Adromischus are an extremely variable genus found throughout the drier parts of Southern Africa and the hotter, sunnier and drier it is, the more they like it. They love my greenhouse and are happiest in the hottest, brightest part of it. Although they look like miniature trees, they don't do well as pot plants on a windowsill in a house so they are niche plants for succulent freaks and like lithops, you can never have just one...
Adromischus roanianus
Adromischus are extremely easy to propagate from leaves and some of them throw their leaves off at the slightest touch although they are pretty slow, the one with the spiky ball leaf has taken years to get to that point, the one at the back of the photo is about one year and the one on the left about 8 months old
Although they grow easily from leaves, they die very easily from fungus, especially the weirdest-looking and most expensive types that grow in the semi-desert areas of the Western Cape. The next 3 pictures are all forms of Adromischus marianae
Adromischus are so variable they are grouped very broadly to keep the number of species to a managable level and they are classified into sections according to the flower forms and so there are 5 sections. These are a few of them and sometimes the only way to identify plants is to see the flowers which will give a category and then if you know where the plant comes from, you can figure out the species
Many people just cut the flower stalks off because they are large and the weight makes the plants fall over but then they miss out on the new plants that form on the end of the stem which is another reproduction strategy to - the leaning process makes the plantlets touch the ground and take root nearby the mother plant as you can see with the Adromischus cristatus below
Another consequence of the leaning: small plantlets start to form at the base of the stem until you have a small bush
You might have been wondering about all the hairs on the stem of the first picture, here's another subspecies of cristatus: These grow in the Eastern Cape where sea fogs are common so they grow roots on the stems to collect moisture from the air.
The pictures below are just a few examples of all the different forms of this interesting genus of plants
Adromischus sphenophyllus
And another form of Adromischus sphenophyllus
Adromischus caryophyllaceus is like a tiny little tree.
Adromischus schuldtianus comes from the Western semi-desert areas
Adromischus cooperi (I think)
Another, more commonly grown form of cooperi
Adromischus filicaulis, another semi-desert type that gets fungus really easily. I lost the mother plant to fungus one cool rainy summer but I managed to regrow it from a single surviving leaf
Adromischus hemisphaericus has a powdery leaf, as a form of sun-screen
Adromischus humilis is the smallest of them all and those with sharp eyes will notice the Haworthia seedlings in the pot!
the name Adromischus maculatus suggests spots but this one doesn't have any
Finally, Adromischus umbraticola grows in my home province and tolerates a large amount of rain in summer
Do I have them all? Hell, no! I won't bore you with any more of my pictures, I hope you enjoyed this little trip into one of my plant obsessions
Waooo!!! What rare succulents @nikv 🤩🤩 of all the Adromischus the ones I liked the most are the ones in the photo. I had never seen them and in my country even less 😁. They are very coarse similar to the leaves of the Gasterias. They are all very nice friends... Nice collection thanks for sharing in the community. 🤗👏.
Those are exactly the ones that cannot stand humidity, that's why they are rare
Yes... they adapt well to my country 🇨🇺. The truth is very exotic @nikv
I want to see if I take some nice shots of Adenium from the garden to make a post in the next few days....
Yes please!
Ow.... I didn't know this about Adromischus cristatus, but I didn't cut off the flower stem either... However, after blooming, the whole plant just twisted and withered and eventually died 🤐 Luckily, one other baby plant grew before this happened.
The one with funny, rounded big leaves (Adromischus maculatus) is so cool; I love that one 😌
It sounds like it caught fungus and died, I have had that happen quite a few times. I'm glad you had another that survived
The baby survivor, now living with a Blushing auntie :D
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So pretty! I really like marianae and how weird thei look, but I am afraid I will kill them, like I did my favourite festivus.
I still have cooperi and another one that I didn't ID (grown from a leaf found in a shop shelf :p)
Adros are easy to grow but they die easily if the weather turns weird. Show me a picture of your leaf, I'm getting better at IDs on these
It already managed to grow. It keeps dropping the leaves though and they root and grow new plants around :p
I brought it inside now as I dont want it to get too wet over the winter.
I think its a filicaulis. Better to keep it drier in winter
Thanks! I went looking for it now and fund something more similar. The leaves have this triangle tips like halesowensis or marianae var. kubusensis .
The other one died in summer... I think it cooked :p
Wow! They are hard to cook. You'll be able to ID it properly when it flowers: that will tell you the section
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Great save 😅
I like the ones with bumpy surfaces on the (mostly) round leaves in the fourth picture. Looks like a sugary breakfast cereal 😆 what a collection you have or maybe addiction haha fun post 🙂
Thank you! Everyone likes the freaky ones (me too)
Wow! You have so many succulents. Those little ones with tiny flowers are very charming. Now I know they are not as boring as I thought! 🙀😂
They are never boring