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Conophytum Photo Gallery Section - 1 2a 2b 3a 3b 3c 3d 4a 4b 4c 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 |
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Conophytum are also a personal favourite as they now provide an increasing number of glorious flowers and perfume. Nowadays we grow them in the 12 foot by 8 foot, west-facing, Robinson Roma, glass and aluminium conservatory. This has a twin-wall, polycarbonate roof and heating by one 3Kw Parwin fan-heater. Some shading is provided by the pergola on the southern side. Despite having grown Conophytum for twenty years or so, until recent years and the Mesemb Study Group, I had only sporadic success and few flowers. Then I dared to give more water and things definitely improved. Admittedly there was the occasional split head, but Conos can cope with that providing we give them time to recover; just don't persist in over-zealousness with the watering can. These latter years I've also taken the opportunity to sow plenty of seed resulting in both the size of the Conophytum Collection and its quality increasing considerably. |
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| Propagation | Click to see what you can achieve with just a little Cono dust and patience. | |
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| Conophytum Photo Galleries | Click this hyperlink to go to go to the start of our specimen Conophytum Photo Galleries. We aim to add more photographs to the galleries throughout the course of the growing years. | |
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Taxonomy is a
filing system, produced by scientists, in order to enable us to communicate our thoughts and ideas to one another concerning
relationships between various plants and groups.
It is mostly very helpful to us but cannot be wholly accurate when discussing nature as it evolves and develops. |
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Touch of Taxonomy - Part 1a, 1b, 2a & 2b |
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The following taxonomy pages are based upon the Conophytum books by Steven Hammer and are intended for my own education and reference during the building of the Cono pages. Hopefully, they may be of assistance to you too. |
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THE GENUS CONOPHYTUM A Conograph |
For fuller details please refer to the book itself. | |
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And, for further delight and delectation, please view: |
Dumpling and His Wife: New Views of the Genus CONOPHYTUM |
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| All photographs are copyright. | ||
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Conophytum Photo Gallery Section - 1 2a 2b 3a 3b 3c 3d 4a 4b 4c 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 |
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