February 2022 Photography


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This month's theme is "Smallest Plants", as it's the shortest month of the year..

We encourage you to like the picture(s) you like the most. You can like your favorite, or if you like all of the pictures, like all of them! I highly encourage you to give pictures Acorns.

This theme will end at the end of February, and a new one will be up in March.

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Evan.

"We"? There's more than one of you? Good Grief!

Excluding a few propagating pups/cuttings, my smallest plants are these two Haworthias.


The cooperi has grown, it was only slightly larger than the herbacea when I got it in October 2020.

This little guy was happy in the shade of another plant. Didn't think about that when I pulled out the larger plant. It fried.

DaisyI said:"We"? There's more than one of you? Good Grief!

Linguistically, that is known as the "Royal We."
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DaisyI said:"We"? There's more than one of you? Good Grief!

Clones, to make propagating and plant maintenance more efficient and faster.

Uh, um, true. There seems to be a never ending list of things that needs to get repotted.

Aeonium2003 said:Uh, um, true. There seems to be a never ending list of things that needs to get repotted.

And the clones can help you pack stuff to move too!

It's too bad I can't clone my car....

@purpleinopp I think this is a thread for you.

My smallest cactus (excluding juveniles) is this Mammillaria, which is genuinely growing sideways, not rotting and falling over. That is a 4 inch pot.


Most of the small Euphorbias around here are volunteers, like this leuconeura (growing alongside a variegated mammillaris)


This looks like a bupleurifolia hybrid (alongside 'Doris Taylor')


My smallest pot is this 2" pot, and I'm going to get that Dudleya into a 4" pot ASAP.


Smallest aloe is descoingsii, smallest Echeveria is this setosa (4" pots)



Smallest rosette of the fat-leaved succulents (not counting burrito) is this 'Jet Beads' (also 4" pot)


Smallest agave (Shoji Raijin, 8" pot) and smallest Haworthia (a small retusa clone, 6" pot).



Smallest Aeonium leaves, this a fall propagation which started with a single head (4" pot)

Baja_Costero said:My smallest cactus (excluding juveniles) is this Mammillaria, which is genuinely growing sideways, not rotting and falling over. That is a 4 inch pot.

Why is it doing that? Did it get injured on the side? You post a lot of great photos and your plants don't normally exhibit this trait.

I'm not sure there's anything wrong with it, though I confess I don't know what caused it to grow that way. It sort of gradually turned, rather than falling over all at once.

By far my smallest adult plant: Drimia acarophylla, the Dog Tick plant because the leaves are the size of dog ticks. It grew 1 leaf last year so maybe another this year? This could also be the world's most exciting plant.

DaisyI said:By far my smallest adult plant: Drimia acarophylla, the Dog Tick plant because the leaves are the size of dog ticks. It grew 1 leaf last year so maybe another this year? This could also be the world's most exciting plant.

Look like little balls of jelly or some fancy dessert

From the side, its kind of stretched teardrop shaped but its difficult to see from the side because it wants to have the bulb buried. When I was checking my spelling, I actually found a couple photos I posted here in the Cactus Forum but hadn't put in the database. I may have to fix that...

Dudleya seedlings on the balcony ... this pot in nearly day-long sun.



A cropped version showing cellular detail on a seed leaf.



The biggest plant is 16mm (about 2/3 of an inch) across.

The seeds are tiny, but the young seedlings make up for that by growing fast.

They do seem to grow fast. Faster than Aeoniums. Just curious, but how old is the seedling shown above?

They mostly sprouted around the time of the first rains, so late December or maybe a few weeks sooner. So maybe 8 weeks max?

Some hybrid lampranthus seedlings. I can't remember the particular cross.

Just FYI, still looking for ideas for April 2022. please and

I'm thinking it was light purple x light pink.