I know it's not a particularly attractive plant, but I actually like it. :) In fact, I just brought one home (on purpose) the other day.

Viper's Head - now that's an ugly plant. I don't own one, but I definitely think it's uglier than the MOT.


*CG*

Here is a link that might be useful: Pseudolithos

I like them too but they're more attractive, to me, when they're young. I have a bunch of them, different sizes, grown in different light, also the B. tubiflorum.
This one's in its third year and with the dead flowers and all, it looks pretty gnarly. It did catch the light just right this morning, though.

Had this for a while. Was grafted to a cactus stock. Was too top heavy so broke it off an planted it on it's own. This cactus is unknown to me and is very heavy. Tried to give it away and nobody wants it. Now that's ugly.
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Stush, I just adore that plant, actually. I'd be over the moon and would adopt it in a second!!

Hi Stush,

I think this is a Euphorbia, maybe E. lactea (crest). Does it bleed white sap? If so, that can confirm it's Euphorbia, tho' there are other plants which bleed white sap.

Not my cup of tea, but it's an interesting form.

CAUTION: (if you don't already know this) some Euphorbia sap is known to be a skin irritant. We always caution folks not to touch their face or mucuous membranes before washing well.

I think Stush's plant may be a monstrose form of Cereus, I seem to see quite a cacti type spines in some areas...A closer photo would help.

Christopher

Hey, I am with CG on this one!

And that other one would also find a great place to live at my work.

Karen, by the way, my variegated Red Blush Ficus/Rubber tree bleeds white too. I had to stop the bleeding yesterday after it fell to the ground and its two heads/tops snapped off. Yikes

Mike

Yes thanks Mike, I know Ficus often bleed white as well (that's why I mentioned that plants bleed white other than the Euphorbia). However, it's the Euphorbia sap which can be dangerous & quite harmful, depending on the plant.

Some Hoyas bleed white, I took a Lacunosa cutting this wknd which bled white. I know for sure H Kerrii does as anybody who has ever tried to trellis it will attest that it releases LOTS of sap that looks like Elmer's Glue.

I believe & have heard (but can't swear) that Ficus elastica (Rubber Tree) sap was a source of rubber early in the 1900s coming along with the birth of the auto industry.

I don't recall who it was who recently posted very carunculated (sp ?, sorry) Echeveria which I'd sure vote for major ugly.

Stush2049 ~ I love that plant ! Awesome !

Stush, I guess ugly is in the eye of the beholder.
I have a soft spot for the cristate so I see a beautiful plant, though yours definitely qualifies as gnarly. Thanks for sharing.

Stush: Wow, I seem to be #204 in line, but I would love to take that plant off your hands! I think it's gorgeous!

Hanz: You're right, that MOT is looking awfully striking in that lighting. :)

Mike: Oh no! Is your ficus ok? I hate it when that happens! I lost a few lobes on my little baby Opuntia when we transported my plants from the old house to the new, and I actually cried. (I was also severely stressed out, so that probably had something to do with it, too...)

Christopher: A Cereus monstrose is exactly what I was thinking the moment I laid eyes on Stush's monster. I have one myself, a C. peruvianus monstrose, and I just bought another one that I'm going to give to a friend. I submit photos for comparison:

Hanzrobo, I believe your beautiful plant is not Bryophyllum diagremontianum, but rather Kalanchoe x houghtonii (previously Bryophyllum 'Houghton's Hybrid').

Nice contest! :P

Karen, It is a cactus. I will share pieces with all. I'll have to make a list and start cutting it up. Sometimes a large piece breaks off I'll start it up to give away. I had to talk my son into taking it home. still, email me and starting spring I'll start to ship them out. stanqk1@verizon.net
Stush

O dear, please don't cut it up. It is beautiful just as it is. Take it to a nearby C&S show, win a trophy.

How about stumps? Do they qualify?

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Stush..think my Ugly Plant is a smaller version of yours..What do you think?

Got mine at Walgreen's Pharmacy, of all places.

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Toni

Jeff, that is one wicked stump! Looks like you wrapped it in ostrich skin. Definitely qualifies.

You gonna root those K.o's to the deck?

Here is Ugly Lucy, but, SSHHHHH, please don't tell her that. She is having a hard enough time already. She was SO gorgeous before those two wicked cold fronts last year but now she is need of an Extreme Makeover.. She can do 15F but 12F and 11F is just too cold for her. She is slowly being dismembered. She recovered from the awful drought just abit this gentle fall and in her joyful delirium thought it was spring and put out some new growth and now they have not gotten toughened sufficiently so our 23F cold front has nipped them. I hope there are better days ahead for her. I might have to dismember her further and make her into the Ugly Lucettes. Pray for her or their return onto the beauty show circuit.

oh wow! I absolutely love everyone's ugly plants! lol! Wantonamara, you can tell Lucy I think she is absolutely gorgeous, despite her ordeal!

Here is my "ugly" plant. His name is Ichabod (I think he kinda looks like he has a pumpkin head like the headless horseman...) People say he's ugly, but this old Astrophytum is my absolute favorite plant I have! I think he has a lot of character, even if he wouldn't win any beauty contest!

Toni, I do believe you have one like mine. I bought mine at Home Depot some years ago. Looked good grafted on a cactus stock but the head grew too big fast. And just kept growing and growing.
leahrenee1, Half ugly is being too kind. As I started to stroll down it just kept getting uglier. Started to scare me. Good thing the kids are not home.
Ugly Lucy should get a pad make-over befor it's too late.
Wow what a posting

Leah, that Myrmecodia does do the trick for me personally...ugly thing! :)

Poor Lucy!

I love how you all have a soft spot for these ugly things and that your beauties have not taken precendent in this case!

Just goes to show you the true characrter of so many here.lol Quite nice actually.

Funny this is, I like them all.

Mike

Leah, that Myrmecodia is one cool plant! Not ugly in my book!

Christopher

Here is Lucy back "in the day".

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Leahrenee:
Your myrmecodia is beautiful!
I was wondering if you bought the plant or grew it from seed? do you know anything about where to get seeds for this plant or how to propagate it? Thanks!
Paul

Just picked this up yesterday at the sarsota succulent society (great place if you can get over there to check it out!):

I know it's a Euphorbia, but that is as far as I've got IDing it. Any guesses?

Here are it's leaves:

sorry to bring this old thing up, but i had to share mine :P

Heres my ugly plant ... its an etiolated echeveria something ... with scale ... i dont know if the fluffyness would make it any cuter ...

Hey Zeck!

That's a Crassula capitella ssp thrysflora and those nasty occupants are mealy bugs, much worse than scale. A beautiful plant with a very ugly condition.

It's very easy to propagate from leaves. I would suggest removing and cleaning a handful of leaves and then discarding the plant. Sorry.

Thanks for the id ... i dont know why i got confuzzled on it :P

So it isnt cochineal scale? It has red juices like that does ... do cochineal scale and mealy bug mean the same thing? I have another one of these plants so i just threw this one out ... and thankfully the other one isnt etiolated

Zech,

IIRC, there are hundreds of species of mealy bug in existence, never mind CA alone. I don't know if cochineal is actually a mealy bug (I think it is) but I have a dream of starting up a dye op with acres of infested Opuntia. On the list of dreams, it's not at the top, but a fellow can hope.

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Right side: Euphorbia Excelsa Monstrose

Left side: Somewhere between ugly trunks and mealy bugs you made me laugh today so the thing on the right is your bonus.
After all do we really need to dot all our eyes.