What Is Dolphin Flower?

Dolphin Plant, or String of Dolphins (Senecio peregrinus), is a rare variety of trailing succulent that looks like a pod of leaping dolphins. This uncommon hybrid is a cross of String of Pearls (S. rowleyanus

rowleyanus
Senecio rowleyanus is a naturally occurring species from South Africa. In its native habitat, it grows as a ground cover in rocky outcroppings. It creeps among the rocks with stems up to three feet long. In cultivation, you most often see it as a trailing plant grown in hanging pots.
) and Candle Plant (Senecio articulatus).

Does the Dolphin plant flower?

Dolphin plant info indicates the plant is a hybrid with fun leaves and a low, lightly branching form. Older stems tend to arch and droop a bit, as they hold the chubby little leaves that are adapted to store moisture. If you are lucky, they may even produce small, starry pink flowers.

Do Dolphin succulents bloom?

Once a String of Dolphins matures, small clusters of dainty and white flowers with cinnamon-like fragrance along this succulent vine may develop during the spring to early summer months. And the quality of the flowers it displays largely depends on the care it receives during its previous winter dormancy.

Alexander Ross

Alexander Ross

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