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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.