#xerophyte

[camillehenri]

X - Xerophyte

[botaniqueer]

One of them flowered! The flowers aren’t too interesting and look like very standard Asparagales flowers, but the inflorescence itself does add a little to the alien-ness of the plant!

(Trachandra tortilis)

[biology-geology-beaches-india]

Both the seashore and the desert are water-short environments, and it is hardly surprising that they converge to a common picture of powdery sand, date palm, bare rock and scraggly scrub.The saline spray and mist coming in from the ocean so salinizes the environment of the littoral that whatever fresh water comes in here in the form of sporadic rain, or stream wash is rendered unusable by plant and animal life, favoring thus xerophytic vegetation and reptiles. A photo virtually identical to the above photo could just as easily have been taken in any part of the desiccated Middle East.

March 1, 2020, Yarada Beach, Visakhapatnam.

[plantas-mawunko]

Pequeños copiapoas 🌈💜

Copiapoa columna alba

Copiapoa cinerea

Copiapoa haseltoniana

[siryl]

Desert plants from a desert planet by Ben Jelter.

[deadxplantxsociety]

Euphorbia rudis

Went to a collector a few months ago but I still think about it....

[alex-makes-of-the-art]

Got a new plant! Which obviously means that it’s time for another photoshoot. This is Euphorbia obesa, also known as the Basketball or Baseball Plant, so called because of their round shape and the stitched-looking texture at their sides.

Mine looks a little different from most pictured ones so I’m wondering if it’s a hybrid plant or just an older one that most pictured ones.

It had some branches that appear to have fallen off in the mail, so I’m going to try to see if I can root them to get smaller Euphorbias and propagate it! (The smaller orb pictured top right.)

They’re also very satisfying to hold.

[drhoz]

#1265 - Lawrencia helmsii - Dunna-dunna

By far the strangest native plant I’ve ever seen - and to make it even stranger, it’s in the Hibiscus family. Dunna Dunna grows on dry, rocky gypsum and calcrete soils in the midwest regions of Western Australia. These tend to be mineral-enriched, clayey, saline, basic soils (pH abouts 8.0), often on or around rocky rises and saline and gypsum flats. Unsurprising, there was a LOT of it just down the slope from the Cue-York Gums, along the shore of Lake Austin.

The woody stems are covered in a densely packed rosettes of tiny leaves, and hundreds of tiny flowers in season.

There’s 12 other species in the genus - some of them are nearly as odd.