#apocynaceae

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Stapelia gigantea

Stapelia is the genus that gives its name to the large assemblage of plants known as the stapeliads. Its succulent stems are pliable rather than rigid, and they look much like those found in related genera, except that they have a felted texture rather than being smooth. The flowers are very large (up to 10 inches across, or 25 cm), and the textured ridges on them, as well as the hairs and the foul smell, are features often seen in this group. The reason for the foul smell is to attract the flies that pollinate them. It is a very successful strategy, and this species often spreads spontaneously in gardens. It occurs naturally over a wide area in southern and eastern Africa.

-Brian

[los-plantalones]

2019:

2024:

on this episode of Where Are They Now? we check out this SICKASS huernia who has turned into an octopus and has bloomed SO many times since adulthood

[helluvatimes]

An Ornamental Climber

This that looks like the Mandevilla Madina Maximo Light Pink hanging on a trellis in the South American Garden of the conservatory. Photo credit: Jonathan Chua.

[francescointoppa]

V – Vinca minor L. – Pervinca minore (Apocynaceae)

[snototter]

Adenium oleifolium in the Kalahari desert, South Africa

by jaffles

[syngoniums]

Large milkweed bug (Oncopeltus fasciatus) on Hoya cumingiana. This species of hoya is less vine-like than many, with stiffer, self-supporting stems, and relatively small, thick leaves. These adaptations make it very tolerant of periods of extreme heat and low humidity, and even some direct sun outdoors. In the evenings, the flowers smell strongly of mango and cinnamon.

[faguscarolinensis]

Bombus pensylvanicus on Asclepias tuberosa / American Bumblebee on Butterfly Weed

[wildflowers-of-southern-ontario]

Butterfly Milkweed Asclepias tuberosa Apocynaceae

Photographs taken on August 13, 2023, at Pinery Provincial Park, Ontario, Canada.

[rattyexplores]

Oleander

Nerium oleander

24/03/23 - NSW, Dapto

[haveyoureadthismcytfic]

Summary:

Twenty-two years after the Survival Multiplayer event, Quackity has dreams of attending a law program in a walled city out West. Desperate to pay for expenses during his next semester at ManbergU, he accepts a TA position with his former professor. It's Quackity's last chance to get out of Manberg. It's his worst mistake. [Book 1 COMPLETE, chapters 1-32. Book 2 chapters 33- TBD.]

Author: Apocynaceae

Note from Submitter: this is the single best college AU I have ever read in my life, and I've read a lot of college AUs. there's ghost possession. there's bad sexual decision-making. there's time travel. there's snarls with student housing. there's nonconsensual drug use. there's sorta-dates in an abandoned baseball diamond. there's a genuinely poignant backstory based on quackity's toontown streams. there's parallel dimensions. there's the SCP foundation. there is, and I cannot stress this enough, midterm drama.

[ruthbancroftgarden]

Huernia thuretii

Huernia is one of many genera in the large grouping of succulents known as stapeliads. These plants generally have clusters of cylindrical stems (often knobbly, as seen here) and wonderful starfish-like five-pointed flowers. Lots of them emit unpleasant smells in order to attract flies as pollinators, and this has given them the nickname of 'carrion flowers'. Huernia thuretii is a small species from South Africa's Eastern Cape Province, and the form pictured has very pale yellow flowers with bands of purple (we also have a different form with no purple markings).

-Brian

[blogflores0]

Autor: Olga Guedes

[falseandrealultravival]

Today's Haiku with Picture 993

Red flower

A poisonous plant

It must be

It looks like a flower from the Apocynaceae family.

赤い花

なにやら毒草

なりぬべし

キョウチクトウ科の花に見える。

(2023.08.30)

[francescointoppa]

V – Vincetoxicum hirundinaria Medik. – Vincetossico comune (Apocynaceae)

[syngoniums]

Stapelia leendertziae.

[faguscarolinensis]

Asclepias tuberosa / Butterfly Weed at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC