Gum Drop Conophytum / Burger's Onion - Conophytum burgeri
Latin Name:
Conophytum burgeri
Regular price
$14.99 CAD
SKU:
38926
We only sell freshly harvested seeds from small time growers, hobbyists and collectors.Listing is for 5 Seeds Conophytum burgeri, sometimes referred to as 'Burger's Onion', is a small desert plant that looks like a strange 'strawberry-coloured' onion and is the oddest member of the genus. It is very slow to clump up; four or five heads being the maximum normally seen in cultivation. Description:Conophytum burgeri, sometimes referred to as 'Burger's Onion', is a small desert plant that looks like a strange 'strawaberry-coloured' onion and is the oddest member of the genus. It is very slow to clump up; four or...
We only sell freshly harvested seeds from small time growers, hobbyists and collectors. Listing is for 5 Seeds
Conophytum burgeri, sometimes referred to as 'Burger's Onion', is a small desert plant that looks like a strange 'strawberry-coloured' onion and is the oddest member of the genus. It is very slow to clump up; four or five heads being the maximum normally seen in cultivation.
Description:Conophytum burgeri, sometimes referred to as 'Burger's Onion', is a small desert plant that looks like a strange 'strawaberry-coloured' onion and is the oddest member of the genus. It is very slow to clump up; four or five heads being the maximum normally seen in cultivation. Unlike many conophytums (e.g. Conophytum bilobum and Conophytum obcordellum) it is a spring and summer growing plant. During winter the plants are covered by a white sheath. Old plants can reach the size of a small chicken egg.
Bodies (paired leaves): Solitary, rarely doubled, but up to 5 headed in cultivation, not sunken. Leaves wholly fused 13-25(-30) mm tall, 20-25 (-30) mm in diameter at the base, broadly ovate or conical, flat toward the base and sometimes indented or scalloped around the base, translucent pale grey-green to rich ruby red, shiny, very smooth, covered with persistent white flaking sheaths. Fissure glabrous, short 2-4 mm long often inconspicuous. Flower: Honey-scented purple-rose, long, often splitting the bodies. The calyx-tube is 4-5 mm long with 6 greenish-white sepals with thin margins. The corolla tube (10 mm long) is longer than the calyx tube. There are 24-52 petals (7-18 mm long, 3 mm wide) in a 2-3 series. The petals are rose-purplish in colour and white toward the base. The stamens occur in three series and there are numerous delicate whitish filaments (10 mm long), anthers are yellow. The stigmas (10-14 mm long) are free.
Blooming season: Early autumn (The flowering time in South Africa is April-May) Flowers are crepuscular and opening briefly in the mid afternoon.
Caution: (Seeds are TINY)
Please be very careful when opening the seed pack, seeds are extremely small and can be easily blown away.
