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FREE: Rare Flowering Succulent Starfish Plant Thornless Stapelia Flavopurpurea Carrion Family

Rare Flowering Succulent Starfish Plant Thornless Stapelia Flavopurpurea  Carrion Family
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The listing, Rare Flowering Succulent Starfish Plant Thornless Stapelia Flavopurpurea Carrion Family has ended.

You get one good size section of this plant or a rooted baby.
Very Unique it needs heat, sun & shade, well drained soil. Does well potted or in ground where temperatures permit.
I don't have picture of blossom from my plant but will post one that looks similar if not it from memory. Also posted is a picture of another blossom.
DON'T plant this near flower sniffers! Smelling this flower could be offensive! Blossom starts as a balloon like pod with a pointed end then opens to a beautiful star. The blooms mouth is in the center and it uses flies for pollination by making stinky smell!
Use sandy well drained soil!
http://www.oregongardener.com/blog/archives/69-Stapelia-Star-Flower.html
Genus Stapelia consists of around 40 species of low-growing, spineless, stem succulent plants, predominantly from South Africa. The flowers of certain species, most notably Stapelia gigantea, can reach 41 cm (16 inches) in diameter when fully open. Most Stapelia flowers are visibly hairy and generate the odor of rotten flesh; a notable exception is the sweetly-scented Stapelia flavopurpurea. Such odors serve to attract various specialist pollinators including, in the case of carrion-scented blooms.The flies frequently lay eggs around the coronae of Stapelia flowers, convinced by the plants' deception.
The hairy, oddly textured and colored appearance of many Stapelia flowers has been claimed to resemble that of rotting meat, and this, coupled with their odor, has earned the most commonly grown members of the Stapelia genus the common name of "carrion flowers".
A handful of species are commonly cultivated as pot plants and are even used as rockery plants in countries where the climate permits. Stapelia are good container plants and can grow well under full sun and light to moderate watering. They should be planted in well-drained compost as the stems are prone to rotting if kept moist for long.
Shipping is $2.75 please it helps.
Questions & Comments
Original
Hello dear hope everything is going well for you?
pleasure to see your auction again I`m here to try for this one now.
I`m keeping my fingers crossed..
May 29th, 2014 at 10:24:05 PM PDT by
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Hello Brian good to see you too:-)
If you are bidding good luck and hope you get what you want:-)
Blessings
May 30th, 2014 at 7:04:50 AM PDT by
Original
Sorry I`ve been all over with so many auctions like a chicken with head cut off. lol
Thanks for the welcome again really great to hear from ya also.
Wanted to ask you on the air plants do they have normal seeds that are really tiny and brown by the tons?
I was just wondering I have a bunch of them now seeds and still have several plants.
gave some to my mom and a couple of close friends and kept the rest for myself I just have to mist them a lot since the A/C is on and the air is really dry for them.
May 31st, 2014 at 5:13:22 PM PDT by
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Yes those are the seeds. They travel in the air and propagate themselves on trees and plants when conditions are right. Can't be planted in dirt as it makes them sick!
May 31st, 2014 at 8:13:34 PM PDT by
Original
Yes it really would be nice to get more of this start to add with the other to make a little bigger pot to fill together.
So far so go all the plants are doing great. Keeping my finger crossed..
Hope your having a wonderful evening.
May 31st, 2014 at 5:15:19 PM PDT by
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Yes,I hear you they do grow well and don't fill a pot they grow down the side. If you want pot full then take little shoots and plant them or fill in with other plants or ground cover.
May 31st, 2014 at 8:14:57 PM PDT by
Original
ok Thanks for the advice I may miss this one anyways since I have a appoint me about the time this one gonna end that I remembered about.
Not unless I`m a little late for it. :)
Was the purple 2 called something like a wandering Jew cause they kinda remind me of those.
Jun 1st, 2014 at 9:20:45 PM PDT by

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