I usually don't venture too much away from our Orchid forum, but as part of this Orchid forum we also like to talk about our companion plants to our Orchids/what else do we grow. The subject of Caudiciforms came up and I started to put my main plants together for a thread by taking some pictures today and I also pulled some older pics to illustrate plants in bloom or leafed out. This is only the end of May and many of my Caudiciforms are still looking bare or just starting to green out.
Perhaps you might enjoy my collection.
Let me start with my Pachypodiums.
left - Pachypodium densiflorum right-horombense - as they were today
older pictures:
Pachypodium densiflorum-
Pachypodium horombense-
dormant Pachy namaquanum - never bloomed
dormant namaquanum x baronii, so far has never bloomed
Pachypodium eburneum - starting to leaf out - never bloomed, but is supposed to bloom white ( I think)
Pachypodium brevicaule - I posted it in bloom here:
http://garden.org/thread/view_...
and since Pachypodium saundersii ( blooms white) is also in that link:
Pachypodium succulentum with a hitchhiker. It usually blooms in late Winter
Pachypodium baronii posted into the lasted Garden thread and is still blooming right now
Pachypodium baronii v. windsorii is a much smaller plant, I took these pictures a couple of years ago
Adenium obesum now
Adenium obesum in Summer
Adenium multiflorum Mombassa now and it looks very cute when in bloom
Zygosicyos tripartitus looks fat now after the rain, in Winter it is fairly flat. It will have long green growth with tiny leaves.
Ciborhiza albersiana will have long winding green growth
Dioscorea macrostachya still dormant today
and in full gear here, green and in bloom
http://garden.org/thread/view_...
Dioscorea sylvatica in need of repotting
Bowiea volubilis
and older picture showing the greenery and in bloom
Gerrardanthus macrorhizus
Jatropha podagrica just starting to grow leaves, this will be a green bush by the end of summer. Showing caudex and flowers.
Matelea macrophylla looks miserable when dormant, but by the end of Summer it is nicely green. The very pretty blooms on this Asclepiad smell quite evil.
Sinningia leucotricha
Fockea species starting to show green and will have green wines all over the place by the end of the Summer
