Some bad photos of plants

  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...

  This plant was sold to me as Alpinia formosana and I have no reason to doubt that. The usual common name is "pinstripe ginger" ...

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...

I found a much larger original photograph of the Star Carr pendant. I decided that I wanted to make a new version of the coloured one I mad...

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...

My Curio just flowered. The flower is 12mm (½ inch) across and 22 mm (⅞ inch) tall. They don't flower very often but are widely-...

The first flower on my Frerea indica (or Boucerosia frerei ) was badly placed for taking a photo. This was the best I could get. The flo...

Never forget.

Hawthorn or Mayflower Yesterday, I went for my first recreational stroll since being locked down. I took one hour and a little under 20...