Zeb has flowers!

[hwango]

Zeb, my succulent from Colorado, has flowers! That's so cool! I usually don't have much luck getting my cacti and succulents to flower. The zygocacti and haworthia are the only other ones that flower for me. I had hoped some of the little growths on the sides of Zeb would turn out to open into flowers, but I had no idea what they'd look like.

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[chromatophile.livejournal.com]

Interesting; what species is Zeb? He looks like an asclepiad (a plant in the milkweed family) but his flowers are so tiny and delicate; succulent asclepiads usually have large, colorful, strangely shaped, and often putrid-smelling flowers. Does he have milky sap? I am now getting ready to go on a rampage of information gathering, because not knowing the identity of a plant or animal tends to drive me insane.

While I'm on the subject of asclepiads, I'd like to recommend the Persian Carpet Flower, Edithcolea grandis. (http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Asclepiadaceae/Edithcolea_grandis.html) If you think you have enough skill to grow this beauty, go for it; it's definitely worth it!

[hwango.livejournal.com]

Well, the tag is a bit garbled, but someone over on the succulents group managed to straighten out that q'iaq'ia must be Quaqua, and that makes him a Quaqua Incarnata. I didn't smell his flower, so if it stinks of rotting meat then it isn't very strong. I don't know if his sap is milky, since I haven't done anything to make him bleed.

The Persian Carpet Flower looks very cool (both plant and flower). I still have mixed luck with my succulents, though, so I'd better not try anything really tricky. Some of them do great, but others mysteriously perish on me. Like Tiger Jaws. I don't know why, but they don't like me. I don't think I've ever had one make it a full year. My Brain Cactus, on the other hand, has been a loyal friend for many years and has grown to be 7 inches across. So who knows?

I moved Zeb out of the South window because he was getting a bit scorched. However, the day after I did this his flower closed up, and the other ones he has haven't opened. I hope I didn't overcompensate or something.