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I grow all the plants in these photos--long-term relationships best described as détente.
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Lebombone @lebombone.bsky.social · May 19
My POS (Plant of Shame)
Tylecodon reticulatus
#succulents #caudiciforms #tylecodon #plantofshame
Photo of a mature plant, approximately 15 cm tall. Purchased as a rooted cutting in 2016, already with a dense reticulate crown leftover from previous inflorescence. The plant was oozing pink goo when it arrived and had to be rehabilitated for 20 months before going back into the pot for another attempt at rooting. That process took another two years. The crown had to be trimmed off because you can't walk near the thing without it snaging on something. I keep it in a heavy pot to force me to be careful when I move it. It is growing in full sun, inside a wire cage built to protect it from squirrels and birds. T. reticulatus is classified as "Least Concern" but its population in habitat is declining due to aggressive collection. When I bought it in 2016, I only checked its conversvation status and assumed it was grown from seeds (the seller had a solid reputation and had been in business for decades--definitely enough time and experience to have grown such plants from seeds). Although it was diseased on arrival, it had the magnificent weathered look only found in habitat-collected plants, especially caudiciforms. I may be wrong, but I don't think I am. So, well. Shit. I have since gone into several rabbitholes, learned some depressing shit and hardened on what plants I will and will not buy. Still, I own a habitat-collected plant. I am embarrassed that I have it, but here we are. Oh, and it is blooming for the first time. At least I didn't fucking kill it.
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Eh?
#succulents #cactus #plantsky
Eriosyce occulta
Eriosyce occulta, single plant with fruit. It does this every autumn, sometimes two at a time, not always with actual seeds. Never got any of it to germinate, though; probably should research it for real at some point.
September 6, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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#succulents #bloomscrolling #plantsky 🪴
Adenium obesum, "Rik Ni Ran" cultivar, grafted. Adenium obesum cultivar from a cultivator in Taiwan, Mr Ko. He has since retired but his nursery used to be the hot thing in the 2010s. This one, he called "Star of Black Night". Yes, they all had names like that; I will bet it's an awkward translation into English.
August 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Tylecodon tuberosus, terror-inducing bloom
#succulents #bloomscrolling #plants 🪴
Hard to tell with these plants, so far out of their native habitat. They are either blooming because they are content or giving you a final show before they curdle and die. You don't get to find out until autumn whether the post-bloom curdle is death or dormancy.
July 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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Summer mesembs
#mesembs
Monilaria moniliformis. Conophytum obcordellum declinatum, surrounded by (clockwise from left) some gibbaeum, adromischus, Ihlenfeldtia, mitrophyllum, titanopsis. Most if not all conophytum, when shedding old leaves like these, should not be watered. Mitrophyllum grande. These are dormant and very turgid from the ambient humidity. The cluster started from a single plant from Mesa Gardens
July 20, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Tylecodon reticulatus
#succulents #fatplants #caudiciforms 🪴 #macrophotography
Photo taken with a normal phone camera. Cluster of T. reticulatus flowers. The flower stalks harden to hard spikes after the flowers die off. This cutting has bloomed before but the spikes had to be trimmed off while it was recovering from a mystery infection. This is the first time the plant has bloomed since. Nikon D780 with kit lens and Kenko extension tubes on a tripod with focus rail. Macro shot of a couple of T. reticulatus flowers. Each is about 8 to 10 mm long and 3 to 5 mm across. They are odorless to me but then, I'm not a bug.
July 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Mammillaria duwei
#cactus #suculents #plantsky #bloomscrolling
June 14, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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#bloomscrolling
June 13, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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When you have plants that hate tap water, this is the most important growing equipment.
#garden #plants
June 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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Haworthia bayeri x Haworthia bayeri cv "Aboukyuu"
From hand-pollination to pod ripening for seed harvest: 5 months.
#succulents #haworthia #plants
June 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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#bloomscrolling
#yard
#plants
A blooming clump of a creeping plant. I don't know what it is. Mixed groundcover sedum with sporadic asiatic lilies. When your MIL succeeds spectacularly, planting various peonies in random spots in the yard. Some kind of extremely slow-growing dwarf lilac.
May 20, 2025 at 1:53 PM
lebombone.bsky.social
My POS (Plant of Shame)
Tylecodon reticulatus
#succulents #caudiciforms #tylecodon #plantofshame
Photo of a mature plant, approximately 15 cm tall. Purchased as a rooted cutting in 2016, already with a dense reticulate crown leftover from previous inflorescence. The plant was oozing pink goo when it arrived and had to be rehabilitated for 20 months before going back into the pot for another attempt at rooting. That process took another two years. The crown had to be trimmed off because you can't walk near the thing without it snaging on something. I keep it in a heavy pot to force me to be careful when I move it. It is growing in full sun, inside a wire cage built to protect it from squirrels and birds. T. reticulatus is classified as "Least Concern" but its population in habitat is declining due to aggressive collection. When I bought it in 2016, I only checked its conversvation status and assumed it was grown from seeds (the seller had a solid reputation and had been in business for decades--definitely enough time and experience to have grown such plants from seeds). Although it was diseased on arrival, it had the magnificent weathered look only found in habitat-collected plants, especially caudiciforms. I may be wrong, but I don't think I am. So, well. Shit. I have since gone into several rabbitholes, learned some depressing shit and hardened on what plants I will and will not buy. Still, I own a habitat-collected plant. I am embarrassed that I have it, but here we are. Oh, and it is blooming for the first time. At least I didn't fucking kill it.
May 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Tylecodon paniculatus, 13yo
#succulents #caudiciforms
South African shrub, supposedly grows up to over a meter. This one is fairly young, about 18 cm. Never seen it bloom yet.
March 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Mitrophyllum clivorum, first true leaves.
#mesembs #succulents #macrophotography #plantsky📷🪴
Extreme close-up of two fleshy leaves just emerging from their cotyledons. They look like a couple of sticks with green glassy bubbles stuck to them. From seeds sown in Feb2025. One-year survival rate is typically about 30 percent. It is definitely higher if you are careful and actively paying attention. (Nikon d780 with LAOWA 25mm macro and extension tubes. Forgot the diffuser)
March 21, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Reposted by Lebombone
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Adenium arabicum, 12 yo
#succulents #caudiciforms #seedgrown 📷🪴
Grown from Mark Dimmit seeds sown in 2012. Leaves start to grow back when temps rise above 25C.
March 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Adenium arabicum, 12 yo
#succulents #caudiciforms #seedgrown 📷🪴
Grown from Mark Dimmit seeds sown in 2012. Leaves start to grow back when temps rise above 25C.
March 20, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Cintia knizei regen!
#cactus #succulents #macrophotography #plantsky 📷🪴🌵
Plant base left over from..well, radical pruning. The top part of the plant is probably rooting (or dying) right next to it, but the rooted base might succeed, too. A nub of cactus about 1mm across, smaller than the grains of sifted lava granules used for topping. Nikon d780 with LAOWA 25mm macro and extension tubes.
March 16, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Pleiospilos simulans, from seeds.
#mesembs #succulents #plantsky #macrophotography
📷🪴
2020 batch of seeds from Mesa Gardens. Pleiospilos leaves , in general, grow in fleshy pairs. Except this one, for some reason. d780 with LAOWA 25mm macro and extender. No flash.
March 15, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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Cintia knizei, from seed. Blooming before death. Or not.
#succulents #cactus #plantsky 📷🪴
Golden yellow flower with rust-colored highlights. The flower is about 1.5 cm across, almost covering the entire plant underneath. Plant stress can sometimes trigger inflorescence. This one was cut from its original etiolated base. It is either forming new roots and blooming on schedule OR blooming before it dies.
March 14, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Cheiridopsis pecularis, struggling cohorts.
Uniform conditions, different outcome. Shit happens sometimes.
#succulents #mesembs #plants
📷🪴
Five year-old clump of fleshy mesembs with paired leaves growing in cycles: first pair is fully separate and the second pair is separate only about a third of the way from the tips. This clump was sown in Oct 2020 from a packet of 20 seeds. This distressed clump came from the same seedling pot but never managed to really take off. Nursing them in their original pot with the rest of the rumbunctious clump has become annoying so they had to be separated.
March 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Illegal collecting #Chile #cacti
www.bbc.com/future/artic...
Operation Atacama: The $1m cactus heist that led to a smuggler's downfall
After thousands of rare Chilean cacti were found in the house of an Italian collector, a years-long trial slowly unravelled how they got there.
www.bbc.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Trichodiadema mirabile +1 , Plantus noidea
#succulents 📷🪴
#mesembs
Purchased around 2016, this was hurriedly shoved into this pot and then basically forgotten. You can spot another trichodiadema (looks like but isn't bulbosum) species in the pot and now they have to be separated.
March 6, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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More leaves
Trichodiadema bulbosum, annual pruning.
#succulents
#mesembs
No, it isn't a bonsai. This ridiculously easy mesemb grows this way, naturally. Zero effort required. That thing that looks like a fat trunk is actually its enlarged root (caudex) where, as a practicing succulent, it stores water. The plant (shrub, not tree; still NOT bonsai) gets scraggly if untrimmed so it needs an annual pruning. Sometimes things get stuck in the thicket, discoverable only after hard pruning.
March 2, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Leaves, just leaves.
#mesembs
#succulents 📷🪴
Aloinopsis luckhoffii Aloinopsis malherbei Aloinopsis rubrolineata Aloinopsis schooneesi
March 1, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Winter bloomseses
#succulents #indoorplants 📷🪴
#flowers
(timer/alarm strongly recommended)
The plant is a cross between Nananthus vittatus and Aloinopsis spathulata (don't ask) which explains the odd color combining the magenta blooms of the first and the yellow bloom of the latter. The flower starts to open in late afternoon before fully unfurling right before dusk. Use a timer or you'll go insane trying to catch it open (which lasts for less than an hour). Aloinopsis malherbei...difficult to catch open. This plant had a total of 7 buds, missed the first five. The bloom opens at dusk and is only open for less than an hour. The petals have a touch of cadmium yellow that darkens towards the tips. Neohenricia sibbettii. It smells like sugared coconut. The booms open after sundown, in the dark. Even the low and distant light from a PC monitor can prevent it from opening. Then you only have about half an hour to photograph it before the light forces it to close. smh.
February 20, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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@gamersnexus.bsky.social Finally.
What of GN's CEO?
#CatsOfBSKY
February 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM