Persian Carpet Succulent

The stems have sharp green to red teeth.

Persian carpet succulent. This plant can measure up to 30 cm long and approximately 4 cm in diameter. It is a nice addition to your collection of plants especially if you have it displayed in a beautiful pot. When it blooms you will enjoy pale yellow flowers. The five angled stems are 2 3cm in diameter more or less branched and armed with hard brown very acute spinelike teeth.

They are bait flowers so that these are pollinated by flies in nature. The flowers with hairy margins are approximately 12 5 cm in diameter. The glabrousstems are 4 or 5 angled and armed with regularly placed hard and acute spinelike teeth ortubercules. Edithcolea grandis persian carpet flower edithcolea grandis is a succulent with no leaves.

Edithcolea grandis is a succulent plant with leafless richly branched perennial and decumbent stems with a diameter of 3 4 2cm up to 1 1 2 4cm at a multi branched stem and up to 12 30cm in length. Browse pictures and read growth cultivation information about ceropegia species persian carpet flower ceropegia sordida supplied by member gardeners in the plantfiles database at dave s garden. Persian carpet flower origin. This page contains affiliate links.

The remarkable flower is at times described as the persian carpet flower. Edithcolea grandis is a succulent plant with leafless richly branched perennial and decumbent stems with a diameter of 2 to 4 cm and up to 30 cm in length. Edithcolea grandis is a one of the handsomest and most distinct of all the stapelioid group. The genus is named after edith cole 1859 1940.

The glabrous stems are 4 or 5 angled and armed with regularly placed hard and acute spine like. Edithcolea grandis persian carpet flower is a succulent with leafless richly branched stems and attractive pale yellow flowers with red brown spots. Edithcolea is a monotypic genus with a single species edithcolea grandis persian carpet flower once classified in the family asclepiadaceae it is now in the subfamily asclepiadoideae of the dogbane family apocynaceae it is native to africa and to the arabian peninsula. The genus edithcolea only contains this species and is found in warm dry areas.

The flowers of this succulent from africa have a very distinct look resembling the pattern of a persian carpet and can be 13 cm large. The sharply toothed 4 or 5 angled stems are grey green to red in color with brownish spots and up to 30 cm in length and 2 4 cm in diameter. General care for edithcolea grandis persian carpet flower this succulent type is a unique one that blooms in the spring. She collected the type material for this plant with lort philips in.