Tavaresia


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Habit   cacti-succulent

Lifespan: perennial
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Read about Tavaresia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Tavaresia (derivation unexplained). Asclepiadaceae. Succulent stapelia-like perennials, branching at the base: sts. 6-12-angled, angles tuberculate, toothed, each tubercle with 3 bristles: fls. large and showy, in sessile cymes at base of young sts.; calyx 5-parted; corolla large, tubular-funnel-shaped, 5-lobed; crown double, outer shortly tubular at base, then divided into 10 long filiform segms., each terminated by a knob, inner crown of 5 narrow lobes; staminal column arising from base of corolla. Two species, Trop. and S. Afr. T. Barklyi, N. E. Br. Glabrous: sts. 3-4 in. high, thick, fleshy, cylindrical, 10-12-angled, tubercles white-bristled: cymes sessile, few-fld.: corolla smooth, pale greenish or greenish white spotted with purple-red outside, inside papillate, pale yellowish, covered with small purple-red spots, base entirely purple-red; knobs of the filiform outer crown-segms. globular. Trop. and S. Afr. CH


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