colin

I'm afraid that plant's a real weed! It shoots its seeds everywhere, and soon you will have loads of them. That's what happened to me, anyway.

Now here's a nicer Dorstenia: Dorstenia ellenbeckiana. You can even see it shooting its seeds out.
[attachment 2529 Dorsteniaellenbeckiana.jpg]

I'm not really a Gymno expert, but I would go for a form of Gymnocalycium damsii, or if not, something closely related.

Neil Wrote:
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> got mine from here
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> chinsol
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> seem to remeber quite high postage costs tho


Strange, whenever I have seen Chinosol before, it was yellow, not purple, and called ChinOsol, not Chinsol...

Ian, using Cheshunt Compound is not a good idea, in my experience. It is pretty alkaline (conatining Ammonium salts), whereas most cacti and many succulents like quite acid conditions. I tried it once, and perhaps as you are alluding too, it may have killed more seedlings than the fungus it was supp...

Uhlig Kakteen (in Germany) sell it

http://www.uhlig-kakteen.com/accessories.html

and in general, they deliver to the UK (assuming Chinosol is OK to go through the post - I have bought books and plants from them in the past, but not Chinosol).

Colin

it's the above article which got me interested.

If anyone wants to see some pictures of these plants and the type, see

http://cacti-at.info/frameSimulate6.html

http://cacti-at.info/frameSimulate7.html

on Franz K?hhas' pages

Colin Walker Wrote: > Congrats on flowering this beast - you must be one > of a very few folk who've achieved this. Thanks, Colin. It is a really fantastic flower, even compared to other stapeliads, which on the whole show an amazing range of colours and shapes. Perhaps sticking it in a very bright ...

I keep mine in my office in work, where it is rarely below 20C (computers running all day and night), and water it once a month or so in winter.

This is after losing the one in my greenhouse - but which did flower for me before it expired.

Derek > I did see an Aloe like A. variegata in the veld > once just south of Aus in Namibia and it looked > pretty much just like the widespread A. variegata > in South Africa, a bit smaller perhaps, but > qualitatively the same. So a separate name is not > justified i.m..h.o. I defer to your vastly...

My Pterocactus tuberosus flowered one year, and I almost missed it - the flowers were dark brown - exactly the same colour as the stems...