Stapelia gigantea - Indigenous South African Succulent - 10 Seeds Bamboo

Stapelia gigantea - Indigenous South African Succulent - 10 Seeds BambooThe genus Stapelia consists of around 40 species of low growing, spineless, stem succulent plants, predominantly from South Africa. The flowers of certain species, most notably Stapelia gigantea, can reach 41 cm in diameter when fully open. Most Stapelia flowers are visibly hairy and generate the odour of rotten flesh to attract various specialist pollinators including, in the case of carrion scented blooms, blow flies of the dipteran family

The ears of corn are simply the sweetest you will ever taste

All are deeply ribbed and spiny

The variety is F6 which is resistant to leaf rust (Himalaya Vastatrix)

paler below

The seed pods are flat and crescent shaped

Growing to 40cm with greyish-green rosettes with incurved foliage and simple large raceme of dense red flowers in Winter

A night flowering plant

These thick walled bright redhot chilli peppers also known as the Cherry "Bomb Pepper" are an easy to grow and prolific pepper maturing at 60 days

keep the growing tips pinched

Ideally plant in early spring to late summer

Recently the circumscription of the genus Wurmbea has been increased to incorporate to include Onixotis punctata and Onixotis stricta

In South Africa it is more dominant in the Baphalaborwa area in Limpopo