Photo of Starfish Plant (Ceropegia gigantea) uploaded by Stush2019

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Location: Opp, AL  Z8b
Date: 2022-08-29
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2018-10-27
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2021-10-16
Location: all photos from my gardens
Date: 2018-08-27
Location: Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
Date: 2016-10-25
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: August 2013
Location: Kwajalein Marshall Islands
Date: 2000

Date: c. 1942
illustration from cover of the 1942 catalog, Johnson's Cactus Gar

Date: 2018-08-28
Photo by _Bleu_
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2021-10-04
Location: Desert Botanical Garden, Phoenix, Arizona
Date: 2016-11-12
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2018-10-07
Location: Houston, TX
Date: August 20, 2021
Location: all photos from my gardens
Date: 9-29-2018
how bizarre - 9 tentacles .... !
Location: South Bella Vista Drive, Tucson, AZ
Date: 2019-10-22
This African starfish flower snuck into our yard from our neighbo

Date: 2023-10-14
Location: Jakarta
Date: 2021-07-14
Location: Winter Springs, FL zone 9b
Date: 2022-07-22
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2021-10-09

Date: 2012-08-13
Entire plant with blooms opening.
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Date: 2023-10-14

Date: 2023-10-14
Location: South Bella Vista Drive, Tucson, AZ
Date: 2021-08-29
Flower with flies
Location: Florida
Date: 2022-09-16
Location: Jakarta
Date: 2022-04-10
These 2 plants were the same initially, left plant moved to a sha
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2018-10-08
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2021-10-16
First bloom of the season.
Location: In my garden, Falls Church, VA
Date: 2017-09-11
Location: Loki Schmidt Garten - Botanischer Garten der Universität Hamburg
Date: 2022-09-13

Date: 2023-10-14
Location: San Antonio Botanical Garden, San Antonio, Texas
Date: 2022-04-04
Location: Desert Botanical Garden Phoenix Arizona
Date: 2016-01-03
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2018-10-21
Location: Middle Tennessee
Date: 2012-10-11
Flies are attracted to this plant and pollinate the flowers

Date: 2012-08-11
This photo is two large pots of Stapelia gigantea plants.
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Location: Bryan, Tx
Date: 2020-10-03
Location: Baja California

Date: 2023-10-14
Photo by SongofJoy
Location: South Bella Vista Drive, Tucson, AZ
Date: 2023-05-29
Each flower produces a pair of pods that split open to release fi
Location: Naples, FL
Date: 2016-10-11
At the Naples Zoo
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date: 2021-07-08
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: fall 2011
Location: Ka'ena State Park Oahu Hawaii
Date: 2019-04-27
Location: Middle Tennessee
Date: 2012-10-11
Photo by pinkiris
Location: all photos from my gardens
Date: 2018-07-10
first bloom on it so far this year

Date: 2012-08-13
Single bloom
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Location: My garden in N E Pa. 
Date: 2012-06-05
Flower with pollinators.
Location: In my garden, Falls Church, VA
Date: 2016-08-24
Location: Winter Springs, FL zone 9b
Date: 2017-10-24
My first flower, too two years.
Location: Central Texas
Date: 2013-10-23
Location: Austin ,TX
Date: 2016-09-22
From bud to bloom was over two weeks
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2018-09-21
Location: Opp, AL  Z8b
Date: 2022-08-29
Reverse of center of bloom and petal
Photo by GrammaChar

Date: 2012-08-11
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Location: National Botanical Garden, DC, Virginia :) | May, 2022
Date: 2022-05-28

credit: Prenn
Location: Orangeburg, SC
Date: fall 2008
Location: My deck
Date: 2014-10-20
Location: Baja California
Date: 2017-01-01
Location: Naples, FL
Date: 2016-10-11
At the Naples Zoo
Location: National Botanical Garden (DC) | November 2022
Date: 2022-11-26
Location: San Antonio Botanical Garden, San Antonio, Texas
Date: 2022-04-04
Location: 98108
Date: 2013-03-21
Location: Marie Selby Botanical Gardens
Date: April 6 2022
Location: In my garden, Falls Church, VA
Date: 2017-06-01
Location: Youngsville, LA
Date: 2007-11-21
M3367S-4504  Full bloom
Location: all photos from my gardens
Date: 2018-08-01
Photo by Thumbelina
Location: Daytona Beach, Florida
Date: 2012-08-22

Photo Courtesy of Cape seed and Bulb.
  • Uploaded by Joy

Date: 2011-11-05
Detail showing flower pattern and 'hair'
Location: National Botanical Garden (DC) | November 2022
Date: 2022-11-26
Location: San Francisco Conservatory of Flowers
Location: Miami, FL
Location: Middle Tennessee
Date: 2012-10-02
Location: Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2011-11-10
  • Uploaded by Joy
Photo by ljones26
Location: My deck
Date: 2014-10-12
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2014-03-17
Seedlings are nearly 2 weeks old
Location: Houston Museum of Natural Science
Date: 2017-11-21
Photo by Plantomaniac08
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: 2005-08-15
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: San Antonio, TX
Date: Oct 5, 2005 9:47 AM
Photo by Gothicgardener
Location: Port Orange, Florida
Date: 2012-08-22 
Splashed with sand after a lot of rain. Photo taken at Sugar Mill

Date: 2005-10-13
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2013-12-03
Newly planted

Photo courtesy of Annie's Annuals and Perennials
Photo by ljones26
Location: Kalama, Wa.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2014-02-28
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2014-02-28
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2014-03-05
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2014-03-05
A tray of stapelia seedlings
Location: Atlanta BG
Date: Aug 16
Photo by ljones26
Location: arcadia, florida
Date: 2013-08-21
Location: MOBOT -   St Louis
Date: 2013-02-27
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: late fall
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
Date: late fall
  • Uploaded by Joy

From bud to bloom
Location: Plano, TX
Date: 2014-03-04
Took 5 days to germinate
Location: Miami, FL
Location: In my garden in Kalama, Wa.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Middle Tennessee
Date: 9/7/2011
Well rooted cuttings on their way to becoming mature plants

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