Aizoaceae Family

 Pleiospilos nelii

  This plant is also original of South Africa, Province of the Cape. Very similar when young to the Pleiospilus bolusii, but P. nelii will be taking a form cleared and hemispheric with the age.

It consists of a pair of leaves that are renewed year after year over the old ones which then decay and dried. 

 The flowers are born from the center of the new pair of leaves and they can develop several ones between September-November. 

 Flowers of 5 cm, yellows, returning to the orange and rose, with petals wider than in the sister species P. bolusii.

 Its time of growth is between June-November when always controlled irrigations can be given. 

 Full sun or semi shade. Without fertilizing. It is advisable that it loses the old leaves even if we must induce its rest by dryness. It can resist cold in winter if the plant is in dry. It needs a substratum with good drainage. Flooding and excesses of humidity in the substratum cause very dangerous basal rot.

 The best is to try to maintain the plant winth only a pair of leaves to ensure that rotting in the old leaves do not take place. Although this plant is completely healthy, it has three pairs of leaves which puts in danger its survival in the mid term. It would be necessary to cut the irrigation so that the liquid of the old leaves could be transferred  to the new ones.