I think this plant Colin posted when he visited a few weeks ago, now in flower
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Lastly not a succulent but Titan arum or the corpse flower (smells) which we photographed at 12pm, at 3pm it opened so we missed it by 3 hours unfortunately - see kew gardens website
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Interesting stuff - freaky Melo and that Arum would be something to see. It's a bit hard to tell from the pic, but how big is the arum/pot ?
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Here's one of me standing by it reading the pamphlet about it, so the flower without the pot is over 6 feet.
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Wow , Lovely pics.
The Arum picture is very deceiving, it's enormouse!!.
I like the Euphorbia & would love a piece of that kleinia, wot lovely markings, it reminds me of my senecio deflersii but with scribble on
The Arum picture is very deceiving, it's enormouse!!.
I like the Euphorbia & would love a piece of that kleinia, wot lovely markings, it reminds me of my senecio deflersii but with scribble on
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Hi Andrew,
Excellent pics. Glad Harrow branch had a good trip.
The plant could well be what I showed back in early April just starting to flower. If so, then it's Aeonium undulatum.
Excellent pics. Glad Harrow branch had a good trip.
The plant could well be what I showed back in early April just starting to flower. If so, then it's Aeonium undulatum.
Cheers,
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Thanks Andrew
it's always fascinating to see 'behind the scenes'
Steve
it's always fascinating to see 'behind the scenes'
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Re: photos from kew private collection
Great photos! Sounds like it was a great day out.
Do I spot Apicra in that second pic?
Wow.. what a lot of cacti.. a sea of them! I'd spend all day looking at them. There are some really enormous ones.
That Kleinia is really cool - it's taken the eyeliner pencil and drawn itself some spikes, to fit in with the neighbours.
Andrew, maybe it's a good thing that you were not there when the huge smelly flower opened.
Do I spot Apicra in that second pic?
Wow.. what a lot of cacti.. a sea of them! I'd spend all day looking at them. There are some really enormous ones.
That Kleinia is really cool - it's taken the eyeliner pencil and drawn itself some spikes, to fit in with the neighbours.
Andrew, maybe it's a good thing that you were not there when the huge smelly flower opened.
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Kleinias, aka Senecios :D
As I understand it, these Kleinias are now lumped into Senecio, but maybe not at Kew??? So this could be called Senecio pendulus. I don't grow this one, but I do have Senecio hebdingii, S.mweroensis ssp saginatus (now in bud for the tirst time), S.stapeliiformis, and the well-known Senecio articulatus "Candle Plant".
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Lithops, Haworthia, Adromischus, other south African succulents including Ceropegia and some Crassula.
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Hi Andrew,
you were quick
I only managed to quickly look at my pics last night, too exhausted to do any more... we stayed in the gardens until nearly closing time (7PM). I was a great day out, wasn't it?
you were quick
I only managed to quickly look at my pics last night, too exhausted to do any more... we stayed in the gardens until nearly closing time (7PM). I was a great day out, wasn't it?