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Post by ellsie on Sept 18, 2019 16:09:22 GMT -5
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Post by dvg on Sept 18, 2019 16:26:34 GMT -5
What a wonderfully compact citrus, at only a foot tall. Have not seen nor heard of a finger lime before, so great to see your plant Elsie. Does the pulp taste similar to that of a typical store bought lime? Do the flowers have a pleasant aroma? Thanks for sharing and for starting this thread! dvg
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Post by ellsie on Sept 18, 2019 17:20:04 GMT -5
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Post by bonfield on Sept 19, 2019 8:12:18 GMT -5
Great thread topic, and those limes look delicious! For me, it would have to be Monnierara Millenium Magic 'Witchcraft'. Mine's not doing much at the moment, but here is a pic of it in bloom. It has the intense fragrance of fresh cracked peppercorns, only sweeter!
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Post by dvg on Sept 19, 2019 12:20:03 GMT -5
Those are very nice...and dark - darker than black satin... ...darker than the black pot they're moored in. dvg
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Post by perrywing on Sept 19, 2019 17:05:41 GMT -5
ellsie Wow, what a neat tree! Can't say I've ever heard of that one! It's always fun caring for plants, but keeping plants that give something back is even more awesome! Do you keep it inside all year? How big does it get? bonfield Wow, I've never seen a plant that black before. Impressive! I'm guessing it's a cultivar/hybrid and not natural? For my favourite non-CP plant, I'd have to go with my gynura aurantiaca, my purple passion. It's a flowering evergreen perennial in the daisy family that hails from Java. The younger leaves are purple and iridescent and change from dark to light purple when viewed from different angles. This is due to the soft purple hairs that cover the leaves like velvet, and the silvery coloration of the leaf itself. They produce fragrant orange flowers but in doing so will lose their purple fuzz. Older leaves turn dark green so I pinch the plant quite often to keep it small and purple. It's one of those picky plants that love water but suffer from root rot quite easily. It enjoys cooler temperatures, around 15 C. Not the most impressive or exotic thing I own, but definitely pretty unique I think.
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Post by kell27 on Sept 20, 2019 14:23:47 GMT -5
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Post by bonfield on Sept 20, 2019 23:40:15 GMT -5
bonfield Wow, I've never seen a plant that black before. Impressive! I'm guessing it's a cultivar/hybrid and not natural? I know, neither have I! It's a hybrid between Catanoches Midnight Jem and Mormodes sinuata. That purple passion is beautiful, I'm guessing the pictures don't do it justice compared to seeing it up close. Some of my NOIDs aren't that exotic either, but if they have iridescence, I usually hang on to a few of them!
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Post by ellsie on Sept 22, 2019 23:00:20 GMT -5
bonfield I can stop admiring the picture you put up of your Monnierara Millenium Magic 'Witchcraft'.....staring and staring.....and there goes half of my morning! Is your orchid actually black or is it a very very dark purple? And what a bonus that it's a fragrant orchid! perrywing Wow! Your gynura aurantiaca is such a unique plant! I've never seen a purple and iridescent plant before! Is it a heavy drinker? How do you prevent root rot? I think I may have killed some related plants in this family What do the orange flowers smell like? As for my Australian lime tree, I think that it's as big as it's going to get, at about a foot tall, and yes I do keep it indoors all year. I have a few other citrus plants that I tried to keep outdoors, but they are all now in quarantine, since some parts are covered in scale insects (they are VERY VERY difficult to get rid of!) kell27 Your Monstera 'Thai Constellation' is so pretty! I wish you luck in growing your plant! Does it require lots of light or shade? What are your growing conditions?
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Post by bonfield on Sept 23, 2019 18:39:09 GMT -5
bonfield I can stop admiring the picture you put up of your Monnierara Millenium Magic 'Witchcraft'.....staring and staring.....and there goes half of my morning! Is your orchid actually black or is it a very very dark purple? And what a bonus that it's a fragrant orchid! Lol, when it was flowering, I would go into the room intending to get work done, but would inevitably become sidetracked doing the same thing. It is technically a very very dark purple, but to the eye and in most photos it appears pitch black! The fragrance is noticeable from a distance, and would make a great scent for a candle.
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Post by perrywing on Oct 2, 2019 21:45:18 GMT -5
ellsie Thanks! It's actually not that heavy a drinker, I find, because it likes to be kept in cooler conditions, so the soil tends to stay wetter longer. But you're not allowed to let it dry out, or it will have a hissy fit and faint like the biggest drama queen. Also it will die if it's too wet for too long. There's a small sweet spot, for sure! But I'd rather it faint from thirst than die of rot, so I always let it get a little rubbery before I water it again. So far this has prevented root rot! Also, the flowers actually smell pretty bad, almost like a carrion flower, or dirty socks. Not nice. They're not even that pretty, so I just don't let it flower. That sucks about your scale problem! Pests are never fun, and they never seem to truly go away. Speaking of, I should probably spray all my plants outside before I bring them in for the winter. It's getting pretty cold out!
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Post by perrywing on Oct 2, 2019 21:48:03 GMT -5
bonfield Thanks! Yes, it's definitely much nicer in person. You can never really photograph iridescence, I find! Wow, I had no idea neps could be iridescent! Which part of them grows it? Most importantly, do you have any pictures, because I must see this now! Haha!
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Post by bonfield on Oct 3, 2019 22:43:12 GMT -5
It's not truly iridescent, but the rear interior of the pitchers on some of my NOIDs(they resemble bongso) has this smokey purple hue that seems to almost be floating just above the surface and does seem a bit more intense from some angles. It doesn't really show as well in the pic.
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Post by dvg on Oct 4, 2019 11:47:30 GMT -5
I know what you mean there Cole, and have seen it myself in some of my own Nep pitchers. It appears to have some depth to it, hovering just above the surface, kind of like those 3D picture cards that have their images change ever so slightly when the card is shifted from side to side, back and forth, forward to back. It is an interesting optical effect with the interiors of some Nepenthes pitchers, usually the darker hued ones. dvg
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Post by ellsie on Oct 7, 2019 13:12:11 GMT -5
sounds like another evolutionary step in these tropical pitcher plants.....holographic neps!
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