Hoodiopsis Hybrid

I recieved my plant from an Ebay sale. While there are references to the name, with photographs available on the web at this time, there ...Read Moreare few cultural notes.

As I currently understand it, care is similar to Hoodia or other Stapeliads. Summer water, with dry winters. If plants appear too dry in winter, water lightly.

In comparing it to other Stapeliads in my collection, it appears to be an average grower.

Information from a DG forum discussion on this plant:

Hortus Third:

One species, a succulent, leafless, perennial herb, native to SW Africa; stems 7-9 angled, the angles toothed; flowers solitary, arising from middle of stems, corolla nearly flat but with a broadly depressed, open tube, 6-lobed to beyond the middle, corona of 2 whorls, united at base, each 5-lobed; fruit a follicle.

Triebneri Luckh. Stems to 8 in. or more, with prominent, spine-tipped teeth; corolla to 4 in. across, densell papillate, wine-red, unmarked, corona purple-black.

Herman Jacobsen's "A Handbook of Succulent Plants," Vol. II:

Hoodiopsis triebneri Luckh. ... S.W. Africa: Gr. Namaqualand -- Similar to Hoodia. Plant forming clumps to 30 cm. diameter; stems erect, branched from base, 12 to 18 cm long, 3 cm in diameter, glabrous, with 7-9 high angles, these with prominent, compressed processes, which terminate in a small tooth, light green, purple striate; flowers solitary from the middle of the stems, with a round stalk 2.5 cm long, corolla ovate-rhomboidal in the bud, 3.5 cm long, when expanded 10.5 cm in diameter, tube 5 cm in diameter, lobes spreading,, 2.5-3 cm long, 3-3.5 cm wide at the base, towards apex a little laterally curved, margins recurved, outside green or pale shell-pink, inside everywhere rough papillate, with 5 longitudinal grooves and alternate convexities upon the lobes, deep wine-red. Cultivation as for Hoodia.