ID on Succulent please ...

Not one I've seen before,( thats not saying much), is it a cutivated plant or does it grow wild around there.

 

Cultivated. My garden centre friend gave it to me whittering I thought "a Senecio" but I think I heard wrong. He's off in Morocco now till after the New Year, so may have to wait till then.

 

Looks vaguely like a kniphofia...... but don't really know, LoL, as you can tell :D

Love your new avatar and those cat's eyse!!

 

Hi, Dendro. No it's not a Kniphofia as I have three of those. It's much smaller as well.

Thanks, thought I'd be festive for the New Year. For years I have had an A4 glossy picture of the cat's eyes (not moving, of course). I used to have it on my desk when I worked but now it's the cover of my binder for the cats' info (passports, medical, info on animals abroad, etc).

 

My guess is a member of the liliaceae. No idea if this is right or which one!

 

This is the type I meant, LoL - the leaves are more grass-like than usual, and they're small. I have some, and they don't look much like the usaul ones, not even when flowering....
http://www.smgrowers.com/products/plants/plantdisplay.asp?plant_id=910

But on the whole, I'd go along with Jazid, butno more specific ideas than that, sorry.

 

No, Dendro. The flower head is nothing like a poker. I'll try to take a photo of it ... well, I did when I took the other but was too close so it was fuzzy! :eek: Maybe not tomorrow as we have company.

 

It resembles Eremerus ( Foxtail Lily ) but which one I couldn`t say. David.

 

I didn't spot this until today. It is the yellow flowered form of Bulbine frutescens - a native of S. Africa where it forms broad mats of succulent foliage and wiry stems in the Eastern Cape. Most Bulbines are as the name suggests, bulbous plants (related to the Asphodels), but this is a somewhat aberrant species that uses its leaves for water and food storage.

I've grown the orange flowered form here for quite a few years and it seems to be relatively hardy along the south coast. It does best in very sharply drained gritty soils and needs a very sunny spot where it will flower almost all year round. It looks particularly good when grown down sunny banks and makes a very brave, show-stopping splash of colour when associated with the intense magenta of Delosperma cooperi.

Propagation is simplicity itself. The wiry stems are very free-rooting and new plants can be started by just cutting a rooted section away and pushing it directly into some gritty soil.

 

Well done Dave. And may I say thank you for your description as well. We are all here to learn, and I do like answers that give all the useful information as well as the name.

 

This obviously got lost somewhere as I've only just found it again looking for something else.

Thank you DaveP ... you are probably right! Thank you for that. Sometimes it takes a while but we get there in the end ... like Kedi-Gato's mystery tree!

We have the Starry Asphodels here which are rife at the moment and I recently posted in Wildflowers (of Portugal).