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.
Here are some pics I snapped during my visit.
Agave parryi
Um, no biggie... just a veritable FIELD of aloe striata hanging out.
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?
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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