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for people interested in Adeniums and Pachypodiums. To learn, to teach and provide interest for all our members. Pictures will be an important part of this group contrasting to Yahoo which strips all photos off messages. Photos are a vital part of information exchange.
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What constitutes a picotee?
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The Royal Horticultural Society's Dictionary of Gardening defines a picotee
as: "Picotee - applied to flowers with a thin band of contrasting colour at
the edge of each petal". Note the word thin. Yasmin, most of your recent
photos could in no way be called picotees, they are bi-colours. Here are... more »
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Volcano
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Thank you Steve for bringing an important point about nomenclature.
'Volcano' is indeed listed by Adenium Center but it looks to be a rather
inferior cultivar - has anyone flowered it yet?
I took some more photos of my cultivar this morning - - which do you think
most resembles a volcano? My one has actual brilliant orange in the flower.... more »
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An Atypical Small Red Plum x Red Sinfonia
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This is one of the last of this batch to flower. Most have been very dark but as you can see this one is very pale and quite pleasing. You can see that it is going to be very floriferous.
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Small Red Plum x Fragrant Delight
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This is the first of this cross to flower, which it did this week. I was hoping to broaded the white picotee of 'Small Red Plum'. I didn't succeed but the flower is quite pleasing. Hopefully some of its siblings may produce the result I was hoping for.
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New seedling
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This seedling flowerered for the first time this week. It was rather slow, most of the batch flowered last year. The last photo is an old one of a graft of 'Star of Red Sparkles' which I received from Mr. ko some time ago.
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Seeds available
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I have had many requests to supply seeds. I have resisted until now. However, I have re-made the cross ‘Spindrift’ x ‘Desert Star’ and have some seeds available. This cross produced some outstanding seedlings, including ‘Miss Venezuela’ and ‘Pink Pearl’. ‘Desert Star’ is also the parent of ‘Beauty... more »
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Red Aurora x Home Run
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'Red Aurora' is possibly my favourite red, with its lovely deep scarlet colour and incredibly white eye, it is almost perfect. Dr. Dimmitt's favourite red is (or was) 'Home Run'. So I crossed them together and this is the happy result.
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Super Noble Concubine x (Beauty Cloud II x Super Noble Concubine)
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This is what happened when I backcrossed 'Beauty Cloud II' x 'Super Noble Concubine' onto 'Super Noble Concubine. This seedling flowered for the first time this week. The second photo is of the seedling. I am also attaching photos of the parents for your interest.
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