THE BEAUTY

This TESTUDINARIA ELEPHANTIPES is 5 years old. Out of all my testudinarias she is the most beautiful one. This is because of the very beautiful grown "warts" or "tubercles" or "cork" that she has developed.

As you might see she is not growing. She stands like this from October until around June or July. Then she might develop again her sprouts and grow.

This is a close up photograph of the growing point. The brown triangular "thing" in the middle of the picture will develop into the growing shoots when the growing season starts.

This "cork" or "tubercle" or "wart" is made of corky substances and has - as you might know it from wood - seasonly or yearly growing patterns.