Slipper Plant (Pedilanthus macrocarpus)

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Xenomorf Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Feb 16, 2006

Slipper Plant
Pedilanthus macrocarpus

The fruit & flower in the background in Late September, Late Summer, zone 9b

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CactusJordi El Cajon, CA Sep 19, 2014

I really doubt that any the photos entered by Xeromorph to this topic are Pedilanthus macrocarpus.
1) too green epidermis, 2) too thin a by far too many branches and 3) the seed-pods lack the typical four to six 'horns'.

Jordi

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Xenomorf Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Sep 23, 2014

That's what the Desert Botanical Garden is calling it. Do you have an alternate ID?
(btw, you spelled my nickname wrong)

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CactusJordi El Cajon, CA Sep 24, 2014

Sorry to have spelled your nickname wrong and much dryer :-))
And also sorry, that I don't have an ID for the Pedilanthus species in your photos. DBG obviously tends to miss-id species like the HBG does occasionally.
Might it be a Pedilanthus growing further north than Baja California or on mainland Mexico? At least all the Pedilanthus macrocarpus we have growing in the Baja Garden of the former Wild Animal Park (now San Diego Zoo Safari Park) have these 'horns' on their seed-pods.

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Xenomorf Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Sep 26, 2014

When I was photographing them, I noticed some of the branches were monstrose, would that account for the differences?

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CactusJordi El Cajon, CA Sep 26, 2014

No, because the real Pedilanthus macrocarpus develops monstrous growth (mainly crests) now and then also.

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Xenomorf Phoenix, AZ(Zone 9b) Oct 22, 2014

My first 3 photos on the Plant Entry page all have some branches that are monstrose (and may end up cresting maybe). Those first three photos are of the plants at the DBG, same plants that the flowers and seed pods are on.

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