I woke up this morning intending to go to the local flea market to look for taps for the kitchen but it's been rainy and the market is open-air so there weren't many traders and I couldn't find any taps. The bad weather didn't deter the plant sellers though so I came home with new succulents instead.
Katia investigates
Lewisiana species, native to the Northwest Pacific area of the USA was named after the explorer Lewis, of Lewis and Clark fame. A close-up of the flowers:
Although labelled as "full sun" in their country of origin, these will need shade in my climate. But I can forget to water them and that's handy.
I also got a plant I have been looking for for a while: Haworthiopsis limifolia ubomboensis.
Yes, that is a mouthful but all you need to know is that it's a variant of Fairy Washboards that comes from the Ubombo mountains in Swaziland. This is the only one of the species that doesn't look like a washboard although all of the others do. Most people know these "miniature aloes" as Haworthia because they have small white flowers, unlike the large red flowers of the Aloe family. In the age of genetic sequencing, the Haworthia that are mostly found in the Eastern side of Southern Africa were renamed Haworthiopsis because they were considered to have sufficient genetic variation to the plants found mainly on the Western side. It's also true that these plants cannot easily by hybridised whereas they hybridise more readily with other species that don't appear related, such as Gasteria
Fairy washboards show huge variation as you can see, these are limifolia variant limifolia:
This is limifolia variant striata, as you can see, variations in the growth form and colours here too
If you've read this far, you may ask yourself why have so many different kinds. The answer to that is mainly that you can never have just one. But also that I want to do a little hybridisation of my own. Although most people know and like Haworthia hybrids, Haworthiopsis are extremely attractive to my eyes.
Any Sunday you get new plants is a beautiful Sunday in my world
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Hello beautiful I would be unable to remember so many names, that kitten also likes plants like mine hehe.
I guess your weather is extreme too hot (I love the heat) I went through my city on a Sunday and I took you to the flower market hehe
Happy Thursday
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The cat seems to be plant expert!!
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of course!
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wonderful. even the feline friend like to smell the flowers.
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Yes, she does quality control
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Better than this lady who watered a fake plant for years.
https://www.msn.com/en-sg/news/offbeat/dedicated-plant-owner-waters-her-perfect-succulent-every-day-for-two-years-before-realising-its-fake/ar-BB10E51n?ocid=spartanntp
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Oh dear. Did she never realise that plants grow and produce new leaves 🤦♀️
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apparently, she's not the only one.
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I like the symmetrical patterns of the succulents. To me, they are very pleasant to look at.
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Exactly that!
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It's nice to see the new plants that you acquired. I hope that you will be able to get completely new species that will please your environment with their own forms.
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just yesterday the lewisias arrived at the nursery where I work, tomorrow I'll take a picture, they are all in bloom! I almost buy one ...
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Please do take pictures! I didn't see them before
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Hi @nikv
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ooh, nice!
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simply beautiful. meowwww!
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😻😻😻
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Ha! I got new fern today :D
Kitty inspection must be done!
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But of course! Show us your fern!
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It is nothing pretty yet. Just got a little segment from the mother plant. Few leaves only.
Its something like Adiantum capillus or very close. There is so many looking alike..
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Ooh, nice, I love maidenhair ferns
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Yea they are super pretty :)
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