Succulent Bromeliads and others

September 22, 2017

The End

This might be my last addition to this blog. Because of my health I can not get around that much.
Sold off most of my plants (still have a lot that I cannot take care of).
I said all I can say about plants I have and have no idea what else to say.

If anyone was a question about any plants you see on this blog I will try to answer them.

It's been fun

Len

June 1, 2017

Two types of Orthophytum's

I thought this was useful information so I'm adding it to this blog. With a few updates.

Some Orthophytum's do not flower on a flower stem like the Orthophytum above.

Orthophytum sanguinea

Only about 16 out of 79 flower like this as far as I can tell. They are:

1. Orthophytum albopictum

2. Orthophytum amoenum

3. Orthophytum burle-marxii

4. Orthophytum hatschbachii

5. Orthophytum heleniceae

6. Orthophytum humile

7. Orthophytum mucugense

8. Orthophytum mucugense

9. Orthophytum navioides

10. Orthophytum ophiuroides

11. Orthophytum pseudovagans

12. Orthophytum rafaelii

13. Orthophytum roseum

14. Orthophytum ulei

15. Orthophytum vagans

16. Orthophytum zanonii

No longer a Orth.

Orthophytum supthutii

Now it's called Lapa duartei

Photo links are from FCBS Bromeliad Photo Index Database

A list of all Orthophytum's from the FCBS Bromeliad Species Database

Orthophytum albopictum

Orthophytum alvimii

Orthophytum amoenum

Orthophytum benzingii

Orthophytum braunii

Orthophytum burle-marxii

Orthophytum burle-marxii var. seabrae

Orthophytum compactum

Orthophytum disjunctum

Orthophytum disjunctum var. angustobracteatum

Orthophytum disjunctum var. minus

Orthophytum disjunctum var. striatum

Orthophytum disjunctum var. variegatum

Orthophytum disjunctum var. viridiflorum

Orthophytum duartei

Orthophytum eddie-estevesii

Orthophytum foliosum

Orthophytum fosterianum

Orthophytum fosterianum var. estevesii

Orthophytum glabrum

Orthophytum gurkenii

Orthophytum hatschbachii

Orthophytum humile

Orthophytum lemei

Orthophytum leprosum

Orthophytum lucidum

Orthophytum lymanianum

Orthophytum magalhaesii

Orthophytum maracasense

Orthophytum mello-barretoi

Orthophytum navioides

Orthophytum rubrum

Orthophytum sanctum

Orthophytum saxicola

Orthophytum saxicola var. aloifolium

Orthophytum sucrei

Orthophytum supthutii not a Orth

Orthophytum vagans

Orthophytum grossiorum

Orthophytum estevesii

Orthophytum horridum

Orthophytum falconii

Orthophytum toscanoi

Orthophytum heleniceae

Orthophytum jabrense

Orthophytum zanonii

Orthophytum lanuginosum

Orthophytum macroflorum

Orthophytum riocontense

Orthophytum rubiginosa

Orthophytum schulzianum

Orthophytum mucugense

Orthophytum conquistense

Orthophytum harleyi

Orthophytum atalaiense

Orthophytum triunfense

Orthophytum boudetianum

Orthophytum striatifolium

Orthophytum pseudovagans

Orthophytum catingae

Orthophytum piranianum

Orthophytum graomogolense

Orthophytum itambense

Orthophytum ophiuroides

Orthophytum diamantinense

Orthophytum toscanoi ssp. atropurpureum

Orthophytum cearense

Orthophytum teofilo-otonense

Orthophytum elegans

Orthophytum jacaraciense

Orthophytum vidaliorum

Orthophytum guaratingense

Orthophytum pseudostoloniferum

Orthophytum roseum

Orthophytum erigens

Orthophytum buranhense

Orthophytum ulei

Orthophytum rafaelii

Orthophytum argentum

UPDATE 7/27/14

I put this list on Facebook back in April and received this reply

April 30 2014

"Sascha Heller

Correctly. there is a conspicuous differentiation in Orthophytum. And there is also a close link to Cryptanthus. Currently some Colleagues and I are working on a taxonomical improvement. There will be a few new genera coming up,"

I don't know if that’s a good thing or not.

Maybe they will look at Hechtia's as well. Their are some that flower on a stem and some that don't

UPDATE 6/1/2017

Sincoraea

Species

albopictum
amoena
burle-marxii
hatschbachii
heleniceae
humilis
mucugensis
navioides
ophiuroides
rafaelii
ulei

April 4, 2016

More about Uncarina

More about Uncarina?
I like Uncarina's a lot, if I could find more sp. I would try to get them.

This page is more for me then for you. It is to help me remember some of this stuff and to find it if I need to.

This infor comes from:
http://www.cactuspro.com/articles/pollinisation-manuelle-des-uncarina

"Specific and endemic to Madagascar, this genre is composed of 14 species found in all dry areas of the island.

Species

Uncarina abbreviata (Baill.) Ihlenf. Straka &

Uncarina ankaranensis Ihlenf.

Uncarina decaryi Humbert ex Ihlenf.

Uncarina dimidiata (Baill.) Ihlenf. Straka &

Uncarina grandidieri (Baill.) Stapf

Uncarina leandrii Humbert

Uncarina leptocarpa (Decne.) Ihlenf. Straka &

Uncarina peltata (Baker) Stapf, in Engler

Uncarina perrieri Humbert

Uncarina platycarpa Lavranos

Uncarina roeoesliana Rauh

Uncarina sakalava Humbert

Uncarina stellulifera Humbert

Uncarina turicana Lavranos "

The plants are small shrubs or large branched thick trunk (called pachycaules) trees, while a few species form a caudex (say caudiciforms).

Broad foliage, usually lobed or cut, fluffy and void.
The flowers are white, yellow or pink.

Fruit, ovoid capsules, spiky bearing at their ends a harpoon barbs 4, which facilitates the dispersion clinging to animal fur. This is what is called zoochory. Thus, the seeds can travel long distances and to promote the extension of the species.

In situ, the flowers are pollinated by beetles.

The Uncarina are generally self-sterile, ie it must use the pollen from one plant to pollinate another and get fruit. This is the case of Uncarina grandidieri, peltata, roesliana, decaryi and abbreviata where my attempts at self-pollination does nothing. However I have had good results with Uncarina stellulifera which is self-fertile. "
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As far as I can tell

Uncarina abbreviate

Uncarina stellulifera have a pinkisk flower.

Uncarina roeoesliana (type 1 or type 2 lobes leaves leaves entires)

Uncarina perrieri have a flower that is all yellow

Uncarina leptocarpa have white flowers.

So all the others Uncarina's have flowers that are yellow with a dark throat. Uncarina ankaranensis
Uncarina dimidiata

Uncarina grandidieri

Uncarina leandrii

Uncarina peltata

Uncarina platycarpa

Uncarina sakalava

Uncarina turicana

This is from :

http://www.bihrmann.com/caudiciforms/SUBS/unc-dec-sub.asp

As with the other Uncarinas, cuttings do form a caudex.

Uncarina grandidieri
Any Uncarina 's in pots get watered maybe 1 or 2 times a week.

Uncarina grandidieri

March 27 2014
The plants in the ground only gets water then it rains.

March 27 2014 leaves just starting to come out

Last November ‎27, ‎2013

Uncarina decaryi

Uncarina stellulifera

All Uncarina's that I have get as much sun as I can give them. For some it's all day others only 4-6 hours.

Uncarina decaryi: Has not flowered for me yet.

Uncarina roeoesliana: It is also the easiest one to flower; it can flowers when still small (it's 1st or 2nd year from seed). For me it flowers most of the summer.

Uncarina grandidieri: For me it flowers most of the summer also also .

Uncarina roeoesliana: so far not as many flowers Uncarina grandidieri or Uncarina roeoesliana and they are smaller but it does flower off and on in the summer.

Uncarina stellulifera: I have 3 plants, one is a cutting I did last summer, one is a plant that I have been having a hard time keeping roots on it and the last one flowered 1 time last summer and is flower now.

cutting I did last summer

It seems that they are difficult to propagate. Seed pods are few making seeds hard to get and then you do get them few seeds will grow. Cutting are also hard to root, I think you need to be lucky if you can root them.

If any infor. is wrong let my know so I could fix it.

Some of my plants might be miss labeled. The dam labels keep coming missing.