Succulents

Abromeitiella Chlorantha

(This plant comes in a 3.5" pot. You will receive a very similar plant to the one in the picture. It may or may not be blooming at the time of your purchase. The plant is shipped in its pot to prevent any damage to the roots).

Abromeitiella chlorantha

Description: Abromeitiella chlorantha is a low densely caespitose perennial cushion forming sub-succulent herb, a very peculiar terrestrial bromeliad that forms a neat, ultimately large and compact rounded 'mound' up to 90 cm in diameter with hundreds of small narrowly standing rosettes of leaves.

Grow it like succulents in in full sun to light shade and well drained soil. They are slow growing and Plants very drought tolerant. They should be watered regularly especially during summer months, keep dry in winter. It is probably one of the cold hardiest of the bromeliads, but detesting winter wet on its foliage, proves difficult to keep outside.

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Adenia Glauca

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Flowers: Cream colored flowers

Blooming season: Early spring.
They rot easily and do NOT like a lot of water when they have no leaves.

The plants for decoration are grown from seed since they develop a caudex.

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Adenia Veneata

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Adenia venenata is quite easy to grow. In pot it does not grow as in nature but you can still appreciate the bottle shaped caudex. Grow it in a large pot with a well draining mix. Water during the vegetative period by letting it dry well between one watering and the other. It requires intense light but protect it from blasting summer sun. It can be grown as a Bonsai .
Hardiness: In winter keep it dry at temperatures above 5 degrees Celsius (even if it is resistant to short frosts).
Propagation: Seeds or herbaceous cuttings. Leave cutting surface to dry well, before planting
Warning: handle with care because it is a poisonous plant
Uses: The plant is widely cultivated near villages for its medicinal and tribal uses. Adenia venenata is used to treat intestinal worms. In Kenya Turkana people use the leaves to treat cattle suffering from mange. Fruit possibly edible.

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Adenium arabicum bonsai

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Whether you are a new collector or seasoned grower, you will be passionate about the beautiful 'Desert Rose'. It is commonly used for bonsai.

Frost tolerance: kept in places that are absolutely frost free and dry
Sun exposure: maximum amount of light available
Origin: Africa
Growth habits: slow growing, natural bonsai character
Watering needs: water regularly and let the soil almost dry out in between waterings
Blooming habits: Some individuals will flower only in the fall, but if kept warm enough and well lighted, some (typically the hybrids) will flower virtually year round. The colors range from white to pale pink to solid, bright red.

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Adenium obesum JK

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Blooming time: It is capable of flowering all year, even sparingly during the winter, but it is more floriferous during the dry periods of Spring and Autumn.

Cultivation and propagation: It is nearly evergreen if grown in a warm greenhouse or tropical conditions, but it can lose its leaves and be forced into a long winter dormancy in cooler climates.

Pots and soils: It like pots with generous drain holes on sides and bottom, needs a very porous potting medium.

Exposition: Bright filtered light is best but in areas where light is not as burning, plants may be kept outdoors in full sun.

Water: Water plants preferably in the early mornings until the soil is well wetted and let excess water drain from the pot base. Never allow plants to dry out too often as this causes them to go into early dormancy.

Drought tolerance: High.

Hardiness: It is frost sensitive and cannot endure freezing temperatures.

Bonsai: This Adenium is suitable for most bonsai styles.

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Adenium socotranum desert rose

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By far one of the most rare and desirable of all succulents it forms in age more of a bush than a small tree (like a dwarf baobab)

Flowers: Pale to bright pink 10-13 cm in diameter. Very rarely seen flowered in collection.

Cultivation: Needs lots of light and fresh air. It will be an indoor bonsai in all but the warmest climates. Keep in a bright location in winter (minimum temperature 10° C). However, in the winter, keeping it cool gives the plant a needed rest. In summer, if possible, move outdoors to a sunny or partly shaded location. Needs little water during winter, especially when kept cool. Increase water during growing and blooming periods. The total watering needed is similar to other succulents, and it will lose leaves if overwatered. Feed monthly during spring and summer with liquid bonsai fertilizer. It has a large caudex with few short thin branches and do not need a heavy pruning after the plant's rest period as requested by other species. Eventually pruning should be kept to a minimum. The sap is poisonous, so clean hands after pruning, and avoid getting sap into open wounds.

Re potting: Root prune and re pot every two years, after the winter rest period, in a mix of 2 parts bonsai soil, 2 parts peat, and one part sand. Can tolerate being pot-bound.
Origin: Endemic from from the isolated island of Socotra in the Indian Ocean south of the Arabian peninsula and east of the Horn of Africa

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Adenium swazicun

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This is supposed to be the hardiest Adenium. It is also a very free blooming species with intense pink flowers borne in masses that tends to have a longer flowering season than most of the Adeniums.
Description: It is a dwarf shrub, up to 30 cm high, with an enlarged succulent stem with few branches, sometimes partly below ground that tend to droop or spread, especially in plants that are too shaded; mature plants have massive roots and thick stems, but a caudex is evident only in young ones.
Flower: Uniformly colored pink to deep reddish purple, blooming over a long season normally in late summer and autumn.

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Adromischus cristatus crinkle leaf plant

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Also known as "Key lime pie" and "Crinkle leaf plant." This dwarf perennial succulent has short branches covered with fine aerial roots. The leaves have this undulating margin, and generally measure 20-40 x 5-13 mm.

Recommended temperature zone: USDA: 10-11
Frost tolerance: Hardy to 25°F (-4°C)
Minimum avg. temperature: 50°F (10°C)
Sun exposure: Light shade
Origin: South Africa (Eastern Cape, Ratelpoort)
Growth habits: Dwarf succulent, up to 4"tall (10 cm), leaves up to 1.6"long (4 cm)
Watering needs: Moderate water when growing in the fall and spring, keep dryer the rest of the time
Propagation: Leaf cuttings, seeds
Cultural practices: Check for mealybugs
Blooming habits: The crinkle leaf plant has inconspicuous reddish white tubular flowers on an 8" long inflorescence (20 cm).

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Adromischus maculatus

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Description: Adromischus maculatus a.k.a. “chocolate-drop” is a nice succulent with fairly flat wedge-shaped leaves, though thick, which are beautifully marked in chocolate colour giving them a marbled appearance.

Habit: Low growing perennials leaf-succulent forming small clusters or mats.

Inflorescence: A thyrse with l(-2)-flowered cymes, grey-green, erect, 20-35 cm tall.

Flowers: Tubular, pale yellowish green. Corolla-lobes 2,5-5 mm acute, white or tinged pale pink. mauve along margins, spreading to recurred. Lower lobes and throat with club-shaped hairs. Anthers not protruding from corolla-tube pedicels 2-3 mm long. Buds thin, straight gradually tapered toward tips, spreading.

Flowering season: Summer

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Adromischus marianae f. herrei

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Flowers: Green with pinkish-red tinge.

Growth rate: It is a relatively fast-growing species.

Soil: It needs perfect drainage to flourish.

Exposure: It grows best in a partially shaded position.

Hardiness: Requires a minimum temperature 5°C

Watering: It takes more water than cacti, but let the soil dry between soaking.

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Aeonium gomerense

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This gorgeous succulent is similar to the Aeonium haworthii, mostly in color but its smaller with a slight yellowish tint. This is a low growing, drought tolerant and a tender soft succulent .

Recommended temperature zone: USDA: 10-11
Frost tolerance: Hardy to 30°F (-1°C)
Minimum avg. temperature: 50°F (10°C)
Heat tolerance: Questionable, needs light shade to shade in summer
Sun exposure: Light shade
Origin: Canary Islands (La Gomera)
Growth habits: Branching stems, rosettes up to 8" in diameter (20 cm), deep glossy green
Watering needs: Infrequent deep watering
Propagation: Cuttings, seeds

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Agave americana azul

This plant is shown in a 6 inch pot. You will receive a very similar plant to the one in the picture. It may or may not be blooming at the time of your purchase. The plant is shipped BARE ROOT.

Common names include Century Plant .

Blooming season: Late spring to summer, often flowering after 8-20 (or more) years.

Cultivation and propagation: Need full sun and a very well-drained, slightly acidic, sandy or gravely soil. As an ornamental it is also grown in large containers where it stays much smaller than its outdoor brethren. It is hardy to about -9° to - 12° C, particularly when dry but it is best to avoid severe freezing temperatures. Keep it in a cool, frost-free area in winter and put it out on the balcony or patio in summer. It grows fairly fast in summer if provided with copious water but allows to dry thoroughly before watering again. During the winter months, one should only water enough to keep the leaves from shriveling. They do well in full sun or a lightly shaded area.

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Agave Americana Medio Picta Alba

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This agave is one of the prettiest and most sought after variegated succulents in existence. It is a living sculpture with very dramatic leaves, the juxtaposition of the solid creamy white bands down the center with the powder blue of margins in a neat rosette looks right to the eye.

The var. medio-picta 'Alba' is a medium to smaller growing form of Agave americana.

Flowers: The individual flowers are yellow-green and attract hummingbirds. Flower spikes are also variegated.

Blooming season: Summer, however in warmer climates the Century Plant doesn't bloom until it is a decade old  and not a century! (up to 35 years or more in cool climates) and the plant dies after flowering.

Use: These striking plants are wonderful when used for accent, or simply to provide some all year round foliage color. They are often used in a pot as patio plants, and make an eye-catching statement. Along with other evergreen plants in pots, they can be moved around to change the scenery, or positioned to give more shelter. This is a large dramatic plant that enjoy plenty of room, preferably situated away from traffic. Good on a hillside.

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Agave americana variegata

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This is a very large-scale agave that adds drama to a xeriscape landscape. This variegated variety will grow a bit smaller than other Agaves americana but still in a big way. This is the most common of the variegated Agave americana varieties. Plant in full sun with rapidly draining soil. Too much water will cause agaves to shrivel and die.

Exposure: full sun

Water: medium, low water.

Flower color: yellow

Bloom time: Summer

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Agave angustifolia marginata

This plant is shown in a 6 inch pot. You will receive a very similar plant to the one in the picture. It may or may not be blooming at the time of your purchase. The plant is shipped BARE ROOT.

Agave Angustifolia Marginata

It is a small-medium sized Agave with a dense round rosette of leaves borne from a very short trunk. It forms clumps. Height: 50 cm to 90 cm, Spread: 50 cm to 1,20 cm.
Leaves: The leaves can reach up to 60 cm (or more)
Flowers: Greenish-yellow to white in terminal panicles and approximately 5 cm long. The flower stalks will reach up to 2.5 m in height.

Origin: Native to tropical Costa Rica and Mexico
Common Names include: Variegated Caribbean Agave, Narrow century plant.

They are great Agaves for containers because of their small size, They need full sun to partial shade or very high interior lighting

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Agave applanata cream spike

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This plant has amazing long thick leaves with thorns no the edges. It has a luscious green color with lighter green streaks. This makes a perfect decorative plant indoors and out.

Recommended temperature zone: USDA: 9b-11
Minimum avg. temperature: 50°F (10°C)
Heat tolerance: Excellent
Sun exposure: Full sun
Origin: Mexico, probably Veracruz and Puebla, cultivated elsewhere
Watering needs: Little water

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Agave blue glow

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Agave 'Blue Glow' is a slow-growing evergreen hybrid succulent. It is a cross between Agave ocahui and Agave attenuata which produces a glow-like appearance rosette of blue-green, chalky leaves with red toothed margins with a golden and red ribbon.

It can grow up to two feet tall and wide, forming a single rosette with a clumping growth habit. This agave.

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Agave colorata mescal ceniza

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Description: The Mescal Ceniza (Agave colorata) is an attractive small plant with individual succulent rosettes 60 to 120 cm in diameter. This plant is usually solitary and does not often send up many plants around the main rosette, but sometimes it may slowly clump and mature plants develop a short stem (larger group can grow up to 1.2-1.8m tall and 2-3 m in diameter). It is similar in size and armament to its bovine cousin (Agave bovicornuta), but the blue-grey leaves are wider, with stunning leaf imprints. Leaf imprints develop during the formation of the bud.

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Agave desmettiana variegata

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Also known as spineless jade agave or smooth agave, is a rosette-forming perennial succulent native to southeastern Mexico. It has a very attractive bright green with yellow variegation along the margins. Spines are very small or nonexistent along the margins. It is also noted for its infrequent but spectacular flowering spikes which appear at the end of each plant's life cycle. Each leaf can grow up to 20-40" long and to 3 1/2" wide is thick, rigid, fleshy and linear-lanceolate with smooth margins and a single reddish sharp terminal spine (to 1/2" long). Each rosette will flower only once between 8-10 years. The plant dies after flowering, but new rosettes formed from the base of the mother plant. The flowering stalk rises up to 8' tall containing terminal clusters of pale yellow flowers typically bloom in spring to early summer (May-June).

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Agave geminiflora

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Agave geminiflora is a dwarf Agave with very narrow thin light green, leaves that are very flexible. The leaves cascade from the center of the plant forming a dense rounded rosette up to 3" (90 cm) tall and wide. When plants mature they will initiate flowers which are formed in pairs on an un branched spike that rises up to 10" (3 m).

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Agave guiengola creme brulee

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Description: Agave guiengola is a fairly fast growing agave with few soft succulent leaves. It’s uniquely shaped, silvery-bluish leaves makes it a very unique statement in the landscape and it is considered by some collectors to be the most spectacular large agave because of its sculptural form.

Flowers: The flowers attract hummingbirds.

Blooming season: Spring to summer. Typically it flower only at maturity once every 15-25 years and the main crown dies after blooming.

Cultivation and propagation: This is one of the few Agaves that might do best in some shade as the leaves tend to burn in hot blazing sun. It likes regular water but don't soak it wet as it seems to suffer from edema from over watering (They enjoy a little water during the winter period too). It's also somewhat cold sensitive, protect from freezing temperatures to avoid disfiguring the foliage.

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Agave impressa

(This plant comes in a 3.5" pot. You will receive a very similar plant to the one in the picture. It may or may not be blooming at the time of your purchase. The plant is shipped in its pot to prevent any damage to the roots).

Agave impressa grows in tropical regions where the summers are hot and wet and winters are mild and dry. It is a distinctive small to medium sized Agave with no close relatives. The symmetrical rosettes with spreading light green, gracefully marked with distinct pairs of white imprints that converge near the leaf tip. The leaves are proportioned with blunt teeth and spines. This species is quite unlike any other plant in the genus. The 2 to 3 meters tall flower spike is un branched with greenish yellow flowers from tip to near base. It may be related to Agave pedunculifera.

Flowers: Green in bud, yellow with anthers, 35-40 mm long, in twos and threes on slender forked pedicels 2-2.5 cm long. Ovary slender, 17-20 mm long, 4 mm in diameter, fusiform. Tube short, 1.5-2 mm deep, 7 mm wide at apex. Tepals equal, thin, 17-18 long, 4-5 mm wide, ascending, partially recurved, linear-elliptic, the outer flat, the inner wider. Filaments, very slender, flattened, 35-40 mm long white;15-16 mm long, yellow.
Blooming season: Late-winter early-spring (January to March).
Fruits (capsules): Elongated to ovoid 15-18 long, 8-10 mm thick, sharply beaked.
Remarks: It is named for the impressed or printed patterns of spiny leaf-margins formed by waxy deposits when juvenile leaves are in contact with each other.

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