Edithcolea Grandis * Persian Carpet Flower * Succulent Extremely Rare 3 Seeds

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3 SEEDS<br>Edithcolea is a monotypic genus with a single species Edithcolea grandis .<br>The genus is named after Miss Edith Cole (1859-1940).<br>She collected the type material for this plant together with Mrs. Lort Philips in 1895, during a botanical expedition in northern Somalia.<br>Edithcolea grandis is a succulent plant with leafless richly branched perennial and decumbent stems with a diameter of 2 to 4 cm and up to 30 cm in length .<br>The glabrousstems are 4 or 5 angled and armed with regularly placed hard and acute spinelike teeth ortubercules.<br>The base color of the plant varies from green to red with brownish spots.<br>The bisexual flowers are 8 to 13 cm in diameter and are formed near the apex of the branches.<br>The outside or back side of the flower is yellow to green.<br>The inside consist of a pale yellow base color with a purple-reddish pattern of spots at the outside that gradually become smaller near the inner corona, which has itself has concentric reddish lines.<br>Long purple hairs are present at the border of the brim of the outer corolla lobes.<br>The remarkable flower is at times described as the Persian carpet flower.<br>The carrion-like smell of the flowers attracts flies and other insects for pollination.<br>require much light and relatively high winter temperatures.<br>