Product Code: 54508
From basal bulbs arise erect fleshy lance leaves with maroon designs. Needs high light!!
$6.00
Product Code: 65823
Very wide pale green jade-toned fleshy leaves fan out into an open circle over the fat, swollen surface bulb; winter dormant (leafless) if kept quite cool during winter; very slow to offset. Of more botanic than horticultural interest.
$8.00
Product Code: 65824
Wonderful miniature with delicately mottled fleshy leaves on clustering glossy surface bulbs. Lovely undemanding houseplant; always a favorite carefree windowsill citizen; excellent addition to any dish garden and a great visual companion to the more commonly available L. socialis.
$4.00
Product Code: 65827
Formerly Scilla violacea. "Silver Squill" Rich purple swollen bulblets in thick clusters support small violet- backed leaves whose surfaces are dotted silver. Easy houseplant with small wands of tiny white flowers produced seasonally. If allowed to become a many-headed specimen, the winter blooms can be quite impressiv...
$4.50
Product Code: 65829
A lovely olive ovals scattered on ash blue to glaucus green leaves held in bunches over the swollen bulbs which ofset to form a perfect hemisphere. Originally shared with us by Ruth Crane, this beauty is probably a separate species not accurately identified.
$4.50
Product Code: 65830
A cultivar selected by the late Juda Livesay sporting fantastic white variegation as stripes throughout which become pink-tinted in strong light. Much valued by collectors of unusual variegates. Not as vigorous as the species forms. Usually shipped as divisions in dry perlite to prevent any rotting.
$38.00
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Product Code: 56904
Whorled fleshy leaves with dark motting emerge from the clustering surface bulbs. Known as Scilla violacea in victorian times. Much larger statured than the other "Tropical Squills" offered in this list.
This is the stunner of the group.
$12.00
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Product Code: 60434
Tight clustered Crassula cousin usually under one inch in height (the yellow-flowered inflorescence might impressively reach another full inch); the fat keeled red-green leaves root where ever they scatter, thus quickly forming a glossy carpet for succulent bonsai. Please be aware that this will probably defoliate duri...
$4.00
Product Code: 66222
From the Jim Peterson collection. Ribbed short "Stems" soon form low attractive cacti clumps. Lovely silky blossoms.
$6.50
Product Code: 68594
More correct as Mangave hybrid as is a Carl Schoenfeld cross of Manreda variegata with Agave Seisii resulting in a impressive rosette/whorl of fleshy rubbery glaucous leaves spotted with red polkadots brightest in full sun. Responds to regular watering.
$15.00
Product Code: 67331
"Masai Spurge" slender angled stems with upright art Noveau ridges topped with multiple scarlet to pink showy cymes--thesebright hooded flowers open near Thanksgiving and still are colorful at Easter! The serrate-edged keeled leaves are deciduous. Popular.
$6.50
Product Code: 67334
"Sausage Spurge" Fat tubercled stems, much branched, with fat sickle-shaped leaves and bract-cup cymes of greenish-white with lovely purple mottling; from Kenya. Quite successful as a "Medusa Head" on top of statuary.
$15.00
Product Code: 40661
"Sea Urchin Plant" From huge "Swollen Pickle" ground-level stems, thinner succulent stems arise, bearing rough waxy, fingered leaves; unique yet of easy culture. The basal thick "pickles" form the first season, then send up vines the next. Too much fun not to grow. Every collector needs a cucumber in their windowsill.
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$22.00
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Product Code: 66283
"Cotton Candy Prinkly Pear" Flat pads of bright white spines on plants that branch and cluster with interesting shapes. Usually sent as cuttings in perlite. The pictures, of course, show the plant after several years. You do not want to touch the fuzz because the little spines will come off on your fingers. Great looki...
$4.00
Product Code: 66268
A wonderful rich bright green fasciation of "Eve's Pincushion " with the typical persistent fleshy needles erupting from a short tangle of white fuzzy spined cushions. Eventually forms a tall hemisphere of thick curved crests. Chilean native requiring full sun, reliable air movement, excellent drainage. We prefer to se...
$15.00
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Product Code: 56942
"Cotton Coral Cactus" Slim very furry slim columns densely cloaked with thin long white hairs--must have good air movement, full sunlite. Deep red flowers appear on this "Cotton Pole" with erect stalks.
Shipped as cuttings in perlite
$8.00
Product Code: 66267
"Cotton Coral Cactus" Slim very furry fans with dramatic fasciate tips densely cloaked with thin long white hairs--must have good air movement, full sunlite, and excellent drainage. Deep red flowers appear on any reverted "Cotton Pole" slim stalks. Usually most safely shipped as calloused unrooted cuttings, but best in...
$25.00
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Product Code: 66049
"Marbled Maverick Cactus" Remains the dramatic vertically bold tropical Cactus most easily grown into a stunning piece of living sculpture--even on a sunny windowsill, as it has no seasons and no objections to fertilizer or heat. Rich ivory marbled slightly flattened pad clusters become pinkish-violet in high light. Be...
$6.25
Product Code: 66050
"Joseph's Coat" Long flattened white chocolate pads with random designs of green. Must have full light to survive. An oddity originally received from Hummel--not to be confused with the dwarf, much branched "Maverick Cactus." Typically, we cut and root a pad for you only upon receiving your order; but can easily send a...
$15.00
Product Code: 60151
"Starfish Cactus" (But of course not a Cactus but a member of the Milkweed family.) Small stems bear large yellow starflowers marked umber and purple, accented by a central ring (called annulus). Formerly Stapelia variegata, requiring constant warmth, quickly rotting if chilled. These are sent as sections in dry perlit...
$8.00
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Product Code: 65833
"Sea Onion" or "German Onion" Glossy strap leaves top the ever expanding, ever more impressive opalescent green bulbs (which sit on the surface of the soil) whose sides constantly erupt to give "birth" to new bulblets (produced in clusters under each onion skin of the bulb surface), thus known everywhere as the "Pregna...
$4.50
Product Code: 65616
Very showy glossy surface bulbs topped with sweeps of upright slim lf blades & wands of green flowers used for cutting in tropical gardens. Offsetting clumps soon produce handsome specimens with gradually forming hemispheres of the waxy endlessly offsetting bulbs. Must have full sun to keep the foliage erect.
$8.00
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Product Code: 40701
Impressive stocky erect stems hold fleshy leaves and orange to yellow flowers. Grow as a succulent; prefers a Summer rest period in the warm south. Strong upright grower in your Winter greenhouse.
$6.75
Product Code: 66706
No two stems fasciate in the same pattern on this succulent species with yellow flower clusters. This photo shows a double crest as well as a species form reversion. This Oxalis will try to constantly revert.
$22.00
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