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| syn. Ceropegia acacietorum (Schltr. ex Dinter), Ceropegia boerhaaviifolia (Schinz), Ceropegia obscura (N. E. Br.), Ceropegia pachystelma ssp. undulata ((N. E. Br.) H. Huber), Ceropegia schinziana (Bullock), Ceropegia undulata (N. E. Br.) |
| distribution:
Botswana Mozambique Namibia South-Africa: KwaZulu-Natal Swaziland Zimbabwe |
| This species is
one of the most delightful plants in its genus ! (at least to me) It
builds up a very impressing tuber, which can reach the size of a handball
! The leaves are quite large, more or less hard but less succulent, dark green and sometimes purple on the underside. All overground parts of the plant are more or less covered with tiny hairs. When the plant starts to bloom the stems grow faster but are thinner, the leaves are smaller and smaller. The flowers themselves are relatively small and inconspicuously when allone, but they appear in such huge numbers that it is just stunning. The plants have their dormant season within the European winter, at the same time they lost most of their overground parts. |
 left:Ceropegia pachystelma Photo: by courtesy of Cok and Ine Grootscholten Copyright Grootscholten Succulenta nursery, Honselersdijk, The Netherlands http://www.succulenta-kwekerij.nl |
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