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  • Close view of a Stapelia flavopurpurea flower, star-shaped with bright lime green petals with raised ridges on them. The center has a white ring with fine red-pink hairs with dew at the end. In the center is a star-shaped formation of white, golden yellow, and hot pink.
  • A flavopurpurea flower among long slender green stems, with some stress color splotching.
  • Several flowers on a flavopurpurea plant. It has stubby snaking stems.
  • Detail of a flower with a bud opening behind it. The center of the flower has stringy pink-white protrusions.
  • Cold-weather flower color variant, a red-orange tint that fades to yellow at the tips
  • Detail of a six-pointed flavopurpurea flower with red-tinted petals
  • A stapelia flavopurpurea plant in a bowl in bloom, with several flowers, balloon-like buds, and opening buds.
  • A flavopurpurea bud beginning to open, a balloon-like bud split open along one side.
  • Detail of the center of the flower, with the small hot pink hairs glistening with a dew drop on the end like a sundew.
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Stapelia flavopurpurea

Stapelia flavopurpurea

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Family Apocynaceae

Subfamily Asclepiadoideae

Tribe Ceropegieae

Genus Stapelia

Species flavopurpurea

 

Stapelia flavopurpurea has an incredible flower, a bright lime green star with a dewy pink center. The species can produce a range of tones from deeper lime green to red-pink petal colors, even with different colors on the same plant. This plant to date has only produced the light yellow-lime petal color shown in images, with instances of a red-tinged flower occurring in colder weather.

This stapelia produces a lot of flowers in its peak season. I counted over seventy buds on the plant at one point; several will bloom at once and fade over a few days, taking turns like a fireworks show. This stapelia is known for being a rare pleasant-smelling stapeliad. It has a lovely scent like honey with a sharp note to it, like spices or tamarind.

Flavopurpurea is lucky the flowers are nice because it doesn't have the most attractive growth form the rest of the time. It has long green splotchy stems with awkward growth forms. It can be a bit of a slow grower, putting on stubby stems in fits and spurts. Stem ends can easily snap off, leaving a scarred stump. Just give it time, it'll look better when it's a bit more filled in!

Options: The "parent" plant you will receive a cutting from is pictured. Options are a cutting measuring at least two inches, rooted or unrooted.

 

Growth habit Crawling, forms long slender stems that trail or hang, and branch all along the length
Size Stems approximately a centimeter across, easily reach a few inches but given time can reach approx 8 inches or longer
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
Flowers Heavy blooms in the spring to early summer and again in the fall
Scent profile Honeycomb with a bit of a kick like tamarind
Native to South Africa, Namibia, Botswana
Conservation risk status Least Concern (LC)
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