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Carrion Starfish Flower Plant
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Brand:
Whimsy and Wonder
| We only sell freshly harvested seeds from small time growers, hobbyists and collectors. Listing is for 3 Seeds Stapelia rufa is a tufted cactus-like plant that grows up to 100-220 mm tall, with small-sized and showy dull, dark purple, dark red or yellow star-fish-shaped flowers. Seed - takes about a year to ripen, but germinates rapidly after sowing. Fresh seed usually germinates better. Sow the seed in a container in a well-drained, light, sandy soil mixed with compost and cover with a thin layer of soil. Keep the temperature at 25 - 35c, in a shaded and fairly moist position. Keep seedlings well ventilated and in good light to prevent damping off. Once the seedlings are about 50mm high, they can be pricked out and planted (be careful not to damage the roots when pricking out!) The flowers appear at random on the stem, but mainly at the base of the four-cornered velvety branches, the peduncles are shorter than the corolla which is transversely wrinkled, with a shallow depression at the center and pointed lobes, minutely ciliate at the edge, glabrous at the base, but with pubescent tips, a very unusual combination. Corona raised, outer lobes subquadrate, orange; inner lobes erect, oblong black. This species flowers in spring. |
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