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UC Davis's Succulent Campus

9/30/2014

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On Friday, I had the pleasure of visiting the UC Davis campus for a reason quite unrelated to plants.  (But then, for a succ-er, nothing is ever totally unrelated to plants, is it?)  In addition to visiting the fabulous botanical conservatory there (which will likely be the subject of my next post), I meandered around campus a bit, where I found succulents at every turn!  Some were labeled and clearly well-maintained.  Others were just hanging out, like, "Yeah, I'm an agave victoria reginae, or horrida, or whatever, but let's not make a big deal of it."  

Here are some pics I snapped during my visit.
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Agave parryi
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Um, no biggie... just a veritable FIELD of aloe striata hanging out.
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This looks a whole lot like my agave horrida ssp. horrida, so I'm guessing this is what it is.
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Agave victoria-reginae
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The spines make this look like an agave macroacantha. But the coloring is more like an agave little shark... any guesses?
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I have no idea what this is, but it's certainly gorgeous.
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My inability to even *attempt* to label this betrays the fact that I know almost nothing about aloes.
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Um, we're just a huge clump of partially variegated gasteria hanging out unobtrusively. No biggie.
The campus landscaping is actually kind of an interesting mix of planned landscaping and haphazard/natural landscaping, which made me wonder if different people are responsible for different areas of campus.  Either way, the result is cool.
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Enchplant
9/30/2014 03:39:30 pm

I think the plant you didn't know is Echium wildprettii. Great photos. Nice blog

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Debra Lee Baldwin link
10/1/2014 06:29:10 am

I love the grounds of UC Davis! Their staff horticulturist Ernesto Sandoval likely would be happy to ID anything for you. I wish I'd been writing down names when I was there, and he was showing me aloes I'd never seen or heard of before. What I found most interesting is that some of them had survived record low temps---yet another reason to know what the heck they are!

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Candy Suter link
10/6/2014 08:58:03 am

The succulents at UC Davis are indeed spectacular. I went on a tour with Ernesto Sandoval and wow what an interesting place. Did you get to see inside the greenhouses? Your eyes would have bugged out!

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Katie link
10/7/2014 12:46:53 am

I sure did, and it was awesome! I'll likely put the pics up in a post later this week. :)

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Jess link
10/17/2014 08:56:00 pm

Gorgeous specimens! Know how you feel... when you treat a prized plant like royalty and it struggles along, and then the same kind of plant in someone else's neglected garden is going great guns... Happens to me all the time... sickening!

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