It was very hot, very crowded and yet still worth it - finally got not just one, but both known species of Aztekium without going bankrupt - I wanted one for a long while, but they tend to be stupid expensive in Japan.
Love the two cute jellybeans too - Conophytum burgeri. Hell, love all of them, that’s why I bought too many yet again :)
Here are a few closeup shots:
The Conophytums are surreal
They really don’t look like actual plants even up close - more like glass or plastic beads. I hope they grow nice - there were bigger specimens available for ridiculous prices too, but decided to get these two tiny ones and try to grow them myself.
They remind me of cuberdons
Exactly 😮 just impressive
What is the one in the back to the left called?? It looks amazingly alien! I love it!
That’s actually a type of Echeveria called Culibra - looks like a bunch of alien trumpets, doesn’t it?
It really does! Like something I’d see on Pandora or in no man’s sky. Almost looks like it wants to be carnivorous!
Cacti and succulents are my favorite, so many just absolutely strange looking plants.
Valdezii seems to be a synonym of ritteri, and hintonii is the second one, so unless Wikipedia is wrong (which is of course possible), I got’em both (the one in the back is hintonii, the label is covered from this angle): https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztekium
Thank you for clearing this up. I thought the ritteri is the one with lots of wrinkles. I loved the valdezii for its beauty and the ritteri for its ugliness lol. But perhaps this characteristic is very variable within the species.
