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  • Detail of a Stapelia divaricata flower, a star-like shape in a fleshy light yellow pink color with a yellow center and fine hairs.
  • A divaricata plant, with narrow upright stems with ridges up four sides.
  • A young divaricata plant with three stems, blooming and with an unopened bud.
  • Detail of the divaricata before flowering, an inflated flat wide hexagonal bud.
  • Two mature divaricata plants with snaking thin stems, with pale stress coloration tinting the stems slightly brown and the tips purple
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Stapelia divaricata x

Stapelia divaricata x

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Family Apocynaceae

Subfamily Asclepiadoideae

Tribe Ceropegieae

Genus Stapelia

Species divaricata x

 

Stapelia divaricata is a compact succulent with neat upright stems. It does well in smaller pots (up to 6") and is a fast grower once established. The green stems can tint purple on the ends with sun stress, and the color deepens over the winter.

This is a hybrid of divaricata and another stapeliad, unknown. The hybrid has the fleshiest of flowers, a leathery surface of yellowish-beige color with a light pink blush, covered with fine wrinkles and hairs. It's not a super heavy bloomer, but flowers last a lot longer than other varieties, staying open for a week or longer. Relative to its size, divaricata x is fairly pungent. It's not noticeable from a distance but impossible to miss if you stick your nose in it.

Options: The "parent" plant you will receive a cutting from is pictured. Options are an unrooted cutting or a rooted cutting (shipped bare root).

Growth habit Upright narrow stems, columnar structure adding stems from the base.
Size Stems reach 3-5" 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 40°F, does best overwintering in a greenhouse. Stems may shrivel and turn off-green over winter.
Flowers Blooms in the fall
Scent profile Cat poo
Native to Cultivar (South Africa)
Conservation risk status n/a (proper divaricata listed as Vulnerable (VU))
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