Hi. I don't know what this is. My aunt gave me a piece of this plant about 10 yrs ago. She had it in a hanging basket on her back porch. It gets a pink colored flowers on it, in the summer. I leave it outside till frost comes. Then bring it in.

I'm not sure but it reminds me of Starfish Plant (Ceropegia gigantea)

Thank you! That's exactly the flowers that bloom. Wrote in down so I won't forget.

Except that this is not a Ceropegia, but rather Stapelia gigantea.

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@zuzu @Australis

Never mind, I seem to remember I asked this before..... Didn't realize those guys are now called Ceropegia. ( .....as synonym. Kew still has Stapelia listed as accepted name. )

Thank you Ursula. I agree with you 100% but someone is about to point out to you that The Catalogue of Life seems to have moved Stapelia gigantea to Ceropegia gigantea.

Yes, I just realized that!
You know, only a person who never grew either Ceropegias or Stapelias must have done that.

I just checked - The Catalogue of life also lists it as Stapelia gigantea as the accepted name.

LOL, I never even noticed the name change! I searched the database for Stapelia gigantea because that's what Susalie's plant reminded me of. It amazes me how plants are being moved from one genus to another anymore; difficult to keep up with all the name changes.

The only plant I knew as Ceropegia is the one below that I grew a number of years back. It's a vine with no visible similarities whatsoever to the Starfish plant that I thought was still considered Stapelia.

The Stapelia genus no longer exists. All of its species have been reclassified as species of Ceropegia. I don't know where you found your information, Ursula, but the Catalogue of Life clearly lists S. gigantea as a synonym. It was a fairly recent change, so you may have been looking at an outdated CoL entry.

http://www.catalogueoflife.org...

Also, I never received notification that you were summoning me in this thread. I see that you edited that post. If you added my name in an edit, the summons would not work.

Zuzu, sorry! Yes, I must have come across an outdated entry.
I must accept that Genera of Succulents also undergo major changes.This one is a bit tough to swallow though.
I suppose I have to quit using Kew as they disagree.

my apology

Kew will catch up, Ursula. I think Kew doesn't update as frequently as the CoL. This particular one was a major taxonomic change, involving dozens of genera, including some that had always been difficult to distinguish from one another, at least for me. I no longer have to wonder whether something's a Stapelia or a Huernia, or possibly an Orbea. They're all Ceropegias now.

Well that's just sad.