Monday, June 25, 2012

Prepodesma is growing

The Prepodesma orpenii has finally managed the two stages of settling in. The leaves are firm and wrinkle-less, showing some fresh green at the base, and there are new leaves coming beside one of the flowers (the plant ten days ago). Also I was suspiciously eyeing the dots on the leaves but they only seem to be on the parts visible back when I bought it and probably come from spraying with chemicals and such. They should go away with the old leaves.
The flowers stayed for a while but almost never opened again. Yesterday the half-closed flowers were the most beautiful, looking like flames (make sure to view the pic in full size). They've dried only a couple of hours after the photo was taken.

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  1. Lovely plant and flowers, and glad to know that it has made a safe and happy transition into its new home. The shades of colours and patterns/spots are very nice also! :-)

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  2. Lovely plant and flowers, and glad to know that it has made a safe and happy transition into its new home. The shades of colours and patterns/spots are very nice too! :-)

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    1. Thanks! I'm glad it likes it here, too :)
      The transition is always a critical time.

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  3. beautiful, i wonder how long it takes before it reached that size to flower

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    1. I honestly don't know, maybe two years? I've been struggling to find information on Prepodesma online..

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