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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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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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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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An easy-to-grow, clump-forming succulent with basally branching stems that spread sideways or trail, quickly filling a pot. In autumn it bears beautiful dark purple flowers with recurved petal tips.
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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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Small succulent that clusters at the base. Cylindrical stems are green-brown with white-tipped tubercles. From late summer to early autumn, numerous small, funnel-shaped brownish-purple flowers with yellow throats bloom near stem tips.
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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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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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