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Posted: May/29/2009 1:55 PM PST
I just got a group of cacti and succulents and they are so nice bt i would love to know if anyone can name any of them. It would be cool to know what it is I have. Attachments:   |
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Posted: May/29/2009 3:17 PM PST
I am not sure on the cactus, I usually rely on Rosemarie to answer questions like that, I love the varigated variety in the second photo! Its one I havent seen yet (I want lol) 
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Posted: May/29/2009 4:17 PM PST
I would need to see closer pix to get any detail to ID them.  On the cactus, from what I can see, 1 & 2 look like Echinopsis. Three & six could be as well...if they are just smaller versions of 1 & 2. Five looks like a monstrose form of something (like Cereus forbesii f. monstrose).  Seven & eight could be Frailea, but they could also be baby something else! I have no clue on #9. It looks like grapes to me! BTW, thanks for numbering them! In the succulent bowl, starting with the plant in the 12 o'clock position & going clockwise: could be a Crassula ovata, a variegated Aeonium (I hesitate to say 'Sunburst', because it doesn't look quite right for that), two Echeveria (lg & sm)-could be E. peacockii, Aeonium-possibly a Catlin hybrid-maybe 'Garnet' -but could be other, hard to say on the one at 9 o'clock-but looks like an Echeveria, if there is a plant at 10 o'clock-I can't make it out, last plant looks like a Sedum (as it grows out-could get a better ID). Best I can do.
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Posted: May/29/2009 7:26 PM PST
Here are some better pics of the cacti after i potted them in temp pots to get them rooting good. Attachments:      |
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Posted: May/29/2009 7:30 PM PST
And a couple closer of the succulents. Te thing I find so interesting abot the verigated one is that it is "toothed" along the edge of the leaves. All of these cacti and succulents just came in today mail. Attachments:     |
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Posted: May/29/2009 10:30 PM PST
I would be very interested in finding out what that varigated echeveria is. The teeth or serrations are interesting. It is indeed a very attractive plant. Good luck on identification!!!
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Posted: May/30/2009 9:21 AM PST
Thanks so much for the additional pix! (Mary/prayerrock, isn't it?-as you post at GW?) The way this site has the forums set up-makes it complicated , once you start a response, to go back to pix to refer-I need to have 2 browser windows open (or make notes). Oh well. Succulents: The variegated succulent is most likely Aeonium 'Sunburst'. It will be more evident as it grows out. Many Aeonium have teeth or cilia (hair-like) on the leaf edges. If you look closely, you'll see that on the dark one too. Are your plant's leaves thick or thin? 12:00 -Still looks like Crassula ovata-though it looks more viney now than it should. With more sun, it should grow more compactly. Dark one -still Aeonium, Catlin hybrid The one I thought was Sedum, maybe not-wait till it grows out a bit & post again , please. Are the leaves firm or soft? Any hairs? Cactus: 1, 2 & 6: Echinopsis -when they bloom you might figure their species or if a named cultivar. 5 does look like Cereus forbesii f. monstrose. 4 looks like a baby of it as well (if not a baby of #3) 3 may be too young to tell, but could be a Notocactus ubelmannianus or a Gymnocalycium denudatum or G. horstii--or something else! As with most succulents, flowers greatly help in proper ID! 7 & 8 seem like the same thing. Again, you may have to wait till they grow out some before getting a positive ID on them. 9 -I still can't make out. Does it have spines (I assume it does, since you have it grouped with the cacti) -or a textured surface? Could be an Epithelantha or something else entirely. Enjoy your new plants! |
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Posted: May/30/2009 11:03 AM PST
Yeppers prayerrock would be me on GW! I love the cacti/succulent forum there..wonderful group of people and I have learned so much there. What is your GW name? Thanks so much for the plant IDs. The leaves are thick yes, though not real thick becae they are small yet but you can definitly tell they are succulents. They were way over watered were they were and a couple of them are suffering rot right now and I am just hoping they pull through. I pulled off several under leaves from most all of them that were rotting. The one pictured next to the verigated one is actually rotting in the middle now and I may loose it but I really hope not. The little one besie it is not a smaller version of that one, it has a yellow and pink tinge to it but I cant get a good pic of it to show that. It is very pretty and I look foward to seeing it when it grows up I figured that one was crassula ovata but I have never seen it viney like that so wasnt absolutely sure. I am thinking I will cut the stem short on that and set it n the sun and see if it will compact. The "sedum" in question does not have any hairs and is firm. Thanks so much for all the help IDing all these RR |
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Posted: May/30/2009 12:21 PM PST
I used to hang out daily on GW ('96-'06) in the Cacti Gallery, C&S, Name That Plant & Garden Gallery forums till the site's company changed hands & they changed their TOS to indicate that they owned any photos we posted there. They changed hands a couple times in '05. They ruined it, IMO. Many folks jumped ship at that time. Many new forums were born because of it. (maybe this one, I don't know) I posted under the same name I use here. I boycott it now-never updated my membership, although it won't allow me to delete it (so it will seem like they have more members-to whomever they try selling the site to down the road). When I can ID something, I ask someone else to post for me. I still lurk on occasion. On the variegated Aeonium, I ask about the thickness, because there are some Aeonium with thin leaves. It helps in determining which is which. As a rule of thumb, you can let all of these dry out between watering. Your idea to chop the Crassula & give it more sun to grow compactly is a good one. There are several greyish-blue (glaucous) Echeveria that look similar--and a few they've lumped together now--so letting them grow out would be good to get a good ID on them. Hope you don't lose that one. If that one I thought was a Sedum has little dimples on it, it may be Crassula multicava. Again, better to see it after it's grown a bit. Just to share~here's a sampling of some of my sux-from several yrs ago: Attachments:  |
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Posted: May/30/2009 12:45 PM PST
Oh my I am sooooooooo drooling!!!!! I hope to have mine like that in time I just started to collect and I am loving it so much Thank you for sharing and I do hope to see you back on GW becase no matter what the owners do you have a lot to offer people there that could use your help an wisdom/experience. Its not worth depriving the garden world over silly things.RR |
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