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  Ceropegia fusca CACTUS ART
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This is probably the most fashionable succulent Ceropegia known.

 

 

Description: It makes a very handsome pot plant as the stems grow upright in tight formation looking something like glaucous, grey organ pipes. The plant forms woody stems reaching to 1.5 m The stems taper from a diameter of just over 12mm at the base, diminishing at the nodes, to just under a 6mm in the last node.

At each node and on the tip of the stem appears two needle-like leaves 5 cm long arranged in opposite pairs, they are deciduous and wilt quickly if there isn't enough water.

Care: Full to part sun, moderate water in warm season, drier in winter. It requires hot conditions and how much sun as possible to grow well.

 


Blooms in clusters of two to five in the leaf axils;


Flower tubular, reddish brown, with five narrow lobes united at the tip; flowering is in spring to summer.

 


The new shoots grows from the plant base.

The fruit is a pair of large follicle up to 10 cm long.

 

 

 

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Family: Asclepiadaceae (Apocynaceae)  (Milkweeds family)

Origin: It is endemic to the Canary Islands, where it grows on Tenerife (especially the Macizo de Anaga area), Gran Canaria and La Palma at up to about 600 m altitude where it forms large upright open shrubs.
 


The new shoot is of a bright chocolate colour nicely contrasting with the grey  colour of the older one.

 

 
 

 

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