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Oct 2, 2013 6:14 PM CST
Name: Ursula
Fair Lawn NJ, zone 7a
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Ok I promised some pictures. Smiling
Let me start with the Dioscorea macrostachya in full bloom no less. But if you blink, you will miss the tiny blooms. (My fingers as size comparison.) I find those dangling garlands cute.
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Now I used to have a tall Adenium obesum/somalense hybrid ( I always thought that's what it was, judging mainly by the specific shape of the trunk as in somalense), I had it for many years - started from a small plant, and years ago I started to top it off every so often at ca 6 -7 feet to make it somewhat manageable. Unfortunately it started to rot on me. I couldn't save the large plant, so this Spring I chopped off some cuttings and dumped the bottom part. The cuttings wound up in a bucket with water, sitting on the deck all Summer. By the end of August some pieces were starting to root and I potted up the pieces together.
Here they are, starting to actually green out and grow a bit. ( the other plant in that pot is Senecio fulgens)
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And here is the assortment
Pachypodium baronii and Commiphora humbertii ( with the tiny leaves) I love to crush a couple of the Commophora leaves, the scent is really great.
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Adenium obesum, a small and a larger Jatropha podagrica, Uncarinas, Dorstenia and the Euphorbia tortirama. I am growing this Euphorbia for many years and as it loses the lower leaves it does develop a bit of a caudex. It has cute yellow fragrant blooms in Summer.
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Dioscorea sylvatica, Gerrardanthus macrorhyzus, foot of Pachypodium densiflorum, Matelea cyclophylla, the next four pics are that of a Fockea species with those little yellow blooms
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Zygosycyos tripartitum, base of Pachypodium succulentum, stem of Pachy densiflorum, Bowiea solubilis ( green messy thing, will bloom in late Winter)
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Pachypodium saundersii, Adenium multiflorum mombassa, Pachypodium saundersii, Pachypodium baronii var windsorii, Cibirhiza albersiana in leaf, Pachypodium eburneum, Pachypodium brevicaule, Pachypodium namaquanum.
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Hope you enjoy! Smiling
Last edited by Ursula Oct 2, 2013 6:18 PM Icon for preview

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