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rbmeps.bsky.social
One of my absolute favorites: Tylecodon singularis. Just one leaf, but will sometimes push a second one out. #succulent #tylecodon
December 7, 2024 at 6:51 PM
bioone.bsky.social
Photo: The petals of Tylecodon kritzingeri in an early stage of anthesis, with the anthers yet to open and release their pollen.

From the Cactus and Succulent Journal in the #OpenAccess paper "A Gallery of Tylecodon Flower Portraits" bio-one.co/4hhPl0i

#SubscribeToOpen #Botany #PlantScience
Cactus and Succulent Journal. A Gallery of Tylecodon flower Portraits. Photo of the petals of Tylecodon kritzingeri highlighting a distinctive color which is unique in the genus, consisting of fine carmine striations on a pale green background. The flower shown is in an early stage of anthesis, with the anthers yet to open and release their pollen.
September 26, 2026 at 4:02 PM
larrish.bsky.social
𝕋𝕪𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕠𝕟 𝕓𝕦𝕔𝕙𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕫𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕦𝕤 is native to South Africa 🇿🇦💚🌱 #plants #plantphotography #photography #iphonephotography #bloomscrolling
June 25, 2026 at 11:10 PM
larrish.bsky.social
This unusual looking plant is a 𝕋𝕪𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕠𝕕𝕠𝕟 𝕓𝕦𝕔𝕙𝕙𝕠𝕝𝕫𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕦𝕤. It’s native to the greater Richtersveld area of South Africa 🇿🇦 and to southern Namibia 🇳🇦. 💚🌱 #plants #plantphotography #photography #iphonephotography #bloomscrolling #succulents
April 3, 2026 at 11:10 PM
80incognito.bsky.social
Some of the plants I found near Kotzesrus, now identified (iNaturalist):
🌱Buddha's Temple (Crassula columnaris)
🌱Crassula hemisphaerica
🌱Crassula subacaulis
🌱Pork Butterbush (Tylecodon buchholzianus)
January 2, 2026 at 1:29 PM
karooplants.bsky.social
Tylecodon reticulatus
(English: Thorny Butterbush;
Afrikaans: Sifkopkandelaar)

redlist.sanbi.org/species.php?...
January 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
lebombone.bsky.social
Tylecodon paniculatus, 13yo
#succulents #caudiciforms
South African shrub, supposedly grows up to over a meter. This one is fairly young, about 18 cm. Never seen it bloom yet.
March 23, 2025 at 8:39 PM
metabotanical.jp
最弱と噂のTylecodon buchholzianus、うちでは普通に強い。徒長せず幹太り＆脇芽も出た。葉なし棒でも微小葉で仕事するらしい。先端赤ポツ＝花芽期待！

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February 15, 2026 at 5:54 AM
cee4ae.bsky.social

そろそろ休眠。
冬型の中でも1番気を遣って扱わなくちゃだめな子(物理的に)

ほんとにすぐ枝が折れる。

3年半でようやくここまで育ってくれた

Tylecodon buchholzianus

#植物趣味 #塊根 #緑のある暮らし
Tylecodon buchholzianus
April 7, 2024 at 5:09 AM
lebombone.bsky.social
Tylecodon tuberosus, terror-inducing bloom
#succulents #bloomscrolling #plants 🪴
Hard to tell with these plants, so far out of their native habitat. They are either blooming because they are content or giving you a final show before they curdle and die. You don't get to find out until autumn whether the post-bloom curdle is death or dormancy.
July 20, 2025 at 9:52 PM
metabotanical.jp
チレコドン・エラフィエアエ 発根管理スタート！🌱（Tylecodon ellaphieae）
根を湿らせベンレート＋ルートン塗布→一晩放置→植え込み。小さいので塊根は露出控えめ、じっくり育成💡
暇つぶしに👇
October 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM
mycoheterotroph.bsky.social
Tylecodon buchholzianus?
August 31, 2025 at 9:00 PM
deleo.bsky.social
Wish me luck with the #tylecodon #buchholzianus, such a rare #succulent. It already lost its beautiful tiny flowers and has started to leaf.
October 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
lebombone.bsky.social
More winter-growing #succulents waking up.
📷🪴
Tylecodon sinus-alexandri x schaeferianus. This was a multi-branched bushy plant when I got it from C&D Plants and then it was nearly killed by an unexpected frost. One stem survived, at least. Tylecodon wallichii. This is an old one, maybe about 8 yo. The new growth is less than 1 cm at this point but they grow to be 6 to 10 cm long. Tylecodon tuberosus. The plant is about 4 cm tall, very knobby. Monilaria moniliformis. This one woke up very early, probably because of an unusually long period of high humidity just as temperatures were coming down.
October 1, 2024 at 8:35 PM
lebombone.bsky.social
Tylecodon sinus-alexandri x schaeferianus, it wakes up in autumn. 🌱#succulents 📷
Tylecodon sinus-alexandri x schaeferianus, young leaves are red. After a few weeks, they mature into green, largely featureless succulent blobs. The largest leaf in this pic is about 3mm long.
October 21, 2023 at 2:26 PM
lebombone.bsky.social
Tylecodon singularis, 3 yo, seed-grown.
Tylecodon singularis, 3 yo, seed-grown.
September 21, 2023 at 2:34 PM
lebombone.bsky.social
Tylecodon singularis, from seeds; repotted for the first time. 5yo.
#succulents
Photo shows a single fleshy, veiny, hairy, almost circular leaf, 6-cm across. Repotted for the first time this winter, it was one of 2 surviving plants from 20 seeds sown in 2020. From the same batch of seeds, the second surviving plant. This one sprouted 2 leaves, one is about .5 cm in diameter, the other hs about 2 cm across. It could be two plants but the fat roots were so entangled, it looked dangerous to separate.
January 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
caudexista.bsky.social
✨ Tylecodon singularis: La joya solitaria de los caudex ✨
es una suculenta fascinante, conocida por su única hoja redonda y carnosa. Originaria de las montañas Huns en Namibia, esta planta crece en grietas de rocas quieres saber mas visita el blog caudexista.blogspot.com #caudex #suculentas
El Tylecodon singularis es una planta suculenta increíblemente rara y fascinante. Originaria de las montañas Huns en Namibia, crece en grietas de rocas de piedra caliza, aprovechando la humedad de la niebla marina. Esta planta destaca por su particularidad: desarrolla una única hoja carnosa y redonda durante su período de crecimiento.
December 9, 2024 at 3:01 PM
nigatsunowamei.bsky.social
ほうれ、花が咲いたどぉー
と見せてくれるTylecodonさん

夏はお水あげないで
9月から少しずつね
って言われて
7月から水やり控えてたら
枝？の先のモチモチ葉っぱ？が萎れ枯れ（聞いてた）
なんか伸びて来たと思ったら花が咲いた（聞いてない）

奇天烈多肉w
この先どうなるかなー
August 9, 2024 at 7:40 AM
lebombone.bsky.social
My POS (Plant of Shame)
Tylecodon reticulatus
#succulents #caudiciforms #tylecodon #plantofshame
Photo of a mature plant, approximately 15 cm tall. Purchased as a rooted cutting in 2016, already with a dense reticulate crown leftover from previous inflorescence. The plant was oozing pink goo when it arrived and had to be rehabilitated for 20 months before going back into the pot for another attempt at rooting. That process took another two years. The crown had to be trimmed off because you can't walk near the thing without it snaging on something. I keep it in a heavy pot to force me to be careful when I move it. It is growing in full sun, inside a wire cage built to protect it from squirrels and birds. T. reticulatus is classified as "Least Concern" but its population in habitat is declining due to aggressive collection. When I bought it in 2016, I only checked its conversvation status and assumed it was grown from seeds (the seller had a solid reputation and had been in business for decades--definitely enough time and experience to have grown such plants from seeds). Although it was diseased on arrival, it had the magnificent weathered look only found in habitat-collected plants, especially caudiciforms. I may be wrong, but I don't think I am. So, well. Shit. I have since gone into several rabbitholes, learned some depressing shit and hardened on what plants I will and will not buy. Still, I own a habitat-collected plant. I am embarrassed that I have it, but here we are. Oh, and it is blooming for the first time. At least I didn't fucking kill it.
May 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
lebombone.bsky.social
Tylecodon buchholzianus, before kitten and after kitten
#succulents 🪴 📷
#macro
#photography 📷
The surface of the branches photosynthesize and the plant does not typically need to grow actual leaves unless grown in some shade. Those branches are delicate and snap off easily. Fortunately, they are also easy to root. Keep away from kittens. Then kitten decides the plant doesn't need to be that vertical. One swipe, the tall stem flies across the room. That test 3d print is holding up that branch while, hopefully, it tries to root. Ends look a bit sandwormy.
January 28, 2024 at 2:40 PM
lebombone.bsky.social
Winter, yay! We are waking up!
#succulents 📷🪴
The eponymous Tylecodon singularis, first leaves.
T. singularis isn't supposed to have more than one leaf. This plant (4 yo, grown from seeds), has just been repotted from it's sow-pot. It could be thriving, it could be dying--a flush of growth sometimes happens as a result of trauma, in this case being repotted. To be furthered.
October 1, 2024 at 1:20 PM
lebombone.bsky.social
Thank you! I'm glad I can continue to mostly ignore this one.
As an aside, I experiment with pots as well and mostly stay away from glazed ones--no patience to learn it. Maybe for taro.
I've tried pumice pots, too; but they took up so much winter space I had to ditch them until I depopulated a bit.
These will be good for tylecodon yearlings since they need to be grown hard to stay compact.
March 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
lebombone.bsky.social
#succulents🌱📷
#plants
#spring
#fakespring
Tylecodon ventricosus..the clump looks like a miniature palm grove. Falls apart if you nudge it. Fortunately, branches torn off by tail, elbow or sneeze can be rooted easily. These aren't even the original plant. Othonna euphorbiodes. The spikes are seriously stabby. Winter-grower, it will shed the leaves and go dormant soon and maybe bloom again for the road. Euphorbia esculenta inhermis. It's probably etiolated. Meh. Semps getting their spring colours. These are monocarpic--the rosette dies after it blooms, creating room for new chicks.
March 24, 2024 at 6:07 PM
lebombone.bsky.social
More winter growing #succulents #caudiciforms or #plantwantsyoutoGTFO
"growing hard": Feed once a year or even don't; keep in soil-free, airy substrate; when you think it needs water, it usually doesn't.
Tylecodon tuberosus. Picture shows a squat plant with dark green, elliptical, blunt-tipped leaves covered in white hairs. It blooms readily and seeds are easy to germinate but getting them to survive the first three years is not for the ill-tempered. Growing in a 4-cm pot. But is this really T. tuberosus? No clue. It is poorly documented in the wild and probably gone by now. Someone out there knows more. Tylecodon longipes. Plant with hairy leaves typical of tylecodons. To prevent etiolation, this plant must be grown HARD. The entire plant shrivels in summer. Never managed to get seeds from this one. Othonna herrei. Small young plant with a globular trunk about 2 cm in diameter. The leaves are dark bluish-green. It has a tendency to deform when overwatered so it has to be grown VERY HARD. Aloinopsis malherbei. Throwing this in because the number of flower buds was shocking. About seven so far.
January 6, 2025 at 7:04 PM