Re: Mystery succulant decoded

Better than that, Donna, since Mr. Shrub Jay steals all my labels, I title pictures with botanic names and store them in folders with common names within folders with general type names. If you can follow that sort of confused description. For example, pictures of the variegated Portulacaria alba are labeled and stored as "Portulacaria alba01a," "Portulacaria alba01b." and so on [01 being a shoot on a particular day] inside a folder titled "Elephant Bush," inside a folder titled "Succulents," inside a folder titled "Cactus & Succulents," inside a folder titled "Plants," inside a folder... but you get the idea. Whew! Kind of compulsive, what? But it seems to work--so far I've always been able to find the botanical of plants that I more or less remember.


On Thursday, August 19, 2004, at 10:40 PM, Donna wrote:

Hope he makes a tag so he doesn't forget :)

So who id it?


Well, I definitely see the Purslane connection, hadn't realized it
before
when we thought it was a sedum. Feels good to be able to call it by
name,
doesn't it?

Kitty

Kitty and others. My succulents were Portulacaria afra, one green,
one 
variegated. Colorful [common] names are purslane tree [green] and
elephant bush [variegated]. Here are sites to my pictures.

http://davesgarden.com/pdb/showimage/52456/

http://davesgarden.com/pdb/showimage/52454/

great little plant., It is a purslane relative, and the leaves look
a
bit like land cress leaves.

Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]


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Island Jim
Southwest Florida
27.0 N, 82.4 W
Zone 10a
Minimum 30 F [-1 C]

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