Plant Highlights By Date
Orbea variegata
September 2023
Stapeliads are well known for their remarkable five-pointed flowers, and these are often referred to as “carrion flowers” because many of them employ foul odors to attract the flies that pollinate them, including the Orbea variegata.
Cycas debaoensis
August 2023
Cycas debaoensis is a cone-bearing gymnosperm belonging to the order Cycadales, an ancient lineage whose ancestry extends back 300 million years, to a time when flowering plants had not yet evolved.
Agave pintilla
July 2023
The Agave pintilla is an unusual agave with compact rosettes of leaves with striking white markings on the leaf surfaces.
Echinocereus pentalophus subspecies pentalophus
June 2023
Plants in the Cactaceae, or Cactus Family, are almost all native to the Americas, and they occur widely in both North America and South America. This includes Echinocereus pentalophus subspecies pentalophus.
Gasteria rawlinsonii
May 2023
While many Gasteria are stemless, this is not true of a unique cliff-dwelling species named Gasteria rawlinsonii.
Bulbine latifolia
April 2023
One of the largest of the Bulbine species is Bulbine latifolia, which has an extensive distribution in eastern South Africa.
Acacia aphylla
March 2023
While some Australian Acacia species have long been widely used horticulturally (and in some cases have naturalized in other parts of the world), others have stayed out of the limelight. One of the latter is Acacia aphylla.
Aloinopsis rubrolineata
February 2023
Aloinopsis is a genus of nine species in the Aizoaceae, or Ice Plant Family, native to South Africa. They are dwarf clustering plants with tuberous roots and bumpy-textured leaves.
Iris unguicularis
January 2023
Many irises are spring-flowering, but Iris unguicularis, popularly known as the Algerian iris, is especially early-flowering, usually commencing even before the winter solstice.
Hakea petiolaris
December 2022
Though Hakea species may be found in various parts of Australia, the winter-rainfall region in the continent’s southwest has the most species. One of these is Hakea petiolaris, from near Perth and up to about 300 km east and northeast of there.
