Flowering Right Now – March 2018

Check out these beauties we found flowering in the Klein Karoo in the last couple of days. Remember to…

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Plant of the Month – Mar 2018

Euphorbia gamkensis (Marx 1999) Calitzdorp Euphorbia Our own Calitzdorp Euphorbia. Euphorbis gamkensis grows a large, more or less cylindrical underground…

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Surviving in times of drought. How plants do it?

  Text: Luise Granig This article appeared in the February 2018 Newsletter of the Johannesburg Succulent Society and are reprinted with…

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Flowering Right Now – February 2018

Buck Hemenway, Chairman of the Calitzdorp Succulent Society, shared some pictures of the succulents currently flowering in the Hemenways’…

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Plant of the Month – Feb 2018

Portulacaria afra (Jacquin 1786) Spekboom (Pork Bush) Elephant’s food, isiCococo (Zulu) iGqwanitsha (Xhoza) This plant is very popular among succulent collectors and growers,…

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Plant of the Month – Jan 2018

Tylecodon cacalioides (Tolken 1978) (Krismisnenta, Krimpsiektebos) This plant is flowering profusely as this article is being written. We are just…

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Plant of the Month – Dec 2017

Delosperma calitzdorpense L. Bolus 1950 If the name strikes a familiar tone, it is because this plant is known to…

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Discover Mesembs – Veld Walk & Seed Workshop

Join the Calitzdorp Succulent Society and Priscilla Burgoyne the Herbarium Curator at the…

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Plant of the Month – Nov 2017

Stapelia hirsuta Stapelia hirsuta Linnaeus 1753 (AKA: star flower, carrion flower, aasblom)

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Plant of the Month – Oct 2017

Glottiphyllu regium Glottiphyllum regium N.E. Brown 1928 (AKA: Koeispene) Glottiphyllum regium is a clump-forming succulent and can attain a height of…

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