Succulent Persian Carpet Flower

Edithcolea grandis persian carpet flower is a succulent with leafless richly branched stems and attractive pale yellow flowers with red brown spots.

Succulent persian carpet flower.

Persian carpet flower is occasionally cultivated as an ornamental in desert gardens worldwide. The stems have sharp green to red teeth. It has gained a reputation as a particularly difficult plant to keep alive because of its very specific growing needs with much light and relatively high above 60 f 15 c winter temperatures. Edithcolea grandis is also commonly known as the persian carpet flower.

Edithcolea grandis is a one of the handsomest and most distinct of all the stapelioid group. The cacti is a leafless beautiful plant that grows a large pale yellow flower with red to brown spots. The carrion like smell of the flowers attracts flies and other insects for pollination. Long purple hairs are present at the border of the brim of the outer corolla lobes.

The remarkable flower is at times described as the persian carpet flower. Require much light and relatively high winter temperatures. As the plant grows you can expect it to reach 30 cm 12 long and around 4 cm 1 6 in diameter. Edithcolea grandis persian carpet flower edithcolea grandis is a succulent with no leaves.

The five angled stems are 2 3cm in diameter more or less branched and armed with hard brown very acute spinelike teeth.