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Ceropegia dichotoma is the most succulent shrubby Ceropegia. It starts as a single stick, that in time makes a whole colony of basally branched succulent stems. Adult specimens look something like grey organ pipes. The flowers are lantern-shaped, yellow.
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La corolla varia in colore dal bianco avorio al color sabbia, ed è ornata da linee o puntini trasvesali rosso-bruni che aumentano progressivamente di intensità veso gli apici. It produces numerous flowers in profusion in autumn.
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Produces big, dark-red flowers in autumn. They are, flat and densely covered by long hair at the centre that remember the fur of a dead animal. The moderate carrion smell of the flowers attracts flies.
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Nice and popular plant in collections, because of the profusion of yellow flowers it produces. The name is due to the stem segments that are ovoid or globose, light green and resemble a mass of tiny potatoes.
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Produces large star fish-shaped deep brown-purple flowers with transverse brow to whitish corrugation. The flowers are densely covered by long purplish hairs at the centre that remember the fur of a dead animal.
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Ceropegia woodii is a succulent plant with slender, trailing stems and heart-shaped leaves in silvery-green tones, adorned with decorative veining. It produces small, tubular pink or purplish flowers shaped like Japanese lanterns.
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Duvalia sulcata ssp. seminuda has star-like flowers with shiny bright brownish-red corolla lobes, but unlike the normal D. sulcata the annulus is glabrous. The standard D. sulcata has larger lobes with a dense crown of long, white hairs on the annulus.
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This sturdy, floriferous species bears elongated quadrangular stems crowned with dense clusters of dark purple and yellow flowers smelling strongly of cow dung. It branches from the base, creating compact, small clumps.
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Huernia zebrina (a.k.a. Owl eyes) is one of the most beautifully flowering huernias. It has a raised, glossy, wine-red ring or 'annulus' around the mouth of the corolla tube. The corolla is patterned with wine-red zebra stripes.
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Hoya carnosa, the porcelainflower or wax plan is a common house plant grown for its attractive waxy foliage, and sweetly scented flowers. It is grown well in pots and hanging baskets.
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Huernia insigniflora has flowers that opens one at a time in succession in summer and autumn. Flowers have liver-coloured or purple annulus, and ivory to pink lobes unmark. Stems greyish-green with smaller teeth.
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Huernia hystrix subs. parvula is a distinctive subspecies with much shorter stems rarely more than 3 cm long, and smaller flowers. The flowers are cup-shaped with spiny petals, dull yellow in colour and banded with red.
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Huernia saudi-arabica has bell-shaped flowers up to 40 mm wide, deep purplish-red inside with raised whitish-yellow papillae. Distribution: Asir, Sorth West of Taif, Saudi Arabia.
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Petopentia natalensis is a perennial-climber with a tuberous rootstock to 40 cm in diameter, bark red-brown, finely fissured. The leaves are mooth and shiny, leathery, and have a distinctive purple underside. The flowers are greenish yellow.
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Flowers are smooth and shiny, the lobes are wide dull flesh-coloured becoming creamy white in the centre. Along the edge of the corolla there are vibratile hairs which form a fringe. The hairs hardly start trembling in the slightest breeze.
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From Tanzania Huernia schneideriana is a very attractive species. The flowers are burgundy, but almost black inside the tube, about 3 cm and velvety.
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Huernia zebrina variegata is one of the most beautifully flowering huernias. The stems are green and yellow. The corolla is patterned with wine-red zebra stripes. Very sought after by impassioned this variety is a must in stapelias collections
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Hoya carnosa, the wax plant, is a popular house plant grown for its attractive glossy foliage, and sweetly scented flesh coloured flowers resembling wax. This cultivar can be distinguished by the white or cream border on its leaves.
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x Tavarorbea cv. Red Leopard (Tavaresia barklyi x Orbea variegata) is a beautiful hybrid with colourful flowers about 5-8 cm across. The name ‘Red Leopard’ aptly describes the purple-red spotted-blotched appearance of the flowers.
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Orbea dummeri is a most unusual and very free flowering species. The flowers are starry, greeny-yellow or olive-green in colour and possess a hairy corolla surface. It forms small lax mats to 10 cm tall.
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Huernia concinna has pale sulphur-yellow flowers marked all over with small dark brownish-crimson spots. It is a rare species known for a long time only from the type collection; It has not been found again despite considerable collecting activity.
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Stapelia atrosanguinea (Piaranthus atrosanguineus) is a distinct stapeliad characterized by short lived dark bloody-red flowers of elaborate design and beauty.
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Huernia zebrina (a.k.a. Owl eyes) is a low-growing succulent species more or less creeping . It is one of the most beautifully flowering huernias and very popular in cultivation for its odd blooms.
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A compact-growing plant with green stems edged with small teeth. At the stem base appear lots of tiny cup-shaped flowers, yellow with brown spots or bands, giving the plant a charming and decorative look.
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Huernia hislopii subs. robusta is similar to standard Huernia hislopii, but the stems are more robust and the flower is larger (up to 5 cm in diameter!). The corolla is white with dark red spots, basally without concentric lines. Beautiful.
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Nice hybrid between Huernia saudi-arabica and Huernia zebrina with large flowers. The corolla is decorated with burgundy and cream yellow zebra-stripes.
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Pachycymbium deflersiana forms attractive dense cushions with red-flecked stems. The flowers are bell-shaped, purple-streaked ocher, about 2,5 cm in diameter and are stimulated by the hot, dry summer. They are among the worst smelling carrion flowers.
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This is an exceptional clone with flowers that are entirely dark red in color. The smooth, glossy surface gives the flowers a charming sheen.
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This is a beautiful crested plant, robust and easy to grow and flower. RARE.
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Group-forming with strange, large pinkish blooms! Hoodia has long been used by Southern African indigenous groups—infrequently—for indigestion and minor infections. A rare species.
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Numerous flowers of extraordinary beauty open simultaneously or at intervals from late summer to autumn. The corolla is ivory-coloured with fine reddish dots or bands, papillose, and features a vivid orange central corona.
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Beautiful star-shaped flowers with wine-red spots arranged in a leopard-like pattern on a yellow-cream background. A botanical marvel that impresses all with its extraordinary elegance and vivid contrast.
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C.armandii is a splendid stapeliad-like succulent from Madagascar. These plants do not like sun, have slender stems climb into shrubs or spread on the ground rooting below. Stems are gray flecked with bronze, lizard-like, with conical tubercles. RARE.
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Nice hybrid involving Orbea wismannii and Orbea Decaisneana. Robust and easy to grow.
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Rare and very pretty with its redbrown disc like flower with sharp tip.
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An excellent hybrid between Hoodia and Trichocaulon. A particularly successful cross that blends the best traits of both genera.
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Lots of small fleshy flowers, in groups of 1–3, blooms in spring and summer. Corolla deep maroon, dotted or striped with yellow, becoming creamy toward the center. Stems bluish-green to greyish-green, deeply 4-angled with prominent fleshy conical teeth.
