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Monadenium
Monadenium ellenbeckii ssp. caulopodium - I like to grow these in hanging
baskets in really good light. New stem will come up from under the soil at the
base of the main stem. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots. - @ $10.00
each
Monadenium lugardae - Is a up-right grower. Growing in 3 1/2 inch. - @ $15.00 each
Monadenium kimberlayana - Is a up-right grower. Has barky stems. Growing in 4 1/2 inch pots. - @ $15.00
each
Monadenium magnificum -
Monadenium
magnificum
is a sparsely branched shrub up to 1,5-2(-3,5) m tall with cactus-like features
that generally don't come into growth until the summer.
Monadenium magnificum grows
on red soils in dry deciduous woodland with Acacia and in Commiphora bushland
in lightly shaded conditions at the foot of the hills. The few known populations
are very limited with no more than 40-50 individuals at each locality.
The stems
has a succulent caudiciform tuber less than 10 cm wide, with 1 to several
grey-green branches 4 to 5 angled, spreading or weakly erect, pale-green to 4 cm
thick at the base and 1-2 cm thick above.
The leaves are ephemeral,
large, oval, dark-glossy green, nicely marked with paler veining, older leaves
often tinged with reddish-purple and the main rib on the underside of the leaves
is heavily spined. The leaves shed when the plant produces its small flowers.
Spines green-brownish to reddish-purple irregular or regular many-forked
star-shaped more or less randomly scattered over the surface of the stem along
the angle of the stem.
Flowers are remarkably
spectacular, born at apex of stem, small, dark-pink, enveloped in scarlet bracts
and borne on long, rich red, quadrangular stalk that bears fewer cartilaginous
prickles.
Blooming very
late in the year November to April.
Tanzania, Mpwapwa, Galoe Valley. These are
cuttings. Growing in 4 1/2 inch pots. -
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Monadenium rennyi - Up right grower. Leaves and stems will have a reddish green
color. Growing in 3 1/2 inch pots. - @ $13.00 each
Monadenium schubei 'Tanzania Red' (This one came to me decades ago from
Aridland's Nursery as Monadenium sp. 'Tanzania Red'. Thick stems that will
branch with age. When grown in good light it holds it's purplish red color and
will have leaves in the growing season. Up-right grower. These a growing in 3
1/2 inch pots. - @ $35.00 each
Monadeniun stoloniferum
- Fat tubers with red stems and leaves. Will need to have
good light to keep it's purplish red color. These are growing in 3 inch pots. -
@
$10.00 each