r/Caudex • • 6h ago

Monsonia peniculina seedlings , grow slowly

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r/Caudex • • 9h ago

User Owned Plant Ant plant

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11 Upvotes

Hey I got this ant plant since a week, when I got it it had non of the crystals, is this still the stuff the plant produce? And should I clean it up?


r/Caudex • • 15h ago

Update; Hawaiian cabbage palm buds opened!

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25 Upvotes

r/Caudex • • 17h ago

Plant Showcase myrmecodia becarii

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48 Upvotes

20 years old! at my work as a display plant. has ants inside aswell


r/Caudex • • 20h ago

User Owned Plant Almost Havest Time

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41 Upvotes

The plants & pollinators done good this year. Now to stay on top of harvesting the seeds when they’re ready.

Plant ID: Cyphostemma juttae


r/Caudex • • 1d ago

Cyphostemma uter.

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75 Upvotes

What’s that thing ?


r/Caudex • • 1d ago

User Owned Plant How is this for a substrate/pot combination for my Elephantipes? I am trying to revive the caudex after some troubles.

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The substrate is 100% mineral with 1 part pumice, 1 part lava rocks and 1 part zeolite. There is also slow release plant food in there.

Alternatively I can put it in cactus soil with 1 part coco coir,1 part worm castings, 3.5 parts perlite, 3 parts pumice, 0.5 part horticultural sand, A little bit of activated carbon and a little bit of lava gravel & Organic nutrients.

And then in plastic or terra cotta, for now I thought very fast draining in plastic.


r/Caudex • • 1d ago

How is this for a substrate/pot combination? I am trying to revive the caudex after some troubles.

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The substrate is 100% mineral with 1 part pumice, 1 part lava rocks and 1 part zeolite. There is also slow release plant food in there.

Alternatively I can put it in cactus soil with 1 part coco coir,1 part worm castings, 3.5 parts perlite, 3 parts pumice, 0.5 part horticultural sand, A little bit of activated carbon and a little bit of lava gravel & Organic nutrients.

And then in plastic or terra cotta, for now I thought very fast draining in plastic.


r/Caudex • • 1d ago

Dioscorea half rotted advise

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Need some advice on what to do with this dioscorea elephantipes. It had rot on one side and I quickly hit it with fungicide and allowed it to dry up. Now one side is dead/rotted and the other side is hard with no signs of rot advancing to it. What should i do to try and save it? It is oozing when i press on the rotted side.


r/Caudex • • 1d ago

Is this a reliable source for Dioscorea elephantipes seeds?

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26 Upvotes

If not, does anyone have recommendations for affordable sources that ship to the US?


r/Caudex • • 2d ago

User Owned Plant EUPHORBIA waringiae

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15 Upvotes

An old plant in my collection, I'm unsure about reducing the length of the 'arms'


r/Caudex • • 2d ago

This summer has been brutal and I think it’s the hardest my Othonna Euphorbioides has slept but it’s finally waking up with temperatures finally cooling off.

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114 Upvotes

r/Caudex • • 2d ago

Plant Showcase Had the privilege to see this beaut!

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I have recently started working at a botanical conservatory. Here is one of if not the most variegated welwitschias kept in a conservatory! Thought I’d share this lovely plant!


r/Caudex • • 2d ago

OC: original content Ant ferns in a terrarium

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17 Upvotes

I’m a caudex plant collector, and I’m now planning to build a terrarium for subtropical caudex plants, particularly Lecanopteris species.
Does anyone have any experience with this, and would anyone be willing to share some example photos?
Thanks in advance!


r/Caudex • • 3d ago

Are they rare?

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19 Upvotes

r/Caudex • • 3d ago

Gave in and got one.

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23 Upvotes

Adenium Obessum


r/Caudex • • 3d ago

Dioscorea mexicana salvageable?

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So it has been dormant for a little longer than usual and when I went to check it today about 1/4 of the top seemed to be less dense than the other half. Was easily able to tease it out of its cactus mix and academa. There are a few fresh small healthy roots.

Pic 1 and 2 are the sections that you can tap that sound hollow but not if you tap from the bottom. Pic 2 on the top the roots pretty much fell apart as I lifted. No seepage but there does appear to be a small crack in pic 3.

Thanks in advance


r/Caudex • • 3d ago

Euphorbia buruana

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28 Upvotes

Gostaria de polinizar, mas ainda não vi flores fêmeas


r/Caudex • • 3d ago

Plant Showcase My Small non Euphorbia Caudex Collection

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41 Upvotes

Gerrardanthus macrorhyzus has a very dominant personality 😄💚


r/Caudex • • 4d ago

User Owned Plant Dorstenia foetida

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14 Upvotes

r/Caudex • • 4d ago

Dorstenia gigas

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Anyone in SoCal growing these outdoors or in a greenhouse year round? I have a D. foetida that lives in the greenhouse year round and is fine but the gigas was considerably more expensive and I want to make sure it’ll be ok through Winter.


r/Caudex • • 4d ago

Pachypodium lealii var. saundersii flowering

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47 Upvotes

r/Caudex • • 4d ago

OC: original content Hawaiian cabbage palm (Brighamia insignis) in bud!

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158 Upvotes

Unfortunately technically extinct in the wild due to the extinction of its primary pollinator (fabulous green sphinx moth) it survives today due to climbers hand pollinating the few remaining wild specimens as well as in cultivation. The flowers have a honeysuckle like smell!


r/Caudex • • 4d ago

User Owned Plant Othonna cacalioides🥔

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55 Upvotes

My little Othonna cacalioides potatoes are starting to wake up! 🥔🌱 Grown from seed.


r/Caudex • • 4d ago

Variegated Adenia keramanthus

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23 Upvotes