Curio stapeliiformis
Yellow pine panel + hot pink Voronoi hemisphere
A Curio stapeliiformis (Pickle Plant) mounted epiphytically inside a hot pink 3D-printed Voronoi hemisphere on a yellow-painted pine panel. Not a cactus — this is a succulent with curious pencil-like stems, mounted to showcase its sculptural form.
Native to South Africa's Eastern Cape, where it lives wedged into rocky outcrops in dry, sun-blasted soil. Unlike most of this catalog, Curio stapeliiformis isn't an epiphyte and it's not even a cactus. It's actually a kind of daisy! Part of the Asteraceae family, the Pickle Plant ditched its leaves for succulent stems that store water for months. It finally reveals its lineage when it produces bright orange-red flowers that look just like sunflowers! Mounted on a panel, it brings the South African scrubland into your apartment: sun-hungry, drought-honest, almost neon.
Pickle Plant is a deeply unserious common name for a plant that's quietly one of the toughest things you'll ever own.
