sebastian büttrich · @sebastian
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pseudanthium ("false flower") .... the ...

also grateful for help with

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gigas and neighbour succulentum
at -

flowers very different,
origins different - and

but beautiful side by side.


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sebastian büttrich · @sebastian
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gigas is a survival artist.
First plant, grown from seed at home, lost all leaves due to mealy bugs and treatment, yet makes new leaves.
Plant two, at , looked dead all year - yet it blooms.


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sebastian büttrich · @sebastian
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RT @NaufragoToni
𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒂 Schweinf., Pl. Quaed. Nilot.: 36 (1862) var. 𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒂𝒏𝒂
Cameroon to Yemen and Zambia. Tuberous geophyte, seasonally dry tropical biome.
Liben Plains, Ethiopia.
Original photo: 𝑺𝒕𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒆 2011

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sebastian büttrich · @sebastian
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Thorough treatment needed for and -
being the enemy in the dry winter quarter.
Some plants affected heavily. But they always come back.
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sebastian büttrich · @sebastian
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i keep coming back to this because it is so beautiful, in very much its own way ...

spp (ID help is welcome - i grew it as D. contrajerva, but i doubt it ..)



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sebastian büttrich · @sebastian
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First (pseudo)flowers on sp.,
grown from seed in , 1y9m old

(labeled Dorstenia contrajerva, but i doubt it - expert ID, pls?)

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sebastian büttrich · @sebastian
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(Pseudo) flowers of
foetida verde

"... pseudanthium (Greek for "false flower") or in Moraceae hypanthium,
which is composed of clusters of tiny unisexual flowers
on a disc- or cup-shaped receptacle that are often adorned with bracts of various sizes and shapes."
[wikipedia]


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comment/correction: distribution of foetida is much wider than just - it is

, , , , , and .

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sebastian · @sebastian
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Flower of Dorstenia contrajerva *
a non- , from -
in ,
1.5 yr old

(*if it is one? experts please?)

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GBIF snapshot - source:
gbif.org/species/2984541

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