"GROWING PLANTS FOR YOU SINCE 1965"
23262354 Bella Vista Drive Vista CA 920847836
Tel : 760/7271323 * Fax : 760/7271578
23262354 Bella Vista Drive Vista CA 920847836
Tel : 760/7271323 * Fax : 760/7271578
| ABROMEITIELLA | ||
| BREVIFOLIA | A petite, tiny Bromeliad with 1" heads. It has long green flowers in winter. 3½" clumps (12-15 heads). | $6.00 |
| ADENIA | ||
| NOTE: Adenias and Adeniums can be poisonous. Be sure to wash hands after handling. Keep away from children. | ||
| GLAUCA | Plants have beautiful, bright green, caudex trunks. Blue leaves like gecko paws. Nice plants with 8"+ tall trunk, 2" base | $8.00 |
| ADENIUM | ||
| ARABICUM | This plant has blunt, velvet covered, soft leaves and a very broad, short, silver caudex trunk. The flower is a soft pink. Several branches will develop at the top of the broad trunk-caudex. Super nice. 6" tall plants with 1"+ wide caudex. | $7.00 |
| OBESUM Normal form | Super nice plants with big red to pink flowers. Keep it a bit dry in winter. These were trimmed when very young so they are stout, multibranched plants. 8"-10" tall with apx. 1½"-2" base caudex. | $8.00 |
| ADROMISCHUS | ||
| CRISTATUS | Fat, velvet covered leaves look like triangular pillows with a wide undulating edge. Offsetting plants. 3"+. | $3.00 |
| MACULATUS | Fat, rounded silver leaves splotched with dark purple markings. Cute! 2½"-3". | $3.00 |
| MAXIMUS | This plant produces leaves up to 5" long and 2" wide. Too fragile to ship plants so we are offering unrooted leaves. Easy to root and will produce nice plants. Unrooted leaves. | $3.50 |
| AEONIUM | ||
| "ZWARTKOP" | Means "black head" referring to the black leaves that make this such a beautiful plant. Unlike A.atropurpurea it does not turn green. 6"-8" rosettes. | $4.00 |
| AGAVE | ||
| AMERICANA var. MEDIO-PICTA ALBA | Stiff grey colored leaves with bright white midstripe. Maximum size for adult is 22"-24". Not common certainly beautiful! 5"-6". LIMITED. | $7.00 |
| FERDINANDI-REGIS | (Now a variety of A. victoriae-reginae). Short leaves, wide at the base, tipped with a triangular black spine and painted with a few white lines. Not a sissy plant! 3½"-4" plants. | $4.50 |
| GEMINIFLORA | A different and very beautiful plant. Many of you have seen the adult plants near the parking area and asked for them. The symmetrical rosette consists of countless, spineless, very narrow (¼"), smooth, long leaves. Each leaf produces long, hair like, white filaments on the edges. It does not offset and is long lived. Maximum size about 27" diameter. Super nice 5 year old seed grown. 6"-7". | $6.50 |
| LEOPOLDII II | Very narrow leaves have white curling "string" edges and are decorated with white markings. Looks like a bridal bouquet! 5"-6" mature plants. | $7.50 |
| PARRASANA | A miniature form, neat and tidy, with leaves as wide as long. Seldom over 10" in diameter! Dark silver grey with tiny red teeth. Beautiful 4"-5" rosettes. | $6.00 |
| SCABRA X FERDINANDI-REGIS (F&G 3136) | (See picture C&S Jnl (U.S.) Vol. 56 (1984), p. 157). This natural hybrid (?) was collected near Matehuala, Mexico, in the 1960's. Because it grows true from seed it is now believed to be a species. It has thick, rough skinned, stiff, grey/almost green leaves, tipped with a strong jet black spine. It has an "Art Deco" appearance quite unlike other Agaves. Young 3½" plants. | $5.00 |
| TOUMEYANA | This handsome plant from Arizona stays small. It has thick white "hairs" on the edge of leaves striped with white lines. 5"-6" plants selected for good markings. | $5.00 |
| UTAHENSIS var. NEVADENSIS | One of the small growing species with dramatic very long spine tips on the adult plants. Adult spines have narrow, upright, bluish leaves and a dark brown-black tip spine 3"-4" long. These juvenile plants are still in a flattish rosette with white "teeth" and short spine tip. Add about ¼ gravel (not sand) to potting mix to keep this plant happy. Blue leaved 4" plants. | $5.00 |
| VERSCHAFFELTII "DWARF" "Shoji-Raijin" | A miniature plant, seldom more than 4" across. 2" x 2" leaves are thick and a pretty frosty green in color. Offsets freely to form a hemispherical mound of heads. Chubby 3". | $4.50 |
| VICTORIAE-REGINAE forma COMPACTA | Beautiful, compact form with shorter, broader leaves than the species and thicker, white markings. Plants propagated vegetatively from clones selected for excellent white markings. Nice plants with 4" full rosette. | $6.50 |
| VICTORIAE-REGINAE var. COMPACTA | A regular plant of this species can be 20"-24" in diameter. The compacta form has broader white "stripes" and is seldom over 8"-10" and the leaves are more tightly cupped. These plants are vegetatively produced from selected clones with extremely good, broad white markings. They are full rosettes about 8 years old and 6"-7" in diameter. | $18.50 each plus $7.50 for separate box and Priority Mail. |
| ALLUAUDIA | ||
| All members of this family are more woody than succulent. Water or you will kill them! Keep above 500F. | ||
| MONTAGNACII | The most beautiful of the genus with closely spaced silver thorns and dark, green, notched leaves. 7"-8" RC. | $11.50 |
| ALOE | ||
| The smaller Madagascar species are best for pot culture. Keep above 550F in winter. Lots of flowers if given enough water. Most of the larger species are best in the ground in frost free areas. The root systems for both are huge and require re-potting often or a big pot. We trim the brown roots back about ½ the bulk. The plant doesn't need them in a pot as only the new white roots feed it. Several good books are available to determine which grow in winter and which grow in summer. | ||
| ALBIFLORA | Propagated from material collected in Madagascar by Dr. W. Rauh. A graceful, small growing plant with long slender, dark green, speckled leaves in an upright rosette. The bell shaped flowers are white, an uncommon color for Aloes. These adult plants are full rosettes of 8"-9" leaves. | $14.00 |
| x "BLACK BEAUTY" | This interesting cross be-tween A. rauhii and A. parvula is very different and beautiful. The rough textured narrow leaves are almost black in color. Nice coral flowers. 5" diameter plants. | $6.00 |
| BREVIFOLIA | A short, fat leafed, offsetting plant. Full size about 10 inches. Pale blue/grey leaves have soft white teeth. Flower is short and coral in color. These 4"-5" plants have a few lines of variegation. | $7.00 |
| DESCOINGSII | Petite, cute, tiny plant (the smallest Aloe), 1" wide by 1" long nicely spotted brown-green leaves form tiny rosettes. Full grown at 2½". Flower is coral colored. Nice mature 2"-2½" rosettes. | $4.50 |
| DICHOTOMA | From N. Namaqualand. A true tree Aloe but grows nicely in a pot. These plants are 7" tall and 5" wide with the upright bluish leaves in 5 nice stacks. | $17.50 |
| x "DORIAN BLACK" | Super hybrid by Dick Wright. Mostly pale white-green with dark green peeking out between the tooth-like white ridges on the leaf surface and edge. Very different. Nice 4" rosettes. | $5.00 |
| "FRECKLES" cv. | This cute little plant popped up in one of our greenhouses several years ago. It has very short, very wide, very pointed leaves and a terminal case of white "freckles" all over the dark green leaf. Easy to grow. 4"-6" plants. | $4.50 |
| GARIEPENSIS | Solitary plant from Namaqualand. Bright white spots on sharply pointed leaves edged with a few reddish teeth. Flower is pure yellow.Stout 5" x 4" seed grown. | $5.00 |
| HAWORTHIOIDES | Attractive miniature with longer, more slender leaves than normal form. Lots of soft white bristle-like "teeth". 3"-4" multiheaded plants. | $4.50 |
| HUMILIS var. ECHINATA | This small plant has very short blue leaves with soft white prickles. It is a ground hugger and offsets well. The flower is short, stout and orange. Nice 3½"-4" adult plants. most offsetting. | $5.00 |
| PARVULA var. JACOBSONII | This variety is larger and bluer than our other plants of this species. It is also not fussy to grow. It is a a very light sky blue with small soft "teeth" here and there on the leaves. Maximum size 8"-10". Offsets to make a handsome cluster. 4"-5" plants. | $7.00 |
| SABAEA | Very different tree Aloe from Arabia. Pale, lime green leaves are very long and drape to almost touch ground. Flowers are orange on a branched stock. 8"+ seed grown. | $7.00 |
| WICKENSII | Low growing plant from the Transvaal. Stemless with grey/purple, sharply tapered leaves edged in tiny red teeth. Flower buds are red, but are yellow when open. 5" fan shaped seedlings. | $5.00 |
| ALOINOPSIS | ||
| SCHOONEESII | Short, fat, lightly speckled leaves form rosettes on a low, fat caudex. This "Mesemb" might be only 1" tall but it gets wider and wider and makes big clumps. These are nice plants 3" in diameter with 6 or more heads. | $4.50 |
| SPATHULATA | The little caudex has white spot covered grey-green leaves in a nice hatchet shape. It makes this little plant interesting. The deep red flowers make it beautiful. | $4.00 |
| AVONIA (formerly ANACAMPSEROS) | ||
| HERREANA | Big (for this plant) plants with 20+ branches. Not a "neat" Avonia but looks hassled. The white scales on the older branches lift up and gives it a look of disarray. The flowers are white and scented. 1½" plant. | $11.00 |
| PAPYRACEA | Largest branches of this miniature genus (¼" diameter), also the whitest scales. When grown from seed, produces branches from the top of tuber-like roots. Maximum size apx. 4"-5". Super nice very well branched 4"+ plants. | $7.00 |
| BEAUCARNEA | ||
| RECURVATA | This old time favorite is often called the "Pony Tail Palm". The slim trunk above a chubby caudex base produces a tuft of long curved green leaves. Young plants with apx. 1½" base. | $4.50 |
| STRIATA | Those of you who have seen the large specimen of this plant out back of the sales area have asked for this plant. The specimen, with its 3 foot caudex "foot" covered with brown fissured bark is impressive. These seed grown plants have a 1½"-2" base caudex and are apx. 9" tall. | $14.50 |
| BOMBAX | ||
| ELLIPTICUM | Large leaves and a green striped, caudex-like trunk. Flowers like a shaving brush. Neat! 4"-6" seedlings with apx. ¾" base. | $5.00 |
| BOWIEA | ||
| NANA | Similar to the "Pregnant Onion" but has a denser, slightly thicker vine. Bulb will dichotomize (split) into more bulbs. Seed grown. Nice 1"+ bulb. | $4.50 |
| BURSERA | ||
| Most of the woody Baja California plants don't have a growing season! They grow when water and food are available and stop when too dry or hot. This includes Pachycormus and Idrias (Fouquierias). Keep trimmed to develop trunk and improve appearance. Treat like a tree, not a succulent! | ||
| FAGAROIDES | One of the best of the "Elephant Trees". Leaves have spicy odor. | A: LARGE: Well branched, 20+ year old, seed grown plants with an apx. 2"+ wide by 8"+ tall trunk. Plant trimmed to 10"-14". Impressive. | $40.00 (plus $10.00 sep. box, Priority Mail only) |
| B: SMALL: Nice 4 year old seedlings with apx. ¾" trunk. Plant trimmed to 10". | $6.50 | |
| HINDSIANA | Fatter trunk with dark red-brown bark. Broad serrated leaves. Very nice 4 year old seedlings. 8"-10" tall, ¾" wide x 5" tall trunk. | $9.50 |
| MICROPHYLLA | Prettiest plant, with tiny fern like leaves and reddish bark. Thinner trunks but fantastic twisted caudex-like roots. 4 year old, apx. " wide trunk. Trimmed to 12". Starting caudex root. | $10.00 |
| CALIBANUS | ||
| HOOKERI | Unusual caudex with long, grass-like, blue-green leaves. | |
| A: LARGE: 11 year old plants 3"-4" caudex. Multiheaded. | $12.50 | |
| B: SMALL: 3 year old with apx. 1" base. | $5.00 | |
| CERARIA | ||
| FRUTICULOSA | The "twiggy" of the Ceraria world. Interesting, tiny in leaf, size and form. Mostly dormant in summer but sometimes not. Very well branched bushes with ¼" long x " wide leaves. Keep trimmed for shape. Nice 8"-9" BR. | $7.00 |
| CEROPEGIA | ||
| DICHOTOMA VARIEGATE | Rigid, round stems, striped in pale green and yellow. Yellow flowers. 8"-9" RC. LIMITED. | $7.50 |
| FUSCA | Stiff, upright round stems. Purple/grey when young, turning white when older. Purple flowers. 8"-10" mostly branched. RC. LIMITED. | $6.50 |
| CHORISIA | ||
| INSIGNIS | A very spiny tree of the Bombax family with big 5" yellow/white flowers. The 25 foot tree that is the mother of these plants has 3" cone shaped spines all over the trunk and branches. These seedlings have a nice apx. 1" wide by 3" caudex. Plant 8"-10" tall. | $7.50 |
| COMMIPHORA | ||
| WIGHTII | This Indian species is not well known. It has elliptical 1" leaves with a nice serrate edge and white veins. The trunk has a neat peeling bark a light honey tan color. These 5 year old seed grown plants have apx. ½" thick trunk and will be trimmed at about 10". Most are branching. LIMITED. | $12.50 |
| COTYLEDON | ||
| BUCHHOLZIANA | Unusual and beautiful form of this stout, leafless, silver stemmed, copper tipped clone. 3" branched RC. | $6.00 |
| LADISMITHENSIS VARIEGATE | Fuzzy green and yellow striped leaves. Easy to grow and beautiful. 3" branched plants. | $3.50 |
| STRIATA (RAWE 1315) | Propagated from material colleted near Doringbos, South Africa. The striated narrow stem bears very long narrow leaves. Forms clumps of slender heads. Well branched plants. | $4.50 |
| CRASSULA | ||
| ARGENTEA "PYGMAE JADE" | The red edged, bright green leaves and plant are half the size of regular "Jade". Nice 5"-6" offsetting plants. | $4.00 |
| AUSENSIS var. TITANOPSIS | For a miniature plant, this one is pretty dramatic. It looks more like a Titanopsis than a Crassula. The long, round, slightly flat leaves are rough textured and covered with white speckles. The leaves are tightly packed and the frosty-green skin flushes red. These 2½"-3" clumps have 5+ heads. | $8.00 |
| COLUMNELLA | Super neat plant. ½" stems are light green and velvet covered. Offsets to make nice clump. 2½"-3" branched plants. | $3.50 |
| GOLLUM "DWARF" | Smaller than normal form of this strange monstrose plant. Leaves are cupped at the tip. Great red color when grown in enough light. Nice 6" plants. | $3.50 |
| "MOONGLOW" cv. | Square stack of very fat, silver grey leaves. 3". | $3.50 |
| PERFORATA VARIEGATE | Upright stems stacked with white and green leaves. Flushes red in good light. 3" well branched. | $3.50 |
| "POLLY'S PINK" cv. | Bright green, densely stacked, rough surfaced leaves. Produces big pom-pom of pink flowers. 2"+ offsetting. | $3.50 |
| "TOM THUMB" VARIEGATE cv. | This little plant really fits the word "cute". The ½" pink and white leaves are stacked like flat beads. 3" well branched plants. | $3.50 |
| DIDIEREA | ||
| TROLLII | Wonderful Madagascan plant with leaves and spines the same length. Forms tree in habitat but can be trimmed to keep in a pot. 7"+ rooted cuttings. | $8.50 |
| CYPHOSTEMMA | ||
| CIRRHOSA | Interesting member of the grape family. It forms a wild caudex trunk and twisted roots. The trunk is palomino/brown and the thick, grape-like leaves are a very shiny green. Don't eat the grape-like fruit, it is very high in tannic acid. These plants are 6"-8" tall with an approximately 1"+ base on the trunk. | $12.75 |
| DIOSCOREA | ||
| ELEPHANTIPES | Grown from our seed, these 7-8 year old plants have a 2½"-3" caudex and the typical branched vine with small heart shaped leaves. Warning! Be sure you plant the caudex at least ½" into the soil. The new roots come out of the side of the plant. These are still young plants and would appreciate a gravel cover over the caudex for a few years. Water well once a week when in vine. Water ¼ amount once a week if/when plant goes dormant. LIMITED. | $18.50 |
| DRIMIA | ||
| HAWORTHIOIDES | A fabulous lily-like species with scaled lily-type bulb. Summer dormant. Removed scales will root and grow new plants. Leaves and flower spike simulate a Haworthia. 2"-3" multiscaled bulbs. | $4.50 |
| DUDLEYA | ||
| ATTENUATA var. ORCUTTII | Native to Southern California, this plant has lots of round, silver grey fingers in a tight rosette. 3" RC. | $4.00 |
| GREENI "WHITE SPRITE" | Each head of this charming miniature is about 2" across with tiny snow white leaves. Forms very neat small plants. Multiheaded 2½"-3" plants. | $4.50 |
| DYCKIA | ||
| CHORISTAMINEA | Dense rosettes of narrow, toothy, silver green leaves. Flowers are a surprising bright, chrome yellow. Very nice 6"+ plants. | $7.50 |
| ECHEVERIA | ||
| AGAVOIDES "Red Edge" | Thick, lime-pale-green, triangular, red edged leaves form a large rosette. 3½"-4". | $6.00 |
| "BLACK PRINCE" cv. | Low growing plant with rosettes of sharply pointed, fat, pruple/black leaves. Different. 3"-4" plants. | $4.50 |
| "TOPSY TURVY" cv. | Pale powder blue leaves curl, twist and turn upward. Small growing. Neat 4"-5" plants. | $5.00 |
| ERYTHRINA | ||
| HUMEANA var. "RAJA" | Many of you have seen this "Coral Tree" with its 3 foot x 2 foot caudex here at the nursery. The caudex grows fast and the plant will produce dark red flowers when very young. These 4 year old seedlings have an 1"+ wide caudex. | $11.00 |
| EULOPHIA | ||
| These are terrestrial ORCHIDS. You grow them like an Aloe or an Euphorbia. They are from the grasslands of Kenya and look best if given a little shade. Requires a large pot if you want to see flowers. Never let them get dry and keep above 500F. | ||
| PANICULATA (Oecgoclades calcarata) | Short, wide, pleated, shiny green pseudobulbs. 12"-15" narrow, black-green leaves edged with white spots. 3-5 foot flower stalk with many 2" chartreuse and purple flowers. One pseudobulb. | $22.00 |
| PETERSII | Pseudobulb is topped with very stiff 6"-7" leaves. Flower stalk is 5-7 feet tall, branched and covered with hundreds of 1½" orchid flowers. Really neat! | |
| TWO (OR MORE) PSUEDOBULBS:.4"-5" tall, topped with rigid 6"-7" leaves. Plants 12"-14" tall. | $24.00 plus $2.00 | |
| ONE PSEUDOBULB: | $12.50 | |
| EUPHORBIA | ||
| This group of plants is from almost anywhere you want to name. The culture varies a lot and you should do a little reading to determine what each species prefers. The Euphorbia Journal (all 11 volumes) by Strawberry Press is the best place to start. | ||
| AERUGINOSA MINOR | Four angled stems in a lovely blue color with bright copper colored spine shields. 6" well branched. | $5.00 |
| AMMAK VARIEGATE | Exciting plant. The 4"-5" diameter stem is shaded ivory yellow with pale green. The four deep wavy ribs are edged with small spines. 8"-10". | $12.50 |
| ANGUSTIFLORA | Square bluish/green stems with strong tubercles. Will form a cone shaped trunk when older. 6"-8" RC. | $4.00 |
| ATROPURPUREA | Handsome plant from the Can-ary Islands. The thick stalk is topped with 2"-3" lanceolate bluish leaves. The large flower umble is a beautiful dark maroon color. 6"-8" plants. Summer dormant. | $5.50 |
| BAIOENSIS | Blue body with small spines in neat rows. Branches from base like a fountain. Easy to grow. Nice rooted cuts. 5"-6". | $4.50 |
| BALLYI (ex BALLY F/C Erigavo, Somalia) | This plant is vegetatively produced from cutting received from Peter Bally when he lived in what was once Rhodesia. (See picture C&S Jnl. (U.S.) Vol. 48 (1976), p. 284). It is very slow to grow so don't push it. The 5-7 angled, apx. 1", plant stems grow in constricted segments. It has a continuous heavy spine shield up the rib with short paired spines. In time, it forms a small bush. Very interesting plant. 5"-6" branched. | $6.50 |
| BUPLEURIFOLIA | Brown barrel shaped, pinecone look alike trunk produces spray of 6" bright green leaves. Different and interesting. 2"-2½" trunk. | $7.50 |
| CAP-SAINTMARIENSIS | Elegant, selected plants. Crinkled leaves, bushy and upright. We rooted these 4 years ago. Then we trimmed them. They now have very large, interesting, caudex-like roots and are well branched at top and offsetting at bottom. You take it from here. 6"-7" branched. | $7.00 |
| CROIZATII | This rather unappreciated plant can be beautiful and interesting. After it is well rooted in just cut off the top ½ inch. This will make it bush out and stop the long-leggy look an untrimmed plant will have. The very bright green 3" leaves have a thin red edge. The stout ½" stem has interesting ½" long rose-like thorns. The flowers are weird. They can be green, yellow or pink or a petal combination of any of these colors and not necessarily two years in a row! These are strong 6" seed grown plants. | $5.75 |
| CYLINDRIFOLIA | Miniature Madagascan plant with long round, almost black leaves with a tiny furrow down the center. The stems lay nearly flat along the ground. 3" well branched. | $4.50 |
| DECARYI DECARYI | This scarce and unique large form has large crinkle edged leaves and up to 1" thick stems. Handsome 3"-4"+ well branched plants. | $5.25 |
| DECARYI var. SPIROSTICHA | Beautiful variety with flat crinkled leaves with a rolled edge and a nice spiral pattern on the trunk. Very nice big plants. 4"-5" multibranched. | $6.00 |
| FRANCOISII | This plant has so many leaf forms you could have a large collection of just this species. Usually young seedlings have a lot of red on the leaves which change to regular green when the plant matures. Nice 3"-4" RC. | $5.50 |
| GENOUDIANA | Super small plant from Madagascar. Thick branches, small, very narrow leaves and small sharp pointed green flowers in groups. Not common. Chubby, well branched. 3"-4". | $6.00 |
| GOLISIANA | Neat miniature from Sheikh Pass, Somalia. The ½" to 1" stems have erratic long-short paired spines. 3" multiheaded. Forms a neat hemispherical clump. | $4.00 |
| GREENWAYI | Wonderful blue form. It is one of the most exciting Euphorbias! The ¾" square stems bear unusual bright pink flowers. Nice 6"-7". | $4.50 |
| HORRIDA MAJOR "BLUE CLONE" | Everything is BIG on this clone. Big body, big spines and a lovely bluish color instead of the normal grey. Impressive 5" x 5" plants. | $12.50 plus $3.00 |
| HORRIDA var. MAJOR CLONE #2 | Unusual form with few erratic spines and odd washboard ridges. Dramatic! Big 4" x 4" plants. | $10.00 plus $3.00 |
| INGENS MONSTROSE | Odd, very dark green, twisted stems with contrasting white markings. 7"-8" RC. | $4.50 |
| KIBWEZENSIS CREST | Interesting crested form of this plant from Kenya. This is the wide, heavy form not the thin form normally seen. Deeply pleated and edged with small spines. Thick 5"-6". | $8.00 |
| LACTEA CREST (GREEN) | Great old favorite. White markings on a twisted and crested green body. 4"-6". | $5.50 |
| LACTEA VARIEGATE (NORMAL FORM) | Stout ghostly white stems with 3-4 angles. Branches easily. This is the plant the variegated crest came from. Nice 6"-8" rooted cuts. | $5.50 |
| LACTEA VARIEGATE CREST | Beautiful white body with a slight undercast of green. Pink growth-line. A striking, beautiful crest. Nice big 3"-4" folded crest. | $10.00 |
| LEUCODENDRON | Branched, round and spineless stems have black "polka dots". From Madagascar. 6"+ multibranched. | $4.50 |
| MAKALLENSIS | Handsome plant from Quina Tignai, Ethiopia. The 1" square stems have short white spines along the edge. Forms a many headed "cushion" in a short time. 3"+ offsetting plants. | $4.50 |
| MAMMILLARIS VARIEGATE | Very pretty white and pink columnar stems. AKA: "White Corn Cob". 3"-4" plants. | $4.00 |
| MELOFORMIS | Neat green balls with stripes and persistent flower peduncles. Apx. 2" seedlings. | $4.25 |
| MILLOTTII | From N. Madagascar. Spineless round stem topped with green leaves with a red underside. Chartreuse flowers. Very nice 3" stem. | $7.00 |
| NEOHUMBERTII | Unusual plant from Madagascar with stout stem and big bluish leaves at the top. 3"-3½" seedlings. | $5.00 |
| OBESA | Everyone's favorite. Neat globes with pattern of transverse growth lines. | |
| A: LARGE: 3½" wide x 4"-5" tall. LIMITED. | $20.00 | |
| B: MEDIUM: Clean, super fat plants. 2½". LIMITED. | $6.50 | |
| C: SMALL. 4 year old seed grown plants. 1½". | $3.50 | |
| PETRICOLA | Cute little dwarf plant from Kenya. Looks like a fountain and forms a root caudex. 4" branched. | $4.50 |
| POLYGONA cv. "SNOWFLAKE" | One of the many "white" forms of this normally green plant. The columnar body is club shaped and offsets to make a nice cluster. Nice large plants, some offsetting. 9" tall x 3" wide. | $11.50 (plus $2.00 surcharge) |
| RICHARDSIAE var. RICHARDSIAE | Interesting small plant from Malawi with ¼" stems and ½" leaves and beautiful red-purple flowers. 4"-5" branched. | $4.50 |
| STELLAESPINA | Neat "star"-like spines. Tessalate pattern on body. 2½" to 3". | $4.00 |
| SUZANNAE | Probably the daintiest looking Euphorbia. No spines, just a fat, very green ball covered with lots of short pointed tubercles. Lots of yellow flowers. Clean, pretty 2"+ seed grown. | $5.00 |
| FENESTRARIA | ||
| "BABY TOES" | Attractive, like clusters of little toes. The ends have "windows" which let light inside the leaf to the food making cells. White or yellow flowers. Nice 2"+ clumps. | $3.00 |
| FICUS | ||
| PETIOLARIS | This succulent member of the fig family has become hard to find. The spade shaped leaves have nice red veins. The caudex trunk forms rather fast if the plant is given enough root room. Trim the central stem to make it branch. Cute, small, apx. 4" seedlings with apx. 1" wide caudex. | $6.50 |
| FOCKEA | ||
| ANGUSTIFOLIA | Unusual and pretty plant with 2" long by ¼" wide lance shaped leaves and a smooth caudex. Nice seed grown with caudex. Apx. 1" wide. | $6.50 |
| CRISPA | The name refers to the curled, wavy edges on the pointed leaves. The older the plant and the more light, the more curl to the leaves. Makes a big warty caudex. Seed grown plants. | |
| A: LARGE. Nine year old plants with fat, sassy caudex apx. 2½" to 3" wide x 5"-7" long. LIMITED. | $19.50 | |
| B: SMALL. Plants with 1" wide x 3" long caudex. | $4.50 | |
| EDULIS | Excellent seed grown plants with a rough. knobby caudex, vining branches and broad, flat, rounded leaves. | |
| A: LARGE: Super good plants with BIG root-caudex. 2½"-3½" wide x 6"-7" long. | $18.25 | |
| B: SMALL: Young seedlings. Apx. 1" wide caudex. | $4.00 | |
| TUGALENSIS- See PENTOPENTIA NATALENSIS | ||
| FOUQUIERIA | ||
| COLUMNARIS "BAJA BOOJUM" | It has been renamed from Idria. To see the thousands of these "upside down" carrots in Baja California is a sight not easily forgotten. Nice seedlings. 3" tall with apx. ½" wide trunk. | $7.50 |
| FASCICULATA | Five year old seedlings from our own plants. This rare and hard to find plant has a very large bottle shaped caudex with corky grey bark broken by bright green bark. The leaves are rounded on the tip, the flowers are white. These seedlings have trunks ¾" to 1" wide. The plants will be trimmed at 6"-8", most are branched. LIMITED. | $14.00 |
| MACDOUGALII | This interesting plant forms a thick trunk from which many thinner branches grow. It actually looks like a tree when full grown. The bronze-colored bark peels off in layers. The large flower clusters are bright red. Nice 5"-6" seed grown plants. | $5.50 |
| GASTERALOE | ||
| "GREEN ICE" | Thick, frosty-pale-ice green, triangular leaves have an overlay of irregular stripes and specks of dark green. The flower is frosty-orange with a green and yellow tip. A terrific plant, as bold in shape as it is subtle in its colors. Robust, neat with fat leaves. Slow to grow. Semi-fan 4"-5". | $5.50 |
| GASTERIA | ||
| This genus is easy to grow but not so easy to grow clean. Black spots seem to be its biggest problem. As this plant grows in mineral rich soils we tried adding minerals to its soil mix. To a large extent this has solved the problem. These plants do almost all their growing from Fall to Spring. Light shading and less water (but no dry pot) works well in Summer. A very good book for excellent information and pictures is "Gasterias of South Africa" by E. J. van Jaarsvild. | ||
| ARMSTRONGII | True plant produced by offset from F/C plants, not hybrid seedlings. Certainly the nicest, and also the slowest Gasteria in the World! Super nice 10 year old plants. 3"-3½" fans 1½" wide leaves. | $8.00 |
| BICOLOR | Very wide, thick leaves with handsome irregular white spots. Nice 3"-3½" offsetting plants. | $4.50 |
| ELLAPHIAE | From near the Kouga Dam region in eastern Cape Province, Africa, this plant grows on shady, sheer, rocky slopes. When adult, this small plant has thick, triangular leaves, rough with white tubercles and reaches about 7" in diameter. These 5"-6" plants are beginning to spiral. Very interesting. Seed grown. 5"-6". | $7.50 |
| GLOMERATA | Beautiful monocolored, icy-pale-green leaves with a textured surface. Name means compact. Leaves are about as long as wide. This plant grows in the shade on rocky cliffs near Kongadan, Cape Province, South Africa. Young 3" plants. | $6.00 |
| LILIPUTANA | The smallest and probably the cutest Gasteria. Full size about 4". Leaves are ½" wide and about 2" long. Dark black/green with lots of white spots. Flower is soft coral color. 2½"-3" offsetting plants. | $3.50 |
| "MARBLE" cv. | Very nice frosty variegation with a few dark green lines. The plant gets to about 8" in dia-meter. Handsome 3", some offsetting. | $4.00 |
| VLOKII | Rare plant with powder-grey over green color and leaves covered with rough, short white tubercles. Grows in grass and moss in Cape Prov., South Africa. Impressive 4"-6" "fans" with 1"+ wide leaves. May have some culture spots. | $6.50 |
| GERRARDANTHUS | ||
| MACRORHIZUS | A wild cucurbit plant with ivy like leaves on a pretty vine. Grows a big, green, flat caudex if grown in a large pot. 3 year seed grown with caudex 3"-3½". | $13.50 |
| HAWORTHIA | ||
| Great group of mostly easy to grow plants. Stays small, grows mostly in fall to spring, dormant in summer so give some shade and light watering to keep turgid. There are about 5 books available. There are many differences in the authors' opinions. Pilbeam's book has the best pictures and the clearest explanations about the differences. | ||
| CHLORACANTHA var. SUBGLAUCA | Super mini-form. F/C Great Brak, South Africa. Small, very pointed leaves are purple with dark spine-like bristles. Plants ½ the size of normal form. 2½". | $3.50 |
| "CHOCOLATE" cv. | A retusa cultivar with chubby reflexed leaves. The faces are rough with dots of various colors. The plant is a yummy chocolate brown color. Nice 3½" plants. | $6.50 |
| COOPERI | Pale green, round chubby leaves with a hair at the center point. Nice 3" plants. | $4.50 |
| CYMBIFORMIS VARIEGATE | Very pretty plant with light green leaves splotched with white marks. No two are alike. 3". | $3.50 |
| FASCIATA VARIEGATE | Not your normal variegate. The leaves are sharply pointed and banded with white "beads". The leaves are pale green, pale yellow and even may have some white ones. Interesting 3" plants. | $4.50 |
| GLAUCA | Tall growing plant. Beautiful windowless blue leaves overlap so it looks like a blue fox tail. 3"-4" offsetting. | $4.00 |
| "HAYASHI" cv. | This beautiful plants looks like it is carved from waxy black soap! Very, very smooth, sharply pointed leaves form a "fountain" shaped plant. Full grown at about 6" diameter. Very nice 4" rosettes. | $10.00 |
| KOELMANIORUM | Selected clone with long, pointed leaves that are bronze-burgundy in color. The leaf surface is covered with various sized burgundy "beads". Propagated from plants F/C in the Groblersdal District in the Transvaal. Super beautiful 3". | $7.50 |
| "LITTLE CIRCLES" cv. | Interesting form of H. pumila with circles instead of dots on the leaves. Also called "Little Donuts". Slow to grow but worth the wait! Chunky 3½" x 3½" rosettes. | $5.00 |
| LUTEO-ROSEA | Very neat compact plant. Heads seldom over 1½" in diameter. Pointed leaves bristle with soft, white teeth. Grows fast. 2½" plants. | $3.50 |
| "MANTELII" cv. | Excellent hybrid of H. truncata and H. cuspidata. Very dark, very slow, very short and stout. Inward curving leaves have a rough face edged with short teeth. 2½". | $4.50 |
| MAUGHANI X TURGIDA | Neat hybrid with rhomboid leaf tips. Just what you would expect from the union of these two! Nice 2½"-3" plants. | $3.50 |
| MIRABILIS var. RUBRODENTATA | (Original plant collected by J. W. Dodson #583). Distinct form with very long narrow leaves, clear "windows" with very few lines. "Teeth" will turn red in good light. 2½"-3". | $4.50 |
| RETUSA ACUMINATA VARIEGATE "WHITE GHOST" | Leaves are pale green with white variegation. Whiter near the center than the tip. Very handsome! Nice 3". | $4.00 |
| SUBMACULATA X ALOE?? | Don't know what mixed with what in this plant, but it came out fine indeed. The sharply pointed leaves are dark, short, thick and stubby, with an edge of tiny, very white teeth. Other very white teeth are scattered over the leaf. Really nice 3" plants. | $4.00 |
| TENERA VARIEGATE | Miniature plant with heads seldom over 2" in diameter. Very nice white and green variegation on the tiny, densely packed leaves. Apx. 2"-3", most offsetting. | $4.50 |
| TRUNCATA fma. CRASSA | This is the bold, large, dark, thick leaved form everyone finds exciting. The BEST form of truncata with leaves about 1½" wide in "fans" apx. 4" across. Super! | $11.50 |
| TRUNCATA cf. "LIME GREEN" | Unusual very light, lime green plant with rough face. Just glows as if it has an interior light. Makes a 4" fan with 1" wide leaves. 3"-3½"+ fans, some offsetting. | $5.50 |
| TRUNCATA hybrid "SIZUNAMI" | Very interesting plant with a very rough, faceted face and dark color. 2½"-3" offsetting. | $4.50 |
| VENOSA ssp. TESSELATA "NEAT" | Bigger growing, better "teeth" and brighter face lines than normal form. Slow to grow but over 4" across when full grown. Big, beautiful 3" plants. | $6.50 |
| WHITESLOANIANA | (Combined into H. magnifica fma. maraisii). This form is so different and robust we use the old name. Dark, small headed, slow growing plant. Very pretty 2½" offsetting. | $4.00 |
| XIPHIOPHYLLA | Easy to grow plant with long, soft, white teeth along edge of leaf. Apx. 3". | $3.50 |
| HOYA | ||
| AUSTRALIS ssp. ORAMICOLA | A very rare and unusual xerophytic plant from W. Australia. Pale green leaves measure 3" long. 1½" wide and will become ½" thick. Beautiful white flowers. Big 8"-10" RC. | $10.00 |
| LOYCEANDREWSIANA | (Formerly listed as H. diversifolia). Rare plant from the lowland forests of coastal Malagasia and New Guinea. The huge mature leaves look like 6" red-edged, green pancakes hanging on a vine. Keep warm, above 50oF. (Limit 2 per order). Nice 8"-10" RC. LIMITED. | $12.50 |
| IPOMOEA | ||
| PLATENSE | Unusual caudex forming plant with lavender-pink "Morning Glory" type flowers on a reddish vine with palmate leaves. The caudex-root branches and twists. | |
| A: LARGE: Very interesting twisted caudex 2" wide x 5"-6" long. | $17.00 | |
| B: SMALL: ½" wide x 2"-3" long. | $6.00 | |
| JATROPHA | ||
| CAPENSIS | This handsome African plant has a swollen trunk and soft green, lance-like leaves. Seed grown with 1"+ wide trunk. Well branched 8 year old plants. Trimmed to 10". LIMITED. | $10.00 |
| McVAUGHEY | Beautiful species from Mexico with a thick trunk. Soft furry leaves, bunches of furry white flowers. The Best! 6"+ seed grown. | $5.00 |
| MULTIFIDA | Forms interesting many branched bush with strange red flowers. 4" leaves are so deeply cut they look like green lace. 7"-8" seedings. | $4.50 |
| KALANCHOE | ||
| cv. "REALLY RED RED" | Round cerrated leaves turn red in winter. Very red-red flowers in bunches. 3" branches. | $2.50 |
| KALANCHOE TOMENTOSA CULTIVARS | ||
| Four different color cultivars from Madagascar, originally collected by Prof. Rauh. The lance shaped leaves are covered with a fuzz-like fur. | ||
| "CHOCOLATE SOLDIER" cv. | Hershey chocolate brown with black markings on leaf. | $4.50 |
| "GINGER" cv. | Pale grey with red/black markings on leaf. | $4.00 |
| "GOLDEN GIRL" cv. | Gold with black markings on leaf. | $5.00 |
| "SUPER FUZZY" cv. | Long silver-grey "fur". Twice the size of normal form. | $5.00 |
| KEDROSTRIS | ||
| AFRICANA | Small plants of this caudex forming African plant. Small (1") deeply cut leaves and yellow flowers. Apx. 2½"-3" caudex. | $10.50 |
| MESTOKLEMA | ||
| ARBORIFORME | This "Mesemb" develops a gnarled caudex with red bark. Keep trimmed for best look. Seed grown with good caudex root. Trimmed to 8". LIMITED. | $6.50 |
| NANATHUS | ||
| SPATHULATA | Small, fat, triangular leaves sprinkled with tiny white dots. Nice stem caudex. Multiheaded plants with starting caudex. Apx. 2½". | $4.00 |
| NEOALSOMITRA | ||
| SARCOPHYLLA | A Cucurbet from Burma. Lance shaped brown-green leaves in threes along stem of vine. Produces big clusters of small, bright-straw colored flowers. 3 year old starting caudex. | $6.00 |
| OPERCULACARIA | ||
| DECARYI | Watch for these in a Wish Letter later this year. | |
| OXALIS | ||
| LATIFOLIA | Super beautiful deep purple/red leaves in the usual "clover" pattern but up to 1½" across. Yummy lavender/pink flowers. Will not spread. Replant small (½") bulbs in October. Large multibulbed plants. | $4.50 |
| RUBRA | Read on! I wish this plant would seed all over. It grows from an above ground caudex that looks like a stack of shaggy marbles. Soft green, clover-like leaves and bright pink flowers. Winter grower. If/when it goes dormant give plant some shade. Neat plants. | $5.00 |
| PACHYCORMUS | ||
| DISCOLOR | A marvelous "Elephant Tree" from Baja California. Makes a very nice trunk-caudex with Bonsai-like branching. 5 year old seed grown with apx. ¾"-1" caudex-base. Trimmed to 8"-9". LIMITED | $14.50 |
| PACHYPHYTUM | ||
| cv. "DEEP RED" | Dark red during winter then a nice pink/ red the rest of the year. Fat, flat leaves on a stem. 3" plants. | $2.75 |
| PACHYPODIUM | ||
| These plants grow stout and fat if the soil is NOT rich and you don't use fertilizer. Extra grit (small gravel) mixed in the soil helps the excess water drain out faster. If underpotted when young will also produce thicker, fatter stems. Water well when in leaf or flower, a little less when (and if) they are dormant. Lightly squeeze body with fingers if soft, not enough water. Should be firm all year long. Keep above 500F. | ||
| BARONII var. BARONII | One of the few red flowered Pachypodiums. Dark brown stem topped with large, textured, dark green leaves. 6"-7" seed grown. | $5.50 |
| BISPINOSUM | True species with bell shaped, pink petaled flower. 3 year old seedlings with 1" wide caudex. | $6.00 |
| GEAYI | Colorful, narrow, dark green leaves with a pink midstripe. Super nice 8" tall x 2" wide plants. | $6.50 |
| LAMEREI | Narrower leaves than the variety. Lots of white flowers. Easy to grow. 4"-6" plants. | $4.00 |
| LAMEREI var. RAMOSUM | When this plant gets older the leaves will be wider, longer and thicker, with a neat soft "felt" on the back, than the normal species. The bunches of 3" snow white flowers have a beautiful perfume too. Will flower easily in a pot. Neat 6" seedlings. | $6.00 |
| LEALII SAUNDERSII | Thick caudex-like silver trunk and lots of pretty white flowers. | |
| A: MEDIUM: 8"-10"+, branched. | $8.00 | |
| B: SMALL: 5" chubby seedlings. | $4.50 | |
| NAMAQUANUM | Endangered in the wild but we produce seedlings from our plants. This really is the most dramatic of the genus. Long curled velvet leaves top a plump body with 1"-1½" gold spines. Chubby 1½" tall x 1" wide plants. | $6.50 |
| ROSULATUM var. ROSULATUM | Fast and easy to grow. This plant offsets young and produces prolific and dramatic bunches of yellow flowers. 4"-6" neat seedlings. | $5.50 |
| SOFIENSE | This is a fairly new and hard to find plant. Our adult plant set seed three years ago so we have a few for you. The young plants are similar to P. lamerei BUT are very different as they grow up. They form a short barrel-like stem about 2 feet tall then flower and branch. The flowers are in large bunches with slightly twisted white petals with a faint purple edge. The wonderful perfume will amaze you! Seed grown 4" tall body, 1"+ wide. | $8.50 |
| PELARGONIUM | ||
| Easy to grow if "bush" type, takes a little practice if underground tuber type. Winter grower but will grow all year long if watered. Protect from heat in summer and cold in winter. | ||
| CARNOSUM | Super nice deep cut leaves, green, edged with silver-white. Nice plump, RC. | $4.50 |
| CERATOPHYLLUM | Small growing with very pinnate, cylindrical leaves. Thick stems branch well. White flowers. From lower Namibia. 5" branched. LIMITED. | $6.50 |
| TRISTE | This geophyte is an extreme form with par-ticularly excellent leaves. The caudex will produce very furry, carrot-like leaves. They will die back during the summer dormant period. (So if you order during dormant time you will receive only a leafless tuber. Plant about ¼" from top of soil.) Very strange flowers with yellow edges around purple/black center. Very pretty plant! | $10.00 |
| sp. (FKH 16881) | Frank Horwood collected this near Steinkope, South Africa. It grows from strange potato-like tubers and soon produces a stem with very pretty, red flushed, fuzzy leaves. Flowers are a pretty lilac-pink with red spots on upper petals. Check soil carefully for new tubers when re-potting. Nice plants with tuber. | $8.00 |
| PENTOPENTIA | ||
| NATALENSIS | (aka: Fockea tugelensis, aka: Tacazzea natalensis and who knows what more changes to come??) - A rare, interesting and slow growing Asclepiad with a round, rough, red barked caudex and a red vine with shiny green leaves with red undersides. Pretty too! Seed grown plants with 1"-1½" wide caudex. | $5.50 |
| PORTULACARIA | ||
| AFRA VARIEGATE | This gaudy colored plant has deep red stems and cream and green variegated leaves. Procumbant form, easy to grow. Good for Bonsai. 6"-8" well branched. | $4.00 |
| RAPHIONACME | ||
| FLANAGANII | This Asclepiad forms a smooth caudex which produces a brown woody vine with 4" velvet soft leaves. Nice chubby root caudex apx. 2½" by 3"-4" long. | $7.50 |
| RAUHIA | ||
| PERUVIANA | Seed from plants collected by Rauh (#24223) in Pucairia, Peru. The bulb-caudex produces a pair of thick, tongue like leaves. When mature these leaves are 6" wide and 12" long. A tall stem with a umbel of 3" long, blue-green flowers will appear after the winter dormant period. Nice seed grown with apx. 6" leaves and 1"-1"+ bulb. | $8.50 |
| SANSEVIERIA | ||
| Very satisfying plant to grow. As a rule of thumb if you can bend tip of leaf easily it likes more shade. If tip is stiff it likes more light. Always looks better if not in full sun. Dormant from September to April or May. Water well when growing, about ¼ the amount when dormant. Great house plant. | ||
| "BANTEL'S SENSATION" | Long, narrow leaves, grey-green with many bright, white stripes. Nice plants. | $6.00 |
| CANALICULATA | Stiff, curved, round, single leaf per plant. Shallow channel. Very slow to grow. From Madagascar. Apx. 10". | $7.50 |
| CANALICULATA DWARF | This plant from Madagascar is half the size of the regular plant in both length and diameter. It has only one, single, cylindrical leaf per plant but offsets well. | $7.50 |
| "FROSTY SPEARS" cv. | This beauty is well illustrated on the cover of this Wish Book. The adult plant will spiral like a helix when it gets older. Nice 6"-7" plants. | $14.50 |
| "GRAY LADY" GC81032 | Lovely gray color, banded gray in the center. Multiheaded plants. | $7.50 |
| KIRKII var. KIRKII Superclone #81-071 | This most amazing of all Sansevierias comes from Kenya-Uganda. Mature plants have a very thick leaf three inches wide and as much as two inches thick! The leaves can grow to over three feet long. | |
| A: LARGE. 10"-14" plants with thick adult leaf. | $17.00 | |
| B: SMALL. 7" juvenile plants. | $6.50 | |
| PATENS | Thick, ridged leaves form a "fan" of curved graceful leaves. We think it is one of the most beautiful of all the genus! Plants 6"-7" "fans". | $10.00 |
| SCABRAFOLIA | Slow growing, rather rare species. Very dark green rough leaves edged in white. Forms a fountain-like rosette but seldom over 10" in diameter. 3"-4" diameter, 5 year old seedlings. | $11.50 |
| SCHWEINFURTHII GC78210 | Leaves are very dark green and tapered round. The sculptured form is beautiful. The plant grows in an "S" shape rather than the normal rosette. Super 16"-18" plants. LIMITED. | $20.00 |
| SINGULARIS GC78124 | A plant that varies with age. It has flat, short, thick, dark leaves when young. Slowly the leaves lengthen and become thinner with a narrow channel. Finally the leaves are round with a tiny channel. Semi-adult BR. | $5.00 |
| sp. GC81069 "BASEBALL BAT" | (Now S. hallii from Zimbabwe). There is no known Sansevieria like it. A plant as one or two broad channeled leaves, ridged on the face. The channel is the same width as the leaf! The adult leaf s 2"+ wide, up to 12" long and 1"+ thick!!! And it is as hard as a rock! We fondly call it the "Baseball Bat". This plant elongs in every collection. Nice plants with one or two 6"-8" leaves. | $10.00 |
| sp. FKH 432 (Now S. francisii) | From Garsen, Kenya. Forms 5 vertical rows of overlapping round, very pointed leaves hen adult. An odd form somewhat like a raccoon tail. 4"-6" plants. | $7.00 |
| sp. LAV. 23154 | Collected by Lavranos north of Mog on coast road to Warshek, Somalia. This plant has sharply pointed eflexed leaves tightly stacked in a fan. Very sharp spine tip! The leaves are deeply channeled with a thin red and white dge. It very slowly grows into a spiral "fan" about 18" tall and 14" across. 4"-5" fan. | $12.50 |
| sp. LOBAL, KENYA | Propagated from material found near Lake Baringo, Lobal, Kenya. Deep green leaves form fountain-like rosette. 6"-8" rosettes. LIMITED. | $12.50 |
| sp. MASON/CONGO GC78133 | Fabulous mottled bluish color. Can make leaves 9" wide, 30" high! Nice plant 8"-10". | $7.50 |
| SARCOCAULON | ||
| HERRERAE | This genus is somewhat hard to find, especially as seed grown plants. From Namibia, it stays small and a leaf rib becomes a long spine on the thick trunk. The flower is large, white, and looks like it is made of crepe paper. These plants are 2½" x 2½" with very fuzzy green leaves. For the first few years treat as a young plant and water regularly (weekly). Then when older slightly reduce water in summer dormant period. | $9.50 |
| SEDUM | ||
| ADOLPHII | Colorful, very yellow, tear drop shaped leaves stand upright along a stout stem. 3" plants. | $2.50 |
| FURFURACEUS | Small, slow growing and interesting plant from the pine forest in San Luis Potosi, Mexico. The thick, lateral stems bear short branches of dense, fat, purplish ¼" leaves flecked with white wax. Star shaped pink flower. Can be grown as a hanging plant or trained into a Bonsai shape. Chunky 6" well branched plants. | $4.50 |
| SEMPERVIVUM | ||
| ARACHNOIDEUM | Pretty plant, stays small. Tight rosettes of purple/green leaves are topped with a heavy, white "spiderweb". 2"-2½" plants. | $4.00 |
| SENECIO | ||
| FULLERI | A species everyone seems to want. The name was changed to Kleinia saginata. It has odd spider-like markings on a round body and bold orange flowers. Apx. 3". | $5.50 |
| HAWORTHII "Cass Form" | This form is bigger, whiter and more dramatic than the normal form. The felted leaves have a small ridge on each side instead of being round. It is handsome! 4"-6". | $4.50 |
| KLEINIIFORMIS | Upright blue waxy leaves along a stiff stem. The odd leaves are 2½"-3" long, very narrow at the base and fork into 3-5 points at the wide tip. Weird but neat. 4" offsetting plants. | $3.50 |
| SCAPOSUS | Silvery cylinders in dainty rosettes. A very lovely species. 3"+ rosettes. | $3.50 |
| SCAPOSUS var. CAULESCENS | Silver cylindrical leaves are flattened and cupped at tip. Looks like a rosette of silver spoons. 4"+ plants. | $4.50 |
| SESAMOTHAMNUS | ||
| LUGARDI | From Namibia, an adult plant of this species produces a fat caudex-trunk 6 feet in diameter. The branches on the caudex are thick and thorny with small frosty grey-green leaves. The amazing 2" flower is white and has a 5"-6" "spur". Trim branches for best look. 10" to 12" plants with 4" tall x ¾"-1" wide trunks. | $13.50 |
| SINNINGIA | ||
| TUBIFLORA | Strange plant with irregularly shaped "biscuit" like caudex. Stiff stem has lovely 1" x 4" soft, furry leaves. The many tube shaped flowers are white. Nice 1½"-2" caudex. | $7.50 |
| TITANOPSIS | ||
| CALCAREA "BLUE" | This plant has the pebbled triangular leaf tips that flush purple but the leaves are more bluish than the regular green form. These are 3" plants with three or more heads. Very pretty! | $5.50 |
| TRICHODIADEMA | ||
| BULBOSUM | These plants with their pink flowers, tiny leaves, and big caudex root is always a favorite. The caudex on this 4 year old plant is apx. 1½" wide. Very nice. | $6.50 |
| TROCHOMERIA | ||
| DEBILIS | This member of the Cucumber family has a smooth, twisted caudex and lace like leaves on a clambering vine. Yellow-orange fruit. Neat 4 year old plants with 2"+ wide. apx. 3"+ tall caudex. | $9.00 |
| UNCARINA | ||
| ROEOSLIANA | This unusual plant from Madagascar has an elongate caudex root, big velvet 3" leaves and "snapdragon"-like yellow flowers almost all the time. Really nice and easy to keep small by trimming. Good drainage required in soil mix. These 3 year old seedlings have a 1"+ root-caudex and are 6" tall. | $8.50 |
| YUCCA | ||
| This handsome and decorative group of plants is generally unappreciated. They do make beautiful pot plants for many years (8-15) depending on species. Most will grow into shaggy trunked trees with a caudex-like base plate when turned loose in the ground. All of the species below are frost hardy to 100F, are BLUE leaved and like well drained soil-mix and medium to light watering AFTER the roots are well established. These plants produce lots of large, fat roots (Part of the water storage system), so give them plenty of pot room. They produce large stalks of white flowers from May to July when mature. | ||
| THOMPSONIANA | Uncommon. Very thin, sky blue leaves. 8" tall. Nice rosettes. | $8.00 |
| TORREYI | From Chihuchuan Desert. Beautiful 1½" wide, sky blue leaves, 12"-14" long. Handsome. | $8.00 |
| WHIPPLEI (blue form) | From So. California to Baja California. Stiff, short, broad based, pointed leaves. Usually green but these are a rarer blue form. Neat 6"-7" plants with 10+ leaves. | $8.50 |
| ZAMIA | ||
| ZAMIIFOLIA | Nice small growing cycad. Great as a pot plant and nice in the garden. The 12" "feather" leaf stems grow from the top of the caudex trunk and hold ranks of blunt stiff green leaflets. These seed grown plants have an 1"+ base and are 6"-8" tall. LIMITED. | $12.50 |
