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Originally Posted by amanzed
Aww, I love Dudleyas and want a lot more. Esp. pulverulenta, brittonii, hassei, lanceolata. I know a wild population in urban L.A. (species? wish I knew). I hope it survives!
My initial trigger of the silly portion of the thread was just a visual word scanning slip which was funny, esp. at a moment my duddies are not looking their best.  Yes - word play!
I would love to know more of the millions-of-years story of how our native California Crassulaceae diverged from their earliest common ancestors with Sedum, Graptopetalum, Echeveria, etc.
I think a lot this story remains untold.
--dean |
Dean - the first picture is also a repesentation of an "all natives" planting from the rocks to the manzanita in the background to the bulbs that have given up the ghost for this season. You might enjoy this picture of what I was told is D. calcicola -