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watermelon plant succulent Senecio herreanus – String of WatermelonsString of Watermelon, botanically listed as Senecio herreianus, is a live succulent plant selected for its distinctive form and ornamental appeal. Natural color, size, form, and presentation may vary slightly with season, maturity, and growing conditions. Senecio herreianus, commonly known as String of Watermelon, is a charming and unique succulent that belongs to the Asteraceae family. This decorative plant is popular among houseplant enthusiasts due
String of Watermelon, botanically listed as Senecio herreianus, is a live succulent plant selected for its distinctive form and ornamental appeal. Natural color, size, form, and presentation may vary slightly with season, maturity, and growing conditions.
Senecio herreianus, commonly known as String of Watermelon, is a charming and unique succulent that belongs to the Asteraceae family. This decorative plant is popular among houseplant enthusiasts due to its distinctive appearance and relatively easy care. Here’s a detailed description of its morphological characteristics, growth habits, maintenance points, and reproduction methods.
Morphological Characteristics
- Structure: Senecio herreianus features long, trailing stems that can grow several feet in length. These stems are slender and bear closely spaced, fleshy leaves.
- Leaves: The leaves are the most distinctive feature of this plant, resembling small, plump watermelons. They are green with lighter, translucent stripes that run longitudinally, giving them a watermelon-like appearance. The leaves are typically about 0.5 to 1 inch long and are spherical or slightly elongated in shape.
- Flowers: The plant produces small, brush-like flowers that are generally white or pale pink. These flowers bloom in clusters from the tips of the stems, adding a subtle charm when they appear, usually in the fall or early winter.
Growth Habits
- Light: Senecio herreianus thrives in bright, indirect sunlight. Direct sunlight can scorch the leaves, while too little light can cause the stems to become leggy and the leaf color to fade.
- Temperature: It prefers temperatures between 60°F and 80°F (15°C to 26°C). It is not frost-tolerant and should be protected from temperatures below 50°F (10°C).
- Humidity: This plant does well in average indoor humidity but will appreciate occasional misting in very dry conditions.
Maintenance Points
- Watering: Like most succulents, the String of Watermelon prefers a "soak and dry" method for watering. Allow the soil to dry out completely between waterings to prevent root rot. Reduce watering in the winter when the plant's growth slows down.
- Soil: A well-draining succulent mix is crucial to prevent waterlogging and root diseases. Incorporating sand or perlite can enhance drainage.
- Feeding: Fertilize during the growing season (spring and summer) with a diluted balanced, liquid succulent fertilizer about once a month. Do not fertilize in the winter.
- Pruning: Regular pruning can help maintain a bushy, lush appearance and encourage more growth. It also helps control the length of the trails, keeping them from becoming too long and tangled.
Reproduction Method
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Propagation: Senecio herreianus can be easily propagated from both leaf cuttings and stem cuttings.
- Leaf Cuttings: Simply pluck a leaf and let it callous for a few days before placing it on well-draining soil. Keep the soil lightly moist until roots begin to develop.
- Stem Cuttings: Cut a section of stem, let it callous for a few days to prevent rotting, and then plant it in succulent soil mix. Water sparingly until roots form.
Senecio herreianus is a delightful addition to any indoor garden, adding a touch of whimsy with its watermelon-like foliage. With proper care and occasional propagation, it can provide endless enjoyment and even become a conversation starter due to its unique appearance.
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★★★★★ 3
Impressive sources, sophomoric writing.
Format: Kindle
Should everyone read this book? Certainly. But the writing is too poor for me to offer an enthusiastic four or five star recommendation. I'm surprised an editor did not clean this up so that the book could live up to its eye-opening content.
This already short book has quite a lot of distracting, repetitive padding. Symbolic of this is the use of the phrase "of course" - it appears thirty times.
More repetition appears in the author's needless (and, I would say, presumptuous) dwelling on the reader's emotional reactions to the content of the book: the idea that America might have influenced the Nazis is "too awful to contemplate," and "is sure to seem distressing," and "hard to digest," and "no one wants to imagine" it, and "none of this is entirely easy to talk about," and "it is hard to look coolly on the question," and "it is hard to admit," and "no one wants to be perceived as relativizing," and "no non-Germans want their country to be accused," and "it is hard to overcome our sense that..." and "painful though it may be for us to admit..." and "awful it may be to contemplate," and "the story of American influence...is certainly depressing," and so on and so forth. Nevertheless, "To be sure, we must keep our composure..."
This repetition gets exhausting in a single 56-word sentence invoking the phrases "true nefandum...abyss of unexampled modern horror...sui generis radical evil...a sort of dark star."
More padding appears in the author's concern with arguing against weak positions: "We can, and should, reject the sort of simple-minded anti-Americanism..." "It would be a mistake to draw overblown conclusions..." Well, yes, simple-minded anything is to be rejected, as are overblown conclusions about anything. But that doesn't stop the author from presenting repetitive arguments.
Additional filler that an editor should have excised is in the form of these phrases, which read like a student trying to hit a required word count in a term paper: "It is important to note that..." "In particular it is essential to emphasize..." "We must bear that fact in mind..." "It is an unpleasant truth that..." "Worthy of attention above all is..." "It is particularly noteworthy that..." "Sahm is a particularly noteworthy author..."
Finally, the author descends into a kind of bullying that indicates a lack of confidence in his own presentation: "Our literature has taken a crass interpretative track." "It is a major interpretative fallacy on the part of all these scholars..."It would be foolish and craven to minimize Nazi interest in what American law represented." "It is essential to reject once and for all the proposition that American law could not have been of interest to the Nazis." "It is simply nonsense to claim..." "Once we dispose of that dubious claim..." "There can be no justification for ignoring the evidence..." "Only a naive and pedestrian understanding of law - only a dogged refusal to face facts..." An editor should have deleted these kinds of phrases and just let the content - the documenting of Nazi interest in America law - speak for itself.
With all this rhetorical padding, the book is overpriced. Nevertheless it has value as a kind of annotated bibliography.
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Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2017
★★★★★ 5
Thoughtful, well researched, not a "fun" read
Format: Hardcover
This was a very thoughtful look at a topic I didn't know much about. It talks about prewar anti race mixing laws and immigration laws in the USA and other laws used to strip rights from nonwhites in the USA and how those laws were studied by Nazis who wrote laws for the third reich and what they thought of each other. The author obviously put a lot of research and thought into this work but is careful not to jump to any conclusions.
This book is very dense and as someone who is not a lawyer or anything, I could follow it but I had to read it more slowly than most other nonfiction books. Still very worth picking up if you are interested in the topic, though!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2018
★★★★★ 5
I really love the fact that he criticized President Obama for his ...
Format: Kindle
I must say, I am EXTREMELY biased towards Tim Wise. I adore him. He is a well-educated, genuine wordsmith. He shuts down the mess that we hear perpetrated on a daily basis regarding colorblind politics. In this book, he shuts down "colorblindness". I really love the fact that he criticized President Obama for his lack of legislation specifically for African-Americans. That was an issue I had with him and I believe that several African-Americans feel the same way. I understand, like Tim Wise, the position of President Obama and how easy it would have been for him to fall into a stereotype. I also believe that, no matter what he did, he will always be stereotyped, so why not help out the people who got you elected?
Great book by a "Wise" man.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2017
★★★★★ 5
Insights on the new racism
Format: Paperback
Wise, with good insight and armed with up-to-date facts, compellingly portrays the new strategies that have been developed within the US political system that actually serve to perpetuate racism in our society. Scary and brutal--a must read for anyone who really wants to know how our society subtley and not so subtley pushes a White supremacy agenda without even knowing it.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 29, 2010
★★★★★ 4
Enjoyed. I need to start ordering audio books because ...
Format: Paperback
Enjoyed. I need to start ordering audio books because of vision problems.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2016