Pachypodium baronii

Pachypodium baronii buds. Pachypodium baronii flowers nine days later. Pachypodiums are a member of the family apocynaceae and are considered a caudiciform, a fat plant, because they have developed a fat water retaining base, trunk, or root for storing water during...

Cactus Do Need Water

If depriving cactus of light is the worst thing you can do to it, not watering it is the second worst. For the uninitiated, I think this is the way the reasoning goes: cactus live in the desert; deserts are dry; therefore this cactus can stay dry and doesn’t need...

Mammillaria

Mammillaria. One of my many unidentified mammillarias. Like most of them, this one is making a halo of blooms.

Euphorbias

I have not been able to identify the variety of either of these euphorbias. Their stems are similar, but the one, as you can see, does not have the flat, fleshy leaves that the other one does. And those little pink things on both are flowers, believe it or not! While...

Recent Comments