Subgenus Haworthia

Section Retusae - Gallery 8c

SUBSECTION RETUSAE

Haworthia Photo Galleries

Taxonomy

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From seed ex CG and sown 01/09/1989

Information with the seed said 'large form' but this one clone is relatively small with upturned leaf tips and is outstanding.

These 2nd & 3rd NEW photographs show the plant becoming dichotomous at Ø 100mm when it was sold at Auction at the Haworthia Society Convention in Leicester 2007

From seed ex Yui Ochi, Japan as YO # 610 and sown on 10/07/1989

4 plants resulted from 5 seeds - this one being outstanding with vein-like lines on the pale, retuse surface.

CC 2015 H. emelyae v. comptoniana

Six nice plants resulted from 20 seeds received from Raymond Dedeyne, RD 93-5, and sown on 21/11/1993.

Plenty of good light, good but well-drained compost, a little fertilizer almost every watering - but not too much water and you should be able to achieve this colouration.

But only if the clone is genetically capable of producing it in the first place.

Worth a try though!

CC 29 H. emelyae v. comptoniana

A translucent form obtained from Jumanery for £5.00 in 06/1985.

At that time it comprised a 5 leaved rosette with leaves each 1.7cm wide.

By 03/1987 the rosette had developed into 9+ glassy-tipped retuse leaves with the largest leaf being 2.4cm wide. Today it's 10cms in diameter and still a single rosette.

I didn't have an easy ride with this plant and learnt a lot from the experience.

In the hot and bright conservatory, at that time, it would split and develop brown tips and/or brown patches at the drop of a hat. I decided to pot it into a clay pot so that I could water it more freely without over watering it. When the present Haworthia greenhouse was erected I placed it in a cooler area where it received dappled shade from our deciduous weeping-willow tree.

Eventually, it settled down. In 2002 I repotted it back into a square, plastic pot and, so far so good. I do believe we've learnt to live with one another's eccentricities!

CC 29 H. emelyae v. comptoniana, cropped close-up to show you the translucency of the leaves.

In the meantime I had used it in the earlier crosses with CC 132 H. springbokvlakensis which resulted in the glossy, waxen hybrid, seed batch number CCO 28 which were sown on 17/06/1989. Those are much more reliable and very popular.

CC 388 H. emelyae v. comptoniana - large form.

This came to me in 1989 from Roberto Mangani of Italy with the message, "Big plant - maybe it's Pilbeam's giant form".

By 09/2001 its 7th leaf was commencing, the leaf tips were juicy, well netted and the rosette was 4.5cm high by 11.5cm diam.

It was repotted into a 4.5" square pot on 08/09/2001 and is now 11cms in diameter.

This was one of the parent plants used for the more lacy form of the cross with H. springbokvlakensis in 1991 - (seed batch numbers CCO 196 and CCO 197).

CC 396 H. emelyae v. comptoniana -  large form

SS 211 received as a leaf from SS at the first Haworthia Society Symposium in Buckden 10/1988.

By 5/1989 it had 6 leaves and had settled well. By 9/2001 it had become dichotomous. The richly dark & glossy colouration shows up the silvery veins very well.

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Taxonomy