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medium cactus plants
$22.99
This rare cactus produces beautiful star shaped blooms.
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Weight
1 lbs
The Stapelia Gigantea, also called the Starfish Flower, is native to Cape Provinces. It is a dwarf succulent belonging to the Asclepiadaceae botanical family. The plant forms clumps and has erect, cylindrical, fleshy, green stems. The stems have four ribs, made of rounded hooked tubercles. The color of the stem can change from green to reddish/purple, depending on temperatures and sun exposure. This plant produces blooms in the summer. They form at the base of the plant. The flowers are starfish-shaped, flat, pale greenish brown outside, width up to 5-1/2 inches in diameter. The flowers give off an unpleasant smell that is similar to the smell of decomposition of a carcass, but which is useful for attracting flies and promoting pollination.
This is a slow growing plant. It likes full sun exposure, but is recommended to avoid direct sunlight during the hottest months. it needs to be placed indoors during the colder months. Needs porous soil.
You will receive 1 well-established, rooted plant, from a 4 inch pot, sent bareroot and packaged with great care. It will be shipped via USPS Priority mail.
If you are ordering from an area with weather below 32 degrees, please consider purchasing a heat pack.
Shipping Countries: United States (US)
Ready to ship in 1-3 business days
Shipping Policy
Our shipping schedule will be one day a week. This will include all orders placed by the previous Friday, as we do our plant pick up from our growers on Saturdays. We will be processing and packing orders on Mondays for shipping on Tuesdays. We ship USPS Priority Mail, which has an estimated 2-3 day travel time. After doing this for many years, we find this is the safest schedule for shipping the live plants.
Refund Policy
There are no refunds done once ordered plants have been pulled from the greenhouses. If you have any issues once your order is received please contact me directly as soon as possible so that the problem can be rectified.
PLEASE CONSIDER ORDERING A HEAT PACK IF YOU ARE ORDERING FROM AN AREA 35 DEGREES OR BELOW!! PLANTS ARE NOT GUARANTEED IF NO HEAT PACK IS ORDERED IN COLD WEATHER!!
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It’s a nice cactus. The only reason I give 2 stars is because of the description of it being rare and monstrose. It is exactly as pictured but the description certainly had me wondering. A totem pole cactus is not a San Pedro cactus and it did not look like a monstrose cactus. To clear things up for people, it is a typical pc variety cactus. Well packaged and nice specimen but run of the mill variety. Nothing rare to add to a collection