http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/ Stapeliads and other asclepiads list Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:44:34 GMT Friederike Hübner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9800 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9800 Dear John and dear friends, I was lucky to reach Ernst between two travel tours. I think he can bringt light in our confusion. We three - Uli Tränkle, John Tue, 17 Nov 2009 11:43:15 GMT Carol Griesser http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9799 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9799 Dear Friederke I am glad you saw the photos, they are all plants from your seeds! I am also glad you prefer to keep the previous names; I had them with those Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:35:02 GMT Rosemarie http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9798 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9798 Nice plants & blooms, Carol! Great to see them next to each other. :) Rosemarie ... From: Carol Griesser To: Stapeliad@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, November Mon, 16 Nov 2009 10:18:40 GMT johnfrew9@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9797 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9797 Dear Friederike and Fanda I think this may be a hybrid of R. splendidum and macrolobum, Ernst had seed of what was supposed to be true splendidum but when the Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:12:12 GMT Friederike Hübner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9796 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9796 Dear Fanda, the source for the plants is Exotica (Ernst Specks) a nursery in Germany. Nurseries are as good as there seed sources are. I could ask Ernst about Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:56:34 GMT Friederike Hübner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9795 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9795 Dear Carol, nice to see your seedlings in bloom! You are right - Bruyns changed the name definitly - but I would prefer to keep also H. campanulata with using Mon, 16 Nov 2009 07:14:48 GMT Greg & Jackie http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9794 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9794 Very nice Carol! Jackie Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:15:55 GMT David Rowe http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9793 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9793 hidy carol, beautiful blooms....red..yellow big bloom!   i have stapeliads(h) in 4 or 5 plants...no blooms...hhuumm.   next year's! Susan Rowe  :-) ... Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:49:06 GMT Carol Griesser http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9792 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9792 We are having temperatures of over 30 degrees Celsius and after the cold, wet winter we had, my Stapeliad are rejoicing! I was lucky to be able to photograph Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:23:06 GMT Rosemarie http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9791 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9791 Friederike, Thank you so much for your observations on my plant and its identity. I will take a look into those characteristics & see what I can find. Silly Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:15:50 GMT Friederike Hübner http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9790 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9790 Dear Rosemarie, thank you for the nice pictures you sent - they are informative und not to large. But unfortunately this is not Huernia erectiloba. The corolla Sat, 14 Nov 2009 09:28:26 GMT Jim Irwin http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9789 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9789 thanks it always good to know the facts before protesting ... From: Stapeliad@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Stapeliad@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Morten Ernstrand Sat, 14 Nov 2009 04:58:53 GMT Helen Morgan http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9788 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9788 thank you for that info morten..i appreciate it.. Helen To: Stapeliad@yahoogroups.com From: mel@... Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:58:32 +0100 Subject: Re: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:02:58 GMT Morten Ernstrand Larsen http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9787 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9787 Dear Sirs, As a Danish citizen I Do feel the need to reply to the pictures placed here... even though it doesn't concern Staps. Denmark DOES NOT approve of Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:47:58 GMT Rosemarie http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9786 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Stapeliad/message/9786 Hello all on the list! Can't say for sure if I've ever posted a pic of one of my plants, but figured now would be a good time...so we can get back to some