Some bad photos of plants

  I only have one individual of this plant, now 2 years and 4 months old. Last year it produced just one fruit, despite the fruit coming in ...

  I had a bumper crop of Asclepias syriaca fruit last year. Compared to the one fruit I have had in the previous eight years, any crop is s...

I have added some updates to my original article on Stephanotis floribunda (warning: Too Much Information, now over 19,000 words). The pict...

  Apteranthes (Caralluma) tuberculata Herbarium sheet from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ¹  UPDATE: 16/9/2024 David Goyder of Kew Gardens (...

I first read about Ceropegia bulbosa over 30 years ago and have finally got to eat the tuber. Of course, I could have visited India and fou...

I have been growing this plant since I received it in October 2020 under the name Trichocaulon flavum . That is an old name, that plant is n...

  The photo above was taken last Saturday, the first of January 2022. I am immensely pleased that it flowered so soon.

  Ceropegia bulbosa , with edible leaves and tubers much sought after in India. My photo from September. I was looking up some descriptions ...

Stapelia adscendens , from   Plants of the Coast of Coromandel  ¹  Picture file from the BHL Pro Flickr albums. What is the origin of the na...

Linnaeus named⁹ the genus Ceropegia in 1737 in his Genera plantarum .  Linnaeus referred to the description and picture of a plant in the H...

I received this Hoya carnosa  from Italy last September as a stunted succulent with a little bundle of roots that fitted with plenty of roo...

Shindal Makudi is the local Marathi name of an unusual little succulent found wild only in the state of Maharashtra in western India. It is ...

Continued from Part One   Cultivation in India One of my two plants, again. Growing in Manchester. We don't know whether Shindal Makudi ...

Hoya bella , the Beautiful Hoya This beautiful plant may still be the most cultivated species of Hoya , 174 years after it was first collect...

This Orbea variegata flowered today and is a spectacular, peculiar and interesting flower. That does not stop it being an intense disappoin...

Stephanotis floribunda flowering in habitat in southeastern Madagascar. Photo: © Nivo Rakotonirina  from Tropicos Attribution-NonC...

Here are a couple of photos of Duvalia polita N.E. Br of the Asclepiadoideae subfamily of the Apocynaceae, which used to be its own famil...