Quaqua mammillaris(L. ) Bruyns
Aroena
Stapelia mammillaris , Boucerosia mammillaris , Caralluma mammillaris , Caralluma winkleri , Caralluma winkleriana , Pectinaria mammillaris , Piaranthus mammillaris
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family unit : ApocynaceaeSubfamily : AsclepiadoideaeTribe : CeropegieaeSubtribe : StapeliinaeGenus : Quaqua
Quaqua mammillarisis a densely branched succulent shrub with green leafless 4- to 5 - tip stems with irregularly arranged tubercle very sharply armed with a hard , yellow - brown spike . It grows to 20 inches ( 50 centimetre ) in height and spread to 2 understructure ( 60 cm ) . The root word are green to purpleness or brown , occasionally green mottled with empurpled - brown . They are up to 20 inch ( 50 atomic number 96 ) long , up to 1.6 in ( 4 centimeter ) in diam , and branch mostly from their base and root only from the central bow . Flowers are morose purple - blackness inside , and this dark color continue just into the oral cavity of the tubing , where it discontinue up to form smirch and rings on a blank ground in the tube . They are up to 1.1 inch ( 2.7 atomic number 96 ) across and produced in large number in many slow , more or less simultaneously opening clusters along grooves of the stems in fall . fruit are paired follicle with reddish marking and resemble antelope horns . They carve up on the side , releasing seeded player with hirsute attachments in malarky dispersal .
USDA hardiness zone9a to 11b : from 20 ° F ( −6.7 ° C ) to 50 ° F ( +10 ° C ) .
Stapeliads are comparatively well-heeled to maturate . They should be treated as an out-of-door plant as they will easily moulder indoors and can not blossom without exposure to out-of-door temperature fluctuation . They should be grown under back so that watering can be controlled . They require a fair amount of sunlight to promote flowering and maintain a well - form plant . Very shady position will produce very hapless unfolding . Stapeliads make out from climates where they survive exceedingly high temperature in the summer months . Hence , most growth is in springtime and decline , with flowering in fall when the weather condition bulge to cool down . In the raise time of year , water system in moderation when needed , get sure land is reasonably dry out out between waterings . Do not water between November 1 and March 1 .
The easiest and estimable style to propagateStapeliads is from theme cutting , which can be taken virtually throughout the twelvemonth . The come is also a method of extension .
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This species is aboriginal toNamibiaandSouth Africa(Cape Province ) .
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