Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Cacti and Succulents => Topic started by: FrazerHenderson on May 08, 2021, 12:46:49 PM
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Spending a dreich day clearing out files from the computer and came across these photographs from previous trips to Socotra (island to east of Somalia and south of Yemen)
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Adenium obesum subsp. socotranum - habitat
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Adenium obesum subsp. socotranum
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Adenium obesum subsp. socotranum
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Five more
Aloe jawiyon (poss.)
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Aloe perryi - habitat
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Aloe perryi Socotra
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Caralluma socotrana - flowers
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Caralluma socotrana
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and another five including an arboreal Cucumber.
Carulluma socotrana - detail
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Cissus hamaderohensis
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Cissus subaphylla
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Dendrosicyos socotrana
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Dendrosicyus socotrana (Cucurbitaceae)
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and yet another five
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Dorstenia gigas - karst
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Dorstenia gigas and Dracaena cinnabari
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Dracaena cinnabari - in flower
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Dracaena cinnabari
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Dracaena cinnabari - woodland
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and a final four
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Euphorbia arbuscula
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Euphorbia spiralis
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Euphorbia spiralis with Kalanchoe farinacea - Homhil Socotra
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Exacum caeruleum (endemic)
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Great to see more of the extraordinary flora of Socotra - thanks, Frazer!
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Attached is a link attached to a short illustrated article that I wrote for Cactus and Succulent Review (June 2022) about Socotra's flora - https://www.cactusandsucculentreview.org.uk/assets/downloads/2022/csr-june-2022.pdf (https://www.cactusandsucculentreview.org.uk/assets/downloads/2022/csr-june-2022.pdf)
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Very many thanks Frazer.
Some fabulous pic's of some fabulous plants.
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Fascinating article, Frazer - many thanks for sharing. I also enjoyed the piece on Tillandsia - I used to grow a lot of these!
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Here's an article (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/12/saving-dragons-blood-island-refused-let-tree-die-out-socotra-yemen) on conservation of the Socotran dragon tree, Dracaena cinnabari.