Rhytidocaulon macrolobumLavranos
Ceropegia macroloba , Rhytidocaulon macrolobumsubsp.macrolobum
Family : ApocynaceaeSubfamily : AsclepiadoideaeGenus : Rhytidocaulon
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Rhytidocaulon macrolobumis aboriginal toSaudi Arabia , Yemen , andSomalia .
Rhytidocaulon macrolobumis a small succulent with obscurely 4 - tilt light to dark brown stems with a wrinkle grain and spear - shaped to narrowly triangular leaf first principle . The stems are solitary or sparingly branched . The primary stems are up to 12 inches ( 30 curium ) long and up to 0.8 inches ( 2 cm ) in diam . branch are shorter and more slender .
The flowers are up to 0.8 column inch ( 2 cm ) across and appear in 1- to 3 - flower blossoming on very short stalks in fall . They pass off a strong scent of decompose plant material with a citric tendency . The corolla lobe are velvety , whitish to green towards the base , with sorry purple transverse telephone line or coarse office , dingy dull purpleness , brown , or dismal fleeceable apical one-half , and two clump of a few purplish lash near the apex . The Saint Ulmo’s light in the shopping mall of the flower is purple - red with a white base .
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USDA hardiness zone9a to 11b : from 25 ° F ( −3.9 ° C ) to 50 ° F ( +10 ° C ) .
Stapeliads are relatively easy to grow . However , they should be treated as outdoor plants as they will easily rot indoors and can not flower without exposure to outdoor temperature fluctuations . They should be grow under cover so that lacrimation can be ascertain . They require a sensible amount of sunlight to promote flowering and maintain a well - mold plant . Very shady position will produce very poor flowering . Stapeliads amount from climates where they survive extremely high temperatures in the summer months , so most emergence is in saltation and fall , with anthesis in autumn when the weather pop out to chill down . Water in relief when take in the grow season , ensuring the soil is passably dried out between watering . Do not water between November 1 and March 1 .
The easy and best way to propagate Stapeliads is from stem cuttings , which can be take virtually throughout the twelvemonth . Using the seed is also a method acting of propagation .
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See more atHow to Grow and Care for Stapeliads .
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