Pleiospilos nelii 'Royal Flush' -자제옥

Pleiospilos nelii 'Royal Flush'

-자제옥

자제옥이라는 국명으로는 국표에 없다.학명으로도 없다.

국표에 Pleiospilos (플레이오스필로스속)으로는 Pleiospilos nelii Schwantes 이것 한 종밖에 없다. 

Origin and Habitat: Garden origin (Nursery produced cultivar)

Description: Pleisopilos nelii cv. Royal Flush is a mesemb cultivars sought after by collectors for its unique purple colouring. More over 'Royal Flush' has a deep rose flower with a white contrasting centre while the flower of the true Pleisopilos nelii are golden-apricot.

Habit: It is a stemless, perennial, nearly spherical, leaf succulent vaguely reminding for a Lithops and looking like a cracked rock. Mostly there will just be one head, but very old plants will form two and eventually more heads.

Body: The body of the plant consists of 2 or 4 globe shaped leaves, fused at the base that naturally sit above the surface of the soil and can grow to about a height of 5–8 cm and about 10 cm across. The leaves have a deep fissure in the middle and are usually rose to purple in colour with many conspicuous raised dark dots scattered over the whole surface. The plant produces a new pair of leaves from within the old one each year, much the same as Lithops and Conophytum do.

Flowers: Large daisy-like, deep rose flower with a white contrasting centre, fragrant whit a distinct smell of coconut. Considering the size of the plant they are extremely large (up to 6-7,5 cm across), and have a great many petals. They are solitary or in clusters borne on short pedicels.

Blooming season: Usually flowers in early spring after the winter dormancy period, although some plants can flower in autumn like a Lithops, depending on how they are grown. The blooms open in mid-afternoon and close just after sunset.

Remarks: Sometimes Pleiospilos will even be labelled as a Lithops, but it isn't the same. There are three immediate visual differences: P. nelii does not grow buried to its neck in the ground; it is bigger than any Lithops and will produce multiple flowers at once, something that Lithops never do.

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