April 2014 - I like this plant because.....
- Mal H
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April 2014 - I like this plant because.....
I thought a broad category might invite something interesting/amusing/unusual etc.
Wirral (Chester and District branch) - Collection mostly South American cacti.
- DaveW
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Re: April 2014 - I like this plant because.....
I like this plant because it's one of the few cacti that's naturally etiolated in habitat!
Turbinicarpus subterraneus
Turbinicarpus subterraneus
Nottingham Branch BCSS. Joined the then NCSS in 1961, Membership number 11944. Cactus only collection.
- John Dos
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Re: April 2014 - I like this plant because.....
But that's a gorgeous plant!
Can't compete with such a beauty, but when I read the title I immediately thought of one of those plants which captured my attention (while all the other eight-year-old played football) and dragged me away in lost-islands-fantasies with these strange bladder cells sparkling like diamonds an rubies, an ephemeral hour and a half pleasure (when the teacher didn't mind) and a short lived annual like most of the botanic treasures that bordered the dry and dusty play grounds of those days when I still didn't know that I was to study botany.
Can't compete with such a beauty, but when I read the title I immediately thought of one of those plants which captured my attention (while all the other eight-year-old played football) and dragged me away in lost-islands-fantasies with these strange bladder cells sparkling like diamonds an rubies, an ephemeral hour and a half pleasure (when the teacher didn't mind) and a short lived annual like most of the botanic treasures that bordered the dry and dusty play grounds of those days when I still didn't know that I was to study botany.
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Re: April 2014 - I like this plant because.....
Quite some unusual plants John Dos. I like the close up!
I like this cactus because it was so ugly that I was already about to throw it away, but then it flowered the first time - and now I like it.
Echinocereus spinegemmatus
I like this cactus because it was so ugly that I was already about to throw it away, but then it flowered the first time - and now I like it.
Echinocereus spinegemmatus
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Re: April 2014 - I like this plant because.....
Muiria hortenseae. I like it because it is so small, blobly and fuzzy.
Re: April 2014 - I like this plant because.....
One night several years ago, while on a site visit to Southern Philippines, I dreamt of having this plant. The next day, we pass by a garden fair and saw this very plant so I bought it.
- Sylvia
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Re: April 2014 - I like this plant because.....
The Haworthia truncata I grew from Haworthia Society seed in 2007 and the Rechsteineria I bought in a Garden Centre in 2006.
Sylvia in Somerset growing cacti and succulents since 1977
- Phil_SK
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Re: April 2014 - I like this plant because.....
... it's properly spiny, like every cactus should be. It's one of my earlier flowering Lobivia, doing it's stuff when I appreciate it more. It keeps its flowers open until after I get home from work so I get to see them - photographed today at 6:20ish just after a dark-sky heavy shower.
L. maximiliana 'miniatiflora' KK813Phil Crewe, BCSS 38143. Mostly S. American cacti, esp. Lobivia, Sulcorebutia and little Opuntia
- Keith H
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Re: April 2014 - I like this plant because.....
Stenocactus hastatus (?)
Taken this afternoon, it is the first of my cacti to flower since they have been back in my care. When I left them back in 1985 it was in a 21/2 inch pot, this is the first time I have seen it flower.
Regards Keith.
BCSS # 50554
BCSS # 50554
- iann
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Re: April 2014 - I like this plant because.....
I like Echinocactus polycephalus because I gre it from seed and because it is SPINY.
Also it changes colour in the rain
Cheshire, UK