Watering: It needs moderate water during from spring to autumn, keep rather dry in winter or the plants may rot at the base.
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Soil: It requires a very free draining enriched soil, mildly acidic to mildly alkaline but is very tolerant of poor soils. It's fresh new winter growth provides extraordinary form and colour contrast in the landscape when placed either with other succulents (e.g.
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This plant grows as a groundcover and makes a very ornamental pale blue colouring in full sun in warm climates. ficoides has flattened, more grey than blue-green leaves. Them all make interesting groundcover (iceplant, basically) for xeriscaping.
Disc florets 9–15, perfect, white.Ĭhromosome number: Senecio ficoides is a vigorous durable decaploid (2n = 100) species.Ĭultivation and Propagation: Senecio talinoides and Senecio ficoides are similar for many reasons: both succulent plants, similar in terms of morphology, they have virtually identical requirements in terms of cultivation. Phyllaries (scales) 7–8 Ray florets none. Inflorescences: Corymbose or subcorymbose at the summit. Leaves: 8-15 cm long, 7-9 mm wide and to 15 mm thick, fleshy, erect, laterally compressed, nerveless, acuminate, powdery-glaucous and waxy with longitudinal stripes. Stem: Fleshy and brittle, erect or reclining when long, branched, 8 - 12 mm in diameter, with leaf-scars below Senecio ficoides is a very common species and local variants are commonplace, but its leaves, which are always taller than wide, distinguish it from the group around Senecio talinoides. It is popular in cultivation since 1702, edible, and recently valued as a grafting stock for other succulent senecios. Small clusters of cream-coloured flower heads are borne on the branch ends. It is one of the most ornamental, with strongly tapered, succulent leaves that have a grey waxy bloom on their surfaces. Description: Senecio ficoides, firstly described as Cacalia ficoides by Linnaeus in 1753, is a small evergreen, quite glabrous, pruinose succulent shrublet to 1 metre or more.
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