#tylecodon

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

South Africa, 2025

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Tylecodon wallichii

Tylecodon is a genus in the Crassulaceae, or Stonecrop Family, and all of the species were once included in Cotyledon (Tylecodon is an anagram of Cotyledon). The differences are that the leaves in Tylecodon are alternate (vs. opposite in Cotyledon), and the species in Tylecodon go dormant in the summer. Our plant had fleshy cylindrical leaves all during its winter growing season, but as soon as these began to wither the flower stalks emerged, reaching a height of about 3 feet (almost 1 m). It is a little hard to see the stems in the upper photo, showing the whole plant in flower, so I have included a close-up of a knobbly stem, as well as a shot of the yellow flowers. Tylecodon wallichii comes from the winter-rainfall area in western South Africa, and northward into southern Namibia.

-Brian

[kouji-yamamoto]

*230318 塊根を出してペリペリとめくるとなかなか艶やかな肌が見えてきて良い感じに😆 そして相変わらず葉がでかい🍃 少しネバネバしてて虫やら用土かくっついたりするんだけど匂うと3Mのスプレーのりのニオイがするのは不思議🥸！ #tylecodon #atropurpureus #チレコドン #アトロプルプレウス #アトロプルプレウス_ky #caudex #cactus #succulent #塊根植物 #サボテン #多肉植物 #観葉植物 #住宅 #神戸 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp7u9KjrdLE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[morphons]

Tylecodon schaferianus.  August 2021. 

[wonder-rooms]

Tylecodon cacalioides (c. 1777-1786) - Robert Jacob Gordon

[botaniqueer]

The winter growing babies have woken up!

— Albuca concordiana (day 438) — Another A. concordiana sibling with a different leaf phenotype. — Tylecodon wallichii (day 1027) —Massonia pustulata (day 968)

[sabakuplants]

The last week or so has been….*fraught*, so I haven’t had much time to devote to the greenhouse (during the day).

Happy enough without me, many plants have been flowering entirely out of my view. However, I’m really happy to have caught this little one today.

South African plants seem to do well in England—likely because a lot of them are winter growers and so it always feels like winter to them. Among them, the caudiciform (pachycaul), poisonous, and completely unpleasant genus Tylecodon is of special interest to me, and this is a rare’un

[tkk21]

Tylecodon

1枚目：2020.9.22 Tylecodon pearsonii

2枚目：2020.9.22 Tylecodon reticulatus

3枚目：2020.10.20 Tylecodon reticulatus

3枚目はいただきもの。種が見えなくてファサッとまいたらこの有様です…💦

この姿からあのサイズになるとは想像出来ません。