This species of succulent called Senecio Stapeliiformis or as it is called with the Latin synonym Senecio stapelia or as I knew it, as a pencil cactus, because of the curious shape it has that resembles this small object. We can find them spread throughout South Africa. They are characterized as unique stems that can branch from both the base and the tips.
They do not usually get very large, reaching at most thirty centimeters high and are dark green and grey. It makes very small blades that are shaped like a spade. Although it likes sunlight very much, but it should not be exposed to direct sunlight, as what has unfortunately happened to me may happen to you, namely that the sun burns it on you. Yes, it likes the direct sun, but always from the precaution of the central hours of the day to the hottest times of giving some shadow, if you don’t get through what I have already said, that he can burn and therefore die.
It makes it a succulent ideal for interior, window-sided or room-highly lit, without touching the direct sun. If the place you are in love with, we can enjoy its flowering, because it is one of the species that makes the flowers most persistent of all while being very beautiful and persistent. They are red and can be seen between the end of summer and the middle of autumn.
To irrigate them, they go the opposite of the other cacti and succulent except for some genus. Their resting season is in summer and the peak of activity is in winter, when unlike the others, in summer it is when they are busy and in winter at rest. Well, with that in mind, in summer, you will have to irrigate very little, at most once a month, and irrigate moderately for the rest of the year, waiting that the substrate to be completely dry before you supply water again. The lowest temperature should not be less than the eight positive degrees.
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