Zedo Posted March 22, 2017 (edited) So I took a cutting from home years ago, and now I'm getting a bud.... a huge bud. Can't wait to see the outcome. I found it's a 'stapelia' but I'm not sure what type. Anyways thought I'd share its progress. It just keeps getting bigger. I'd love to let it spread but it's also called a carrion flower. So I might stink. Edited March 22, 2017 by Zedo 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godless Posted March 22, 2017 can be used as grafting stock, ive only seen a couple of peeps use it but it works, may not have the longevity of trich or peres though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zedo Posted March 22, 2017 Interesting to know. I haven't tried grafting yet, but when I do it'll be worth a shot. I'm just amazed how big the bud is. It's like 100mm long. I read some species can get flowers up to 400mm in diameter. I would imagine when this opens it'll be around 150-200mm diameter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DualWieldRake Posted March 22, 2017 haha 100mm! you are beeing quite exact about these measurements :D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zedo Posted March 22, 2017 I'm a tradie. Can't help but to measure lol 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zed240 Posted March 22, 2017 can be used as grafting stock, ive only seen a couple of peeps use it but it works, may not have the longevity of trich or peres though. This isn't a cactus so grafting cactuses to it won't work, but you can graft other things from the same family to it, like Hoodia or other stapeliads. And these have really cool flowers @Zedo, yours is probably stapelia grandiflora or stapelia gigantea. I'd guess gigantea but when the flower opens it should help you more. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godless Posted March 22, 2017 ive seen trichs grafted to stapelia, they were leaning over with the weight of the scion but grafted none the less Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zed240 Posted March 22, 2017 You sure it wasn't a selenicereus sp. or some other cactus that has similar looking limbs that they had used as graft stock rather than a stapeliad? As far as I'm aware it's impossible to graft a cactus onto a plant from a completely different family and have it work. And stapeliads aren't very closely related to cactus. Otherwise pics of this crazy oddity you speak of would be very cool to see. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godless Posted March 22, 2017 when it comes to cacti the rules can always be bent and in most cases broken, definite stapelia, had a big conversation about it, 5 years ago at least, person not on this site, lost contact. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godless Posted March 22, 2017 I have this bad habit of not entering people into my phone, thinking ill just remember that number, but no. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zedo Posted March 22, 2017 (edited) My research said it was a cacti. I understand all cacti are succulents but not in reverse. Though I'd be interested in other opinions. Scrap that. Yeah looking now I must have misread something. Just a succ. Funny though cause I used a cacti identification guide to work out what it was. Edited March 22, 2017 by Zedo Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zedo Posted March 22, 2017 So fat now. Such rain. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ex-Cess'es Posted March 22, 2017 Wow zedo what a huge flower bud , nice 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
godless Posted March 22, 2017 flower is ACE, im looking forward to seeing it bloom 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zedo Posted March 23, 2017 Opened today. Seriously huge. 160mm from centre to tip. So 320mm diameter. So cool. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zelly Posted March 25, 2017 like Zed said, stapelia gigantea nastiest, stinkiest flower imaginable........ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zedo Posted March 25, 2017 Yeh defiantly stapelia gigantea. Thanks. I gave it a snif when I got home that arvo and took the picture as I was interested to see how bad it smelt. It had a fly and a few ants on it. But I couldn't smell anything. Probably a good thing lol. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gr33ntea Posted May 11, 2017 Sorry to reignite this thread from two months ago, but are you guys trying to tell me that you can graft a cactus onto a stapelia gigantea ?? This would have to mean that Stapelia is in the cactus family? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Berengar Posted May 11, 2017 4 hours ago, gr33ntea said: Sorry to reignite this thread from two months ago, but are you guys trying to tell me that you can graft a cactus onto a stapelia gigantea ?? This would have to mean that Stapelia is in the cactus family? It most definitely is not. Not even in the same order of plants. It would however mean that cacti are much more adaptable than we thought. I've never tried grafting a cactus to stapelia or vice versa, but I have seen a picture of a Lophophora grafted to one of those leafy grayish succulents, I forget it's name, and growing very successfully. I regret not saving that picture. But if it can grow on that, than it's entirely possible it can grow on stapelia as well. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
