Rhombophyllum dolabriforme are really easy mesembs to keep, they don't need much sun and they like water. I really like the leaf-shapes, like little mittens. Every plant looks different and they are relatively fast growers so great for the impatient. This first one was a freebie, it came up in the pot of a different mesemb that I bought from a nursery. The decond one is a cutting that I rooted about a year ago.
Here it is flowering last spring and quite a lot smaller. Rhombophyllums als like rich soil so I plant them in straight cacti and succulent mix and leave them outside all year round under a shady tree.
Mesembs are quite easy plants to kill but this species is ideal for a beginner grower, or those who got excited with mesembs and bought all sorts of pretty, difficult plants and killed them (me) and decided to start again with difficult plants only after growing plants like these.
And an update on the Babytoes: I haven't succeeded in killing them yet, they are growing tiny new leaves and I am managing to keep my watering cup away from them. Aren't they cute! Unlike me, they are loving this cold weather. It still feels strange to me to have plants that only grow in winter. This is one of them
