u/Jackfruit-Maleficent

now I wanna go hiking!

Pics:

1. Apparent 'Byakuya' hybrid. From a stray seed in a non-Byakuya cross seed packet from Sandy's Haworthia Garden). I love the tower look it's developed with age!
2. Aboukyuu x unknown. From Renny seed.
3. Two more Aboukyuu x unknown.
4. Euphorbia platyclada seedling from Arid Lands. This one looks more "mossy". My two others are more pink. I grow them like I grow my Haworthias, except a bit more water.

All but two are George Theodoris (Artisan Plants) 1st generation parksiana hybrids (parksiana as one parent).

• Row 2, left side as tagged is a parksiana species from Arid Lands. Locality is D- D- (the one that sometimes triggers social media hate speech filters).
• Row 4, left side is a 2nd generation parksiana hybrid (parksiana as one grandparent).

both from HaworthiaLand in October 2023:

• L: v nigricans 'venteri', DMC13645, Voorbaat
• R: 'scottii', near Dongas station, SE Calitzdorp

Pics

1. 'Chocolate' from Home Depot! (US $6)
2. slower seedlings homegrown from seed, all 4-5 yrs old from Renny seed
3. Arid Lands Cyphostemma seedlings: hardyi (Apr 2024), quinatum (Nov 2024), hardyi (Jun 2025). Hardyi drop leaves in October and I wake them up in March/April with water and heat mat. Quinatum never really goes dormant.
4. Euphorbia razafindratsirae, from Arid Lands earlier in February, quite happy under LEDs.

Artist unknown, likely "Age of Nightmares". Note the gloomy color palette, the crowds' calm lack of awareness of nonhuman presence, and the artist's sub-temporal channeling of Earth Prime awareness in certain image elements.

On the one hand I'm a perfectionist about my photography. OTOH the potential for self-defense versus those fractalish flora and fauna.

• August 2023 - it caught a rot on one side of the stem. Discovering this was like, "Oh my, this leaf looks a little loose. What if I pull on it a little ..."
• XActo blade surgery left me with the main piece (left plant) plus a leaf prop with a good chunk of stem (right plant - tip of the backward-facing original leaf is visible at 1 o'clock).