Flowering crab claw-- Monadenium spectabile

cactuspic · Post by **cactuspic** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 7:53 am

Nothing soft or gentle about this flower in gnarled shades of red and green. Native to Tanzania.

Hope you enjoy.

Irwin

Hope you enjoy.

Irwin[img]

beetleman · Post by **beetleman** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 1:06 pm

Gee, that name is right on isn`t it

Are the spines very hard or just sorta fleshy stiff? Looks like a very specialty type of flower...like an orchid.

cactuspic · Post by **cactuspic** » Thu Feb 01, 2007 8:01 am

Sorry Doug

Meant to list the name: Monadenium spectablile. It is in the euphorbia family (although some taxonomist treat monadenium and euphobias separately) from Tanzania. It is an unusual plant to say the least.

Irwin

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 3:21 am

Very interesting!

Those flowers are sharing the features of the whole plant in appearance.

cactuspic · Post by **cactuspic** » Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:37 pm

Thanks Doug & Nikola,

Doug, I forgot to mention that the spines are more fleshy than hard on this one.

Irwin