Antimima

Antimima sp.

Like Ruschia, Antimima is a large genus of South African plants in the Ice Plant Family. Both genera suffer from a lack of available photos to help identify them, but that doesn’t stop us from appreciating their floral contributions to the garden. This one is a low spreading plant with purplish-pink flowers in winter.

-Brian

The mesemb babies are looking even more like weird baby birds asking for food! (1. Antimima fenestrata. 2. Aloinopsis rubrolineata)

(1.2 months)

Antimima pygmaea?, Viskuil | アンチミマ・ピグマエア?

海の岸壁っぽい。フジツボはきっと遠い親戚。

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Now using this blog to host a few extra images that I haven’t posted to agavex-photography​. There’s no need to reblog this.  Photo taken 30-12-17, for a Wordpress journal entry in January 2018. 

Copied from Flickr description:  “63 species for £20! And no substitutions this year because I sent off the request form the day I received it.

I'll sow the mesembs asap, but wait until the end of February before sowing any of the cacti.

Agave decipiens (Howard Gentry 2 - no idea what the 2 is for, maybe it's 2nd generation from his collection) Agave seemanniana (syn. Agave scolymus) Aloe pretoriensis ISI1827 Aloinopsis malherbii Aloinopsis orpenii Antimima dualis Antimima ventricosa Argyroderma aureum Argyroderma braunsii Argyroderma octophyllum Argyroderma subalbum Ariocarpus fissuratus v. intermedius SB503 Ariocarpus (fissuratus v.) hintonii PP352 El Herrero, SLP Ariocarpus trigonus v. elongatus San Antonio Tam. Cephalophyllum alstonii Cephalophyllum cupreum Cephalophyllum niveum Cephalophyllum spongiosum Cheiridopsis schlecteri Cheiridopsis vanzylii Copiapoa cinerascens Copiapoa dealbata v. carrizalensis Coryphantha salinensis KKR319 Dactylopsis digitata Drosanthemum floribundum Drosanthemum micans Echinopsis mirabilis Frailea angelensis P390 Gasteria armstrongii Gibbaeum haagei Gibbaeum pratense Glandulicactus uncinatus KSM 703 Gymnocactus viereckii v. major L730 Gymnocalycium berchtii Los Chanares Gymnocalycium mucidum San Blas Gymnocalycium prochazkianum ssp. simile f. nova KBA 22A Gymnocalycium spegazzinii (blackish body) Gymnocalycium spegazzinii (downward spines) KBA 47A Gymnocalycium spegazzinii v. alpinum Lampranthus argenteus Lithops dorotheae Lithops fulleri Lithops hookeri Lithops karasmontana Lithops leslei Lithops salicola Lobivia famatimensis Fr459 Lobivia ferox longispina LF128 Lobivia jajoana f. buiningiana Fr55 Maihuenia patagonica cumulata KVV1019 Mammillaria glassii (rayonensis) MK89 Mammillaria wohlschlageri RS250 Mediolobivia (Rebutia) odehnalii JO414 Neoporteria (Eriosyce) rupicola Pleiospilos nelii Pleiospilos simulans Ruschia macrocarpa Ruschia strubeniae Semnanthus lacera Strombocactus pulcherrimus RS547 Sulcorebutia hertusii v. auricapillata LH893 Thelocactus heterochromus Vanheerdia divergens”

Antimima excedens

This plant, like many species in its genus, was formerly placed in Ruschia. Both groups are in the Aizoaceae, or Ice Plant Family, and they are in the process of being sorted out - a big job, since there are hundreds of species. Flower colors in the pink-to-purple range are the norm for both genera. Antimima excedens comes from the Knersvlakte region near Vanrhynsdorp.

-Brian

Antimima sp.

There are about 1,800 species in the Ice Plant Family (Aizoaceae), and while some of these are commonly seen in cultivation, others are quite unknown. Most of the 100 species in the genus Antimima fall into the latter category, and it is not easy to identify plants because of the lack of available illustrations. The genus is closely related to Ruschia, but is more concentrated in the winter-rainfall area in the western part of South Africa (there are winter-rainfall plants in Ruschia as well, but also lots of them from farther east where the rains come in summer). Perhaps the plant pictured is not destined to take the horticultural world by storm, but it is nice to have it putting on a show in late autumn in any case.

-Brian

The Antimima fenestrata seedlings I sowed for Jane Perrone’s podcast’s #OTLSowalong have gotten their first true leaves!

They look a little like weird baby bird beaks popping out.

The other mesembs (Aloinopsos rubrolineata, Diplosoma retroversum) I sowed at the same time have all germinated as well. (24 days from sowing for all as of these photos)

It’s hard to see, but at 20 days post-sowing, the Antimima fenestra seedlings are developing their first true leaves!

I also like how the individual cells of the plant are so large that it creates a sort of scintillating effect on their surfaces. (Or at least that’s what I’m assuming.)

This is incredibly fast compared to a lot of the succulent seedlings I’ve raised. A lot of mesembs and crassulaceans seem to take their sweet time putting out true leaves or doing much at all in general.

Took some good Instagram stories the other day 🥬💚🌱

I got my actual seeds for the #OTLSowalong that aren’t just spring gardening/food plants! It is all mesembs in here. One of the Antimima seeds has germinated as of today!

The species I’m sowing are

Antimima fenestrata

Diplosoma retroversum and

Aloinopsis rubrolineata

It’s been a little over a week and lots of tiny babies have popped up! The plants on the left are Antimima fenestrata and on the right is the Aloinopsis rubrolineata planter.

Mesembs have tiny seeds and babies, but they’re not quite as bad as Crassulaceans which look like ground cinnamon when I’ve gotten them. If you look closely you can see little orange-brown specks a little smaller than the grains of sand. 

I bought some fine sand from the plant shop to see if I can use that to fill in any cracks or gaps in the medium and make it easier for them to root and get established, which is a problem I almost always have with tiny seedlings.

Antimima sp.

The genus Antimima is related to the larger genus Ruschia in the Ice Plant Family (Aizoaceae), but species in the genus are not often seen in cultivation. This one was received without a species name, but comes from southwest of Nieuwoudtville in the Bokkeveld Mountains of western South Africa. It is very nice to have this splash of lavender-pink in the garden in November and December. Of course, this would flower at the opposite time of the year in its Southern Hemisphere home.

-Brian

amateurplant replied to your photo “It’s hard to see, but at 20 days post-sowing, the Antimima fenestra...”

these look so much like my glottihpyllum linguiforme-seedlings!! They're also putting out their first true leaves right now :)

Yay! Mesemb buddies! Glottiphylum was another candidate for a Sowalong plant I was thinking of! They’re so weird and floppy!