Hi, Tracy, I have a stapelia, but I don't know if it is the one you are looking for. I don't know how to post a picture here, but I can email you a picture if you want me to. It grows similar to a rattail cactus and has a small maroon bloom. It is very pretty. I also have hardy cactus that has a very pretty bright orange bloom, it is in bloom now if you want me to send a picture. I am very very interested in getting a trade of your hen & chicks Kalinda and Ruby Heart. If you don't like the plants I have listed here, PLEASE look at my trade list and see if anything there interests you. Kathie

this is Pendula...i have (2) 5in pots of it. not huge plants, but they are not huge long plants anyway, they break segments easily but bloom frequently to. Heres what it looks like. Bloom, the plant has thin pencil thick type stems,very light green to almost a golden color, and it is in segments about pencil long,or less, VERY easy to root. I looked for my plant pic. cant find it, but i find segments off of them from time to time. I plant them up if i want to start a new plant. They are a smallish plant, a main center, like an octopus almost, and it sends out stems from the center and the segments grow loner, till they snap off from wind or getting hit by something the flowers are tiny and do hang downward. thats about it. No odor, and they look like tiny little bells. Hope that helps. Any pics of your plant?

B, What you're suffering from sounds like an issue many growers here have encountered before. The good news is that you there are ways to fix this. First though, could you tell us what kind of pots you're using? And this may seem a bit unnecessary to ask but, do your pots have drainage holes or some way that the water can drain away? My first thought upon reading your soil recipe is that it is very high in fine-particled, organic matter. Altogether you've got almost a 2:1 ratio of organic material:inorganic material. What this means is that water is going to hang around in the pot for an amount of time that will have a negative effect on the root zone. In the summer, I suspect that your plants are rotting due to a combination of moist conditions in the lower parts of the pot offering a lush breeding ground for the bacteria+fungi associated with root rot and the plants being already slightly stressed (potentially due to drought stress or potentially due to the roots not being able to perform the level of gas exchange that would be optimal). One way to correct this is to use a more inorganic based mix and water more frequently. Another way would be to use a wick or even a ballast. I'd suggest checking out the writings of our own Al (@tapla) over on the container gardening forum for more information on how to decide on a course of action. Best of luck.

I can take some small cuttings of some of my Hoyas (by small I mean only 1 or 2 nodes). They're all pretty new and haven't grown much yet (except for the H. bella), so I can't offer big ones. I have more than a dozen different ones so I might have something you'd like. If you're interested, email me. BP