65823 LEDEBOURIA OVATIFOLIA LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 10.00 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.
65824 LEDEBOURIA PAUCIFLORA LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.00 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.
65827 LEDEBOURIA SOCIALIS LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 2.50 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 impressive en mass.
65831 LEDEBOURIA SOCIALIS MINOR LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.50 Formerly Scilla violacea dwarf form. " Mini 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 impressive en mass.
65832 LEDEBOURIA [SCILLA] LUTEO-SOCIALIS [HORT] LIL HP TGH PRICE: $5.50 Nomenclature most confused--appearance of a giant Ledebouria pauciflora with floppy freckled foliage; reaches impressive proportions.
60434 LENOPHYLLUM PUSILLUM CRA HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 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 during shipping--just scatter the succulent leaflets over the surface of porus soil and they will willing root. If you cannot deal with shattered leaflets, please do not order.
60911 MAMMILARIA FRED CAC HP PRICE: $12.00 Temporarily sold out. Please check back in May or June for new crops. Odd mammilaria with most unmammilaria like features. Crested and monstrose with no spines visible. Quite distinctive.
66774 MANIHOT ESCULENTA VARIEGATA EUPH HP PRICE: $ 15.00 Major rarity, the gorgeous "Variegated Tapioca" has deeply lobed leaves with radiating bright yellow central stripes; the heavy tuberous roots are the stuff of cassava and other starch products. Will prefer to go somewhat dormant if kept cool in winter. The second image here shows the plant in mid summer.
67331 MONADENIUM COCCINEUM EUP HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 "Masai Spurge" slender angled stems with scarlet to pink showy cymes--these bright hooded fls open near thanksgiving and still are colorful at Easter! The serrate-edged keeled leaves are deciduous. Popular.
67334 MONADENIUM GUENTHERI GUENTHERI EUP HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "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.
67335 MONADENIUM GUENTHERI MAMMILLARE EUP HP TGH PRICE: $ 15.00 "Gout Plant" Sap-green knobby columns with occassional weak spining of the tubercles; green-white bracts splotched with purple; Tanganyika native. Check availability before ordering.
66049 OPUNTIA VULGARIS MONOCANTHA MONSTROSA VARIEGATA . CAC HP CGH PRICE: $6.25 "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. Beautiful, easy houseplant becoming very stunning in the added light of a hobby greenhouse.
65833 ORNITHOGALUM CAUDATUM LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "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 "Pregnant Onion"; easy first plant for a child. With maturity each big round waxy bulb sends forth a thick stemmed long wand with small white lily fls striped green. Easy. Easy. Easy. Still remains the most ordered succulent bulb in this section. If you would like to grow a giant statured cousin (the one who took steriods) see Albuca crinifolia listed earlier in this website. Do not confuse with the slow-growing "Climbing Onion" Bowiea volubilis.
65616 ORNITHOGALUM TENUIFOLIUM LIL HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.00 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.
