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Adrian Riskin · @AdrianRiskin

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I don't grow opuntias in my yard because they're so treacherous but they are also stunning!

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Adrian Riskin · @AdrianRiskin

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This looks like a lawn but the entire thing is a mat of minuscule mesembryanthemums like in the second picture. I don't know the species but these are slow growing and not free flowering but for a couple weeks in spring they're covered with tiny pink and white pinstriped blooms shown in the third picture (that's a different plant same species)

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Does anyone know what genus or species this mesemb is? It's flowering like this from a cutting after just a couple months so I'd like to try other species in the genus. I broke off a piece from someone's yard and It rooted quicker even than most mesembs. It's so pretty!

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Adrian Riskin · @AdrianRiskin

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My steppie came to visit a few weeks ago and bought a beautiful little pink-flowering Schlumbergera. She didn't take it with her so I've been taking care of it. The blooms all died back a little while ago and now it turns out there's fruit! I don't know if these are self-fertilizing, but no reason not to sprout all of them just to see! They grow outside here all year round so it's not that much work to grow dozens. Maybe this always happens? This is my first one ever!

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Adrian Riskin · @AdrianRiskin

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I lived in UCLA married student housing on sawtelle until around 1969. These were old garden style apartments, now torn down and replaced, and had a ton of lantana hedges.

When the lantana was in bloom it was continually surrounded by clouds of one particular kind of moth. I still live in Los Angeles and there's still lantana everywhere but I can't remember the last time I saw one of those moths.

From wiki I think they were
Lantanophaga pusillidactyla, which is a southern California native. The wiki page doesn't say if it's endangered or not, but it's certainly gone from Los Angeles in historic quantities.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lantanophaga_pusillidactyla

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