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  • A huernia "hell's bells" hybrid with multi-colored spiky stems. Older stems are mottled with a deep brown-maroon color, and newer stems are a light minty green color.
  • Detail of the Hell's Bells flower, a maroon round bell-like flower a cream-colored hexagonal center. There are five larger spikes of petals with smaller spikes between them.
  • Side-view of the Hell's Bells flower, a slightly hexagonal bell-shape with pointed ends curling out.
  • Detail of Hell's Bells stems and an unopened bud, a bell like flower with the center spiked out and five smaller spikes around the edge.
  • A young Hell's Bells plant with three stems and a flower
  • Detail of a young Hell's Bell's plant flowering, with creamy maroon-colored bloom.
  • Detail of severe sun-stress on the huernia stems, a dark maroon brown mottling on light green.
  • A young hell's bells plant with an unopened bloom.
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Huernia guttata x urceolata "Hell's Bells"

Huernia guttata x urceolata "Hell's Bells"

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Type

Family Apocynaceae

Subfamily Asclepiadoideae

Tribe Ceropegieae

Genus Huernia

Species guttata x urceolata

Common name(s) Hell's Bells

 

Hell's Bells is a robust huernia hybrid with large stems ridged with soft green spikes, appearing cactus-like. This huernia takes on beautiful stress coloration when exposed to sunlight: maroon splotches form on the green stems and can turn deep brown in winter sun. Stems will remain green if kept in bright indirect light. Cuttings root readily!

The plant flowers consistently once mature, forming small bell-shaped flowers at the base. It can be hard to maneuver your nose down in there to get a whiff, but Hell's Bells definitely gives off a putrid fishy scent. The flowers on Hell's Bells hybrids can vary in color, but this genetic line has a desaturated maroon color with a light cream center.

Options: The "parent" plant you will receive a cutting from is pictured. Options are a rooted cutting measuring at least two inches, or a rooted multi-stem cutting with at least three stems.

Growth habit Columnar, new growth from base
Size Stems are typically 3–4" but up to 5–6" tall
Light Filtered sun, under a tree or shade cloth
Water Occasional water in growing season, allow to dry between waterings; leave dry over winter
Overwintering Tolerates 50°F, does best overwintering in a greenhouse
Flowers Blooms in the spring through fall, with heaviest bloom in late summer
Scent profile Unfresh sushi
Native to Cultivar (South Africa)
Conservation risk status n/a
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