Calvin Ross Sperling field notebooks, 1980-1984
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older leaves & there is dried sun yellow- otherwise leave green - succulent. lower 1 petaloid reddish, especially on the upper side, leaf veins ending in enlarged spine - thicker, more succulent flower green. also large - in empower to willem., the style red very short , tri parts to top of ovule ? - stamens delibrating away from stigma sepals (hoods) green and rare a few she some in willem. petals D - not topped like willem., influence oppositely thickening slightly of flowering. seeds falling at one or mature a carrier. flower greenish - to cream greenish, after flowering sepals 1 petal again curve in and surround the developing seed, leaves in shade much larger, leaves dropping - yet xkb stem (quite old stem) will produce new shoots at a node. old shoot stem D was red between the nodes where the stem was turned and wining but not at the nodes.