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Caralluma moniliformis
This is one of the Somalian carallumas that Ernest Specks had stocked in his 2008 catalogue. I was pleasantly surprised that it flowered earlier in February during the dry and windy weather. Most of my carallumas (C. retrospeciens) give a terminal ball of flowers, and i was expecting the same for this species. It gives a long thin stick of spaced terminal inflorescence similar to a well known Indian species C. stalagmifera. The flowers are really very small, perhaps 1 cm across and extremely delicate. Any insects that can work on its pollination is probably an order of magnitude smaller! For size, i have a stray kalanchoe longiflora (right) for comparison below:
This is one of the Somalian carallumas that Ernest Specks had stocked in his 2008 catalogue. I was pleasantly surprised that it flowered earlier in February during the dry and windy weather. Most of my carallumas (C. retrospeciens) give a terminal ball of flowers, and i was expecting the same for this species. It gives a long thin stick of spaced terminal inflorescence similar to a well known Indian species C. stalagmifera. The flowers are really very small, perhaps 1 cm across and extremely delicate. Any insects that can work on its pollination is probably an order of magnitude smaller! For size, i have a stray kalanchoe longiflora (right) for comparison below:
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