Repliesmesembs (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: New MammillariaAnd then you are rewarded with flowers: they don't really flower indoorsmesembs (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: New MammillariaSo how did you finally stop killing cacti?hive-183841 (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: New MammillariaThere really isn't a good solution unless you can find something tough and smooth (and inflexible)hive-183841 (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: New MammillariaTongs or leather welding gloves?hive-183841 (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: New MammillariaThat is a beauty! Cacti are like lithops haha: you can never have just onehive-183841 (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: Crassula swaziensisSwaziensis flowers are nothing like the Jade-type flowers: they are born in little bunches on stalkshive-183841 (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: Crassula swaziensisThey will look very good in a rockerykuhle (59)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: Crassula swaziensisThey are almost like a miniature form of Cotyledon orbiculata although of course Cotyledon flowers are very different and designed for sunbirdshive-183841 (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: Crassula swaziensisYes it is silly. The form with the pubescent leaves is low-growing, a little like Adromischus umbraticolahive-183841 (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: Crassula swaziensisI think the redder smooth leaved form is called "money maker"hive-183841 (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: More crassulasIt's interesting to see the similarity of form between muscosa and lanceolata. Muscosa is native to the Eastern Cape and this is a local endemic for youhive-183841 (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: More crassulasThat tiny little lanceolate is so cute yet vulnerable looking, it's amazing it survives at allhive-183841 (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: More Crassula flowersThey are not on the same level as slugs and snails, that's for sure. The tunnelling is weird but okhive-183841 (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: More Crassula flowersPollinates one species, feeds off another. I hope that you don't kill themmesembs (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: More Crassula flowersHere's the culpritmesembs (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: More Crassula flowersIt seems that the flowers are bee, moth and butterfly pollinated. Then there's also a butterfly larvae that feeds on the leaves of all crassulaceaemesembs (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: More Crassula flowersAll with very similar floral structurekuhle (59)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: More Crassula flowersThe diversity of mesembs are fascinating but they are also quite clearly relatedmesembs (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: More Crassula flowersSeems clear to me. Crassulaceae as a whole is huge and just in South Africa we get Adromischus, Cotyledon, Crassula, Kalanchoe, and Tylecodon. Then the huge diversity within Crassula, with the…mesembs (56)in hive-183841 • last yearRE: More Crassula flowersThese flowers seem structurally similar to each other but not much to the jade-types you posted yesterday
