My entry for the Shadowhunters #153 contest.

Yesterday it rained a little, which has not happened for about two months. My plants are happy and their leaves are wet, today there is much more beauty in my garden. Of course I take the opportunity to take photos of all the wet plants and flowers. There are many, because the rain encourages them to break the small flower buds.

Look at my succulent, at all of its branches and this great shadow that it produces, I can’t miss it. It makes infinite shapes, some of them look like children holding hands.

This succulent is called Graptoveria Fenix, It has thick stems like all succulents, with fleshy leaves arranged in a rosette shape, it’s like a flower but there are multiple overlapping leaves. As its leaves have been exposed to the sun, which are normally gray, now they take various colors as you can see, like red, pink, yellow, green and gray.

They are cacti that don’t grow in height, since they don’t exceed more than 40 cm, but they do expand as new rosette formations proliferate on their stems.

If this succulent is not exposed to a good amount of sun light, the leaves open and do not arrange themselves in rosettes. The leaves will grow separate from each other and the coloration of their leaves will only be gray, and you won’t get new rosette extensions. The best thing is to let it receive a good amount of solar rays, careful that these rays don’t hit it fully because the plant can and will burn under the direct sun.

Excessive moisture rots its roots and therefore its stems and the entire plant.
Enjoy the shadows that come out with all of this splendid sun after the rain.

This is my entry to weekly contest of shadowhunters, #153 hosted by @melinda010100, with the participation of the judge @annephilbrick and the collaboration of @nelinoeva.

All photos are of my property taken with my Blu phone.

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