#ruschia

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

South Africa, 2025

[candypby]

my bag 🍀 i diyed the interior with custom pockets and lining, 3D printed the strap holder, and made a lot of the straps lololol… i want to crochet new bag straps next !!!!! !!

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Ruschia namusmontana

Ruschia is a large genus in the Ice Plant Family native to southern Africa. Most of the species are small shrubs, and this is the case with Ruschia namusmontana, which is little seen in cultivation. its chubby succulent leaves come in opposite pairs, and the purplish pink flowers emerge at the tips of the stems in winter. It is native to the Richtersveld, in the dry northwest corner of South Africa, and across the Orange River in the mountains of southwestern Namibia.

-Brian

[morphons]

Acrodon bellidiflorus. December 2020. 

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

South Africa, 2025

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Ruschia karooica

Here is yet another of the amazing winter-flowering mesembs (members of the Ice Plant Family), Ruschia karooica. Its flowers are small, but it makes lots of them! Lets give a round of applause for South Africa, the magical home of so many of these botanical wonders.

-Brian

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Ruschia sp.

This is another mesemb (member of the Ice Plant Family) from South Africa that we received without a name. We suppose it to be one of the hundreds of species belonging to the genus Ruschia, but many of these are not in cultivation, and it is difficult to find pictures with which to identify the species. It has pea-like rounded leaves, but with narrow "window stripes" (strips of translucence), and purplish-pink flowers.

-Brian

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Ruschia crassa

Ruschia is a large genus in the Aizoaceae, or Ice Plant Family, with over 200 species. But only a small number of these are seen in the nursery trade, and there are all sorts of interesting discoveries to be made if one starts investigating this group. While most of the species have flowers in the pink-magenta-purple range, Ruschia crassa is an exception with its white flowers. It is also unusual in the way its leaves clasp the stems, only curving outward a bit at the tip. This trait is shared with several other related species, but it gives them a unique look. R. crassa comes from South Africa’s Great Karoo region.

-Brian