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A selection of TROPICALS, some in very limited supply, covering the last part of the letter "P":
This page contains the following plant groups: Pilea (Artillery Fern), Pinellia, Piper (Pepper), Pistia (Water Lettuce), Pitcairnia, Pittosporum, Platycerium (Staghorn Fern), Plectranthus (Swedish Ivy), Plumbago, Podocarpus (Buddhist Pine), Pogonatherum (Dwarf Bamboo), Pogostemon (Patuchouli), Polianthes, Polygonum, Polypodium (Bears Paw Fern), Porphyrocoma, Procris, Protasparagus (Asparagus Fern), Pseuderanthemum, Psilotum (Whisk Broom Fern), Pteris (Table Fern), Puereria (Kudzu Vine), Punica (Pomegranite), Puya, Pyrrosia (Strap Fern). p>
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A group of the beautiful leaved Pilea Plants. Many of these make good terrarium plants
and tend to stay compact and low growing. Check availability below.

41037 PILEA BERTERTONIA [MOLLIS; CRASSIFOLIA] URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 "Moon Valley Pilea" Very puckered, quilted apple-green leaves with serrated edges, sometimes with center chocolate blotch. Costa Rican plant sometimes considered a form of Pilea involucrata with extremely bullate leaves. Great for terrariums or plant room.

41040 PILEA CADIEREI MINIMA PATTI'S GOLD URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Subtle splotches of honey yellow sometimes turn bright cream as the already silver-pillowed leaf surfaces mature. A remarkable, though subtle, selection by Patti Lee for all collectors of variegates.

58332 PILEA DARK MYSTERY [SPECIES]URT TGH TERR PRICE: $ 7.75 The eyecatching "Pewter Pilea" (unidentified species) with a low spreading habit. Short succulent maroon stems crowded with elongated dark rose blushed pewter leaves richly quilted by spruce green depressed veins and toothed deep green margins. Sometimes listed as Pilea species Ecuador.

41041 PILEA DEPRESSA URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 Popularity indicated by multitude of popular names; "Shiny Creeping Charley," "Giant Baby Tears" "Mini Peperomia", by any name an excellent terrarium groundcover easily grown, attractive base for any leggy houseplant.

53150 PILEA GLAUCA URT HP TGH PRICE: $3.75 Carpeting "Silver Sprinkles" or gray artillery fern--very prostrate much branching stemlets with multitudes of tiny (barely a pea's width) glaucous oval leaves. A fabulous groundcover, perfect for terrariums or for dishgardens--proven in the latter as has proven remarkably tolerant of low humidity,.

41046 PILEA GRANDIFOLIA CORAL URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 Also Pilea grandis superba. "Copper Pilea" Striking richly quilted pinkish- copper shimmery leaves on erect large spreading Jamaican bush. Easy.

41045 PILEA GRANDIFOLIA [GRANDIS] URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.50 Bright ochre basil green glossy leaves, toothed & puckered. Reliable in a wide range of climates--fun to add this quilted texture to windowbox and patio urn combinations.

41047 PILEA INVOLUCRATA [SPRUCEANA] URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.25 "Panamigra Friendship Plant" Deeply quilted and tucked oval leaves of coppery brown in tight,low clusters enjoying considerable levels of light; Easy houseplant always tempting you to pet it. Sometimes this name is incorrectly applied to P, bertertonia!

41048 PILEA MICROPHYLLA [CALLITRICHOIDES] URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.50 "Artillery Plant" Small, densely branched succulent upright stems arch with tiny "Fern Mimic" teardrop leaves; tiny flowers release pollen in puffs like gunsmoke, thus the common name. Easy to grow critter endlessly popular with children of all ages.

41049 PILEA MICROPHYLLA PROSTRATA URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.00 "Waterfall Fern" Prostrate succulent stems with tiny watery leaves create a ferny, weeping effect when used in hanging baskets; perfect for terrarium carpet. Due to waxy surfaced tiny leaves, the most tolerant of any finely lacy appearing plant of lower levels of humidity and of higher levels of direct sun.

56553 PILEA MICROPHYLLA VARIEGATA URT HP TGH PRICE: $7.50 Marvelous white toned new tear drop leaves foiled by darker foliage below; the "Snow Tipped Artillery Plant" produces "gunsmoke" pollen shots--cute beyond cute.

41050 PILEA NUMMULARIIFOLIA URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "Creeping Charley" Quilted pebbled leaves overlap trailing prostate stems. Once commonly offered as a bright apple green hanging basket plant--but we would suggest an area with higher humidity. Great in the larger Wardian cases.

53000 PILEA PEPEROMIOIDES URT HP TGH PRICE: $ 10.00 Unusual foliage resembling the "Coin-Leaf Peperomia" (P. polybotrya) on succulent stout stems suckering from the base. Curious slow growing native of Yunnan, China where it grows upon limestone rocks. .

41051 PILEA PUBESCENS LIEBMANNII SILVER CLOUD URT TERR TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Beautiful bright, completely silver-pink leaves ruffled and serrated; marvelous striking mounds of thick foliage make this the crown jewel of the Pileas. Brightens up any terrarium design.

41044 PILEA SEMIDENTATA URT TERR TGH PRICE: $ 6.50 Clouds of tiny lance leaves form compact mounds topped by large heads (stools) of tiny pink bubble blossoms. Reliable and terminally cute "Gnome Stools" plant good for windowsill or terrarium. One of our best terrarium plant subjects.

66970 PILEA SERPYLLACEA STOPLIGHT URT TGH HP PRICE: $5.50 LIMITED AVAILABILITY The rich green teardrop leaves cluster like pinnae on the steroidal thick stems of the "Mexican Artillery" weighing them down like succulent fern fronds--a giant version of P. microphylla of slow deliberate growth. For collectors with considerable patience. See Procris for a similar succulent nettle.

54351PILEA SP. MOONLIGHT URT TERR TGH PRICE: $ 2.75 Small rounded quilted leaves with central pewter flame; soon forms a soft carpet. In the forgettii complex.

41054 PILEA SPRUCEANA NORFOLK URT TERR TGH PRICE: $ 4.50Puckered oval black green metallic leaves quaintly quilted and rickly banded pewter; low growing stoloniferous species from Peru with tiny clusters of rosy toned tinsy flowers when happy in your terrarium.

41053 PILEA SPRUCEANA SILVER TREE URT TERR TGH PRICE: $ 3.00 Pointed, serrated chocolate leaves with dual pewter-silver bands; forms self-branching compact mound; a colorful easy addition to terrariums and dish gardens.

56801 PINELLIA POLY SPOUT [HYB] ARAC HH HT CGH PRICE: $ 28.00 Large foliaged "Giant Green Dragon" from the late C.R. Waldron. Probably hardy even here; but cannot recommend this as more than sub-tropical. Very slow to offset in our experience. For the easy winter hardy species of Pinellia, please find them listed in the HARDY PLANT section.

53501 PIPER ADUNCUM PIP HP TGH PRICE: $ 12.00 "False Bamboo" Arched branches of lance leaves on central clump of bamboo-like jointed stalks--limit size by underpotting. Very attractive indoor pot plant subject.

53502 PIPER AURITUM PIP PRICE: $ 17.50 "Root Beer Plant" or "False Sasparilla" Strictly a greenhouse plant with rigidly erect thick bamboo like stems supporting dramatic marvelously soft fragrant leaves. (Nonetheless, some of our customers tell us that they have grown it in a two gallon pot in their plant room.) These leaves play an important role in South American Andean cooking--a more pungent version of corn husks in Mexican cuisine. A wonderful and exotic specimen only demanding reliable warmth and reasonable levels of humidity to become a dramatic punctuation mark in your collection. We have included a photo looking up into the canopy of this handsome giant in our greenhouses. Simply too wonderful not to have.

53513 PIPER BETEL [HORT] PIP HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.00 Famous clove flavored "Betel-leaf" stimulant (for wraped aound a betel nut--Areca catechu) from India also used treating diphtheria in Asia; this National Botanic Gardens clone has trailing habit of P. nigra, but with larger glossy heart shaped leaves on slightly folded petioles--very attractive vine easily grown on the windowsill; very dependable cascading from a hanging basket, happiest clambering up a moss pole, or (for the adventurous tropical herbalists out there) cascading from a summer windowbox.

53506 PIPER MAGNIFICUM (BICOLOR) PIP TGH PRICE: $ 25.00 "Lacquered Pepper Tree" Beautiful deep green puckered and glossy quilted and lacquered leaves deep maroon beneath. Like a large peperomia with corky bark from Peru. Pendant pendant catkin-like inflorescenceorescenceorescense and winged petioles. Seldom offered. Very rare and choice! Yet waxy surfaced enough to perform well as a houseplant.

66943 PIPER METHYSTICUM PIP TGH PRICE: $ 75.00 Strong plants of Fiji's famous "Kava-kava" available clone is the reputable 'Black Mo'i.' Must have high humitidy in your greenhouse. Can be a challenge in constantly warm or hot climates as this is a mountain species preferring a cooler (but NEVER CHILL) situation than many Texans can provide. We may need lead time for production is somewhat tricky with "Kava=kava" in our experience--but currently we have adequate propagations.

53507 PIPER NIGRUM [HORT] PIP HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.00 "Black Pepper Vine" Small leathery deep green heart leaves on strong vines--the source of commercial peppercorns. Quite easily grown low-light houseplant. Used in Asia also to treat food poisoning, to aid digestion. As with most of the Pipers, as the new leaves unfurl a scrufty surface wax (which protects the tender new growth) accumulates: do not decide that you have an outbreak of insects--you only are observing an outbreak of wax produced by the plant itself.

23780 PIPER SARMENTOSUM PIP CGH TGH PRICE: $ 12.00 Shrubby vine with basil green glossy wide leaves accented by cute erect catkins. Sent to us from China by Robert Newman.

53510 PIPER SYLVATICUM PIP HP TGH PRICE: $ 22.00 "Mountain Pepper" Woody-fibered vining stems hold leathery steel-green leaves with pale silver-pink raised areas. This Burmese species resembles a pewter-toned Cissus. Very slow to establish. Currently only mossed cuttings are available..
***Yes, we do maintain a wide collection of Piper species which will be offered on speciality lists as they are propagated during the warmer part of the year.

30631 PISTIA STRATIOTES ARAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 2.50 "Water Lettuce" Glorious open rosettes of spongy pearly- lime leaves with tiny caladium-like flowers nestled at their base. Great in a pool; or follow G. Elbert's suggestion and grow in moist wet sphagnum for a perfect plant under lights--just anchor a rosette in some sphagnum moss stuffed in a pot for ballast; then set the pot in a deep saucer of water. In time as the "Water Lettuce" repeatedly offsets, a nearly perfect sphere of deeply pleated spongy rosettes develops: visually marvelous.

31268 PISTIA STRATIOTES SPLASH ARAC TGH PRICE: $ 8.75 Small statured "Variegated Water Lettuce" with golden spotted and mottled velvety foliage. Very beautiful unexpectedly variegated Aroid for the collector of variegates; most striking as a colony of golden dappled deeply pleated rosettes floating on the surface of your pond or aquatic tub. Easily kept during the winter in your lite garden or sunny sphagnum bog in your hobby greenhouse.

72792 PITTOSPORUM HETEROPHYLLUM MARGINATUM PIT HH PRICE: $ 15.00 A Chinese shrub with white margined foliage; with maturity this Z9 beauty produces small fragrant yellow flowers. Very petite in appearance, but quite sturdy--growing remarkably fast for a plant so heavily variegated.

42350 PITTOSPORUM TENUIFOLIUM GOLD STAR PIT TGH CGH PRICE: $ 12.00 "Variegated Kohuhu" Smooth leathery leaves emerge quite glossy with a soft golden lime centers; subtly beautiful with the dark blackish stems. New Zealander eventually becomes a modest tree--but best gown as a short lovely container shrub.

40819 PITTOSPORUM TOBIRA VARIEGATUM PIT HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "Tropical Mock Orange" Shrub with pseudo-whorls of glossy gray-green leaves margined white; orange-scented white flowers.

13040 PLATYCERIUM BIFURCATUM NETHERLANDS POLYPO HP PRICE: $ 15.00 While the most commonly found of all the "Staghorn Ferns" in cultivation, still one of the most beautiful off setting types--with the added attraction of thriving indoors.

13004 PLATYCERIUM CORONARIUM POLYPO HP $ 100.00 Only larger plants available at this time. The "Disk" staghorn or "Crowning Staghorn" Native to Burman, Thailand, Sumatra, Borneo and the Philippines. This plant is a dry grower from high in the trees in nature. Fertile frond is a disk shape on an appendage specialized for spore. Becomes a magnificent larger specimen that requires excellent drainage. The plant has very little tomentum. Note picture.

13015 PLATYCERIUM SUPERBUM (SYN: GRANDE) POLYPO HP PRICE: $ 25.00 Newly available again for late June 2008 shipping. This is the standard form of the "Giant Elkhorn." This was known for years as Platycerium grande, now known to be the form only from the Philippines. This is the Australian giant staghorn. Refer to image. We only have a few plants available right now, but they are nice.

13041 PLATYCERIUM VEITSCHII LEMOINEI POLYPO CGH HP PRICE: $ 27.50 Robust French selection of this impressive "Staghorn Fern" with erect fronds covered with fabulous white tomentum--that is, a white pelted specimen. Beautiful when grown in a pot, but truely astounding when mounted on a plaque so that bright light and perfect air movement can bring out the fantastic white pelt.

Plectranthus (Swedish Ivy Family) for 2008

The TROPICAL MINTS--see also wooly cousins in the Coleus offerings, the winter show-off Iboza, the succulent Aeolanthus and Thorncroftia, the stalward Tetradenia, and richly perfumed Pogostemon. For a solid "fail safe" introduction to these flashy urn & windowbox characters, we offer a PLECTRANTHUS COLLECTION as Stock #99554 of 5 plants for only PRICE: $15.00.

If you are doing specifically an urn, only baskets, etc. let us know so that we can send the appropriate upright, cascading, or shrubby selection of these easy showy plants.

55572 PLECTRANTHUS AMBOINICUS LAB CGH HP PRICE: $ 3.75 Called "Cuban Oregano" or "indian Borage" for culinary uses in Mexico & West indies, although from SE Asia where its handsome foliage is used for bronchitis, asthma, headaches, burns, & scorpion sting; the leaves are used in tea, or to scent your laundry. Certainly the most attractive hanging basket plant we know of which is also handy to treat the results of any random misadventures you may have with your pet scorpion!

42354 PLECTRANTHUS AMBOINICUS OCHRE FLAME LAB CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.75 Arched stems weighed down under the weight of the succulent pelted paired leaves, each with a central pale lime flare on rich avacado green, margined with mint green crenulations; a "Spanish Thyme" with lavender-pink fls. Used in Caribbean cooking.

42086 PLECTRANTHUS AMBOINICUS VARIEGATED LAB CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.75 "Margined Spanish Thyme" or "indian Borage" Arching stems present showy pairs of fleshy crenate leaves bordered in bright white. New aromatic shoots in tropical culinary use, as "Cuban Oregano"--Astounding as a hanging basket subject; splendid cascading from urns and windowboxes. Excellent for drama in the winter greenhouse as well because quite evergreen in nature.

54034 PLECTRANTHUS ARGENTATUS LAB HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 Strikingly beautiful native of Queensland, Australia, with cascading succulent stems cloaked with thick leaves heavily pelted silver-gray; used by Longwood Gardens in their famous Silver Garden. Perfect in baskets or pots; very popular in patio containers and tropical bedding currently.

50379 PLECTRANTHUS ARGENTATUS HILLHOUSE LAB HP TGH PRICE: $ 9.50 Available late Fall of 2008. Perhaps you might want to plan on this for Spring of 2009 in your outside plantings. This is the beautiful new margined form of the above plant. Strikingly beautiful native of Queensland, Australia, with cascading succulent stems cloaked with thick leaves heavily pelted silver-gray.This is the plant listed in the book "The Grey Garden."

42241 PLECTRANTHUS DISCOLOR GREEN & GOLD LAB HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 The pairs of bright lime yellow succulent leaves (with the random velvet green midrib or slash) most dramatic against the hairy maroon cascading stems; makes a dramatic hanging basket subject--a third of the stature of its cousin, P. amboinicus. Sometimes the leaves will be solid lime-gold; sometimes a central green flame appears.

41109 PLECTRANTHUS ECKLONII ERMA LAB CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.25 Thick succulent trunk bases swell from season to season into fissured caudexes; spade-shaped leaves. Pink to violet hooked tubular flowers give name, "Cockspur Flower." Trim back severely after bright early through midwinter bloomspikes fade. Very popular with lovers of caudiforms.

66921 PLECTRANTHUS ERNESTII LAB CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.25 The thickly caudiform "Bonsai Mint" with thick small felted leaves, violet beneath; mauve flowers. Grow in a shallow container and allow the tuberous roots to develop above soil level.

41113 PLECTRANTHUS FOSTERI GREEN ON GREEN LAB CGH PRICE: $ 4.50 Soft lime margins on furry sea green rippled leaves; handsome erect bush flourishing in cool greenhouse, or astounding all viewers when grown as a bedding specimen plant outdoors; one of the most quickly grown of all standards: stake the stalk to the desired height then repeatedly pinch to create a terminal poodle or globe shape.

41111 PLECTRANTHUS FOSTERI MARGINATUS LAB HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.50 "Giant Candle Plant" Erect square stems hold wide scalloped leaves richly margined white. Very showy specimen will light up a display urn or windowbox, a tropical bed or island, a group of standards, or a sunny windowsill. Nurseries offer this in an array of creative names, but we maintain the botanically recognized name established by the Kirstenbosch Botanic Gardens--after all it is their native.

41657 PLECTRANTHUS GRANDIDENTATUS LAB CGH HP PRICE: $ 3.50 Ernst van Jaarsveld at Kirstenbosch B.G. sent us this very dramatically cascading species with thick prostrate stems hidden by showy wide succulent scalloped leaves with furry haired surfaces; perfect for hanging baskets.

51905 PLECTRANTHUS HADIENSIS TOMENTOSUS CARNEGIE LAM TGH HP PRICE: $ 4.75 Attractive rounded cascade of succulent scalloped mint green leaves, fragrant when crushed, perfect beneath the sprays of late fall white blossoms. A new treasure from Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens. We hope the name is sufficiently elaborate.

53388 PLECTRANTHUS HILLIARDIAE LAB CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.50 Somewhat succulent upright Afircan with deep green foliage--grown for its showy decorative spikes of pale lavender tubular blossoms, with speckled throats, which open late fall on into winter. From Longwood Gardens--more fragile than most of its kin.

41922 PLECTRANTHUS MADAGASCARIENSIS LOTHLORIEN LAB HP PRICE: $ 3.75 The mint green, scalloped fragrant leaves of the species are beautifully decorated with a central yellow-ochre flame.

41107 PLECTRANTHUS MADAGASCARIENSIS MARGINATUS LAB CGH PRICE: $ 3.00 "Variegated Mint Leaf" A confusingly identified form sold in the mid-west as "Basket Iboza" with fast-spreading, cascading soft stems covered with white-margined minty, serrate leaves. Formerly offered under the then correct name of P. coleoides marginatus minimus. Hard to keep up with the Mint tribe nomenclature.

41711 PLECTRANTHUS MENTHOL EUCALYPTUS [SPECIES] LAB PRICE: $ 3.75 Short woody stems are completely covered by mounds of thick succulent tiny "scalloped pillow" leaves with hirsuit surface-- giving off very pungent fragrance when brushed. Popular. Probably a form of the Kenyan Plectranthus coeruleus.

41128 PLECTRANTHUS MONA LAVENDER LAB CGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Widely branching purpled stems with glossy wide rippled leaves toned violet provide a perfect background for the many thick spikes of garnet magenta blossoms freely produced late fall. Beautiful all year. Shamelessly trendy.

41123 PLECTRANTHUS OERTENDAHLII UVONGO LAB HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.00 A Kirstenbosch collection of traditional "Prostrate Coleus" with very bright ash-silver surface patterns. Beautiful selection of "Swedish Mosaic Ivy." Very popular.

41124 PLECTRANTHUS PROSTRATUS LAB HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.25 "Pillow Plant" or "Succulent Swedish Ivy" Profusions of tiny thick crenulate leaves form a lime-green mat--lines of purple form on leaf edges if in bright light; white flowers toned violet. Very popular as a filler in succulent wreaths and prized by designers of topicary animals as remains very low growing.

41125 PLECTRANTHUS PURPUREUS LAB HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Another "Succulent Swedish Ivy" Profusions of tiny thick velvety leaves form a lime-green mat--lines of purple form on leaf edges if in bright light; white flowers toned violet.

41877 PLECTRANTHUS SPICATUS NELSPRUIT LAB HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Erect stems bend under the weight of the fleshy succulent cupped (boat shaped) leaves of felted apple green with scalloped edges purple in good light to echo the thick pale purpled stems. Great in a small bonsai pot.

41129 PLECTRANTHUS STRIGOSUS MABABANE LAB HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 Bright pearl mint flowers in small showy spikes over succulent deep veined foliage. Needs full sun to maintain foliage quality. This is propagated to order.

41658 PLECTRANTHUS TURPENTINE [MARRUBIOIDES?] LAB CGH HP PRICE: $ 3.25 Pine scented scalloped furry succulent leaves on thickly furred cascading stems. Very potent "fragrance."

51907 PLECTRANTHUS VENTERI SNOWFLAKE LAM TGH HP PRICE: $ 5.25 Distinctive deeply lobed pelted leaves on self branching stout stems; the purplish mauve blossoms usually appear in late fall. Our selection of this wooly aromatic foliaged charmer produces elaborately cut "Snowflake" leaves. Fantastic in a clay pot on your sunny summer deck; easy in your winter windowsill. Perfect where you need a tough as nails plant which gives an appearance of lacy delicacy.

41130 PLECTRANTHUS VERTICILLATUS (AUSTRALIS) LAB TGH HP PRICE: $ 3.75 Formerly P. nummularius and P. australis.. The ever popular "Swedish Ivy" vine with waxy crennate leaves in pairs on strong cascading stems eventually tipped with racemes of white flowers--technically the clusters of flowers are in verticillasters a half inch around. This is an old so-called "Victorian Favorite." It is often seen in some areas of the country as a patio hanging basket plant. It works well in the home also.

41131 PLECTRANTHUS VERTICILLATUS VARIEGATUS LAB TGH HP PRICE: $ 5.50 Formerly P. nummularius and P. australis.. The ever popular "Marbled Swedish Ivy" vine with waxy crennate leaves in pairs on strong cascading stems eventually tipped with racemes of white flowers--technically the clusters of flowers are in verticillasters a half inch around. While this basic has fabulous white variegated sections, it can revert so you will need to be sure to trim reversions from this as it grows so that you maintain just the best variegation.

54453 PLECTRANTHUS ZULUENSIS LAB HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.50 From widening nearly "caudex" woody bases arise purpled stems with richly textured leaves & spikes of violet flowers late fall and early winter. Our customers find this much easier to grow than the similar P. hilliardiae.

40224 PLEOMELE REFLEXA SONG OF INDIA AGA HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.00 Ribbed trunks support thick swirls of short dark strap leaves margined in wide ivory bands; Pleomele reflexa variegata or Song of India. Few house plants this highly variegated flourish in normal dry indoor conditions as well as this one.

40824 PLUMBAGO AURICULATA CULTIVAR PLU TGH HP PRICE: $ 6.50 "Cape Leadwort" Woody meandering vine with marvelous phlox-like heads of sky-blue flowers. Classified as a shrub, yet will meander on up a trellis. This is a dark-toned cultivar noted for its long blooming cycle.

41903 PLUMBAGO AURICULATA ALBAPLU TGH HP PRICE: $ 8.25 "White Cape Leadwort" Short spikes of white flowers on vigorous evergreen vining shrub. Great container plant producing the "Garden Phlox" mimic flower heads when in full light.

60797 PLUMERIA HYBRID COLORS MIXED APO CGH HP PRICE: $ 15.00 We attempt to maintain yellows, reds, and white and will seriously attempt to send the color range in which you are interested; forms a big shrub--good lemony frangrance if blooms in quite hot situation. Winter dormant.

40827 PODOCARPUS GRACILIOR [ELONGATUS] POD HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.00 "Weeping Yellowwood" Thin long leathery leaves beautifully weep on cascading branches; very graceful specimen houseplant. More correct as Afrocarpus gracilior

59258 PODOCARPUS HENKELII POD CGH HP PRICE: $ 6.00 Beautiful Natal species with lustrous weeping broad needles spirally arranged on furrowed shoots; good in containers, as a specimen the dark gray bark exfoliates in long strips. Newly popular as a bonsai subject; also excellent as a long term subject for a standard. Zone 10.

40830 PODOCARPUS NAGI POD CGH HH PRICE: $ 12.00 "Broad leaf Yellow-Wood" from the Ryukyu Islands with broad leathery leaves (resembling the foliage of Agathis) on stiff stems of sub tropical tree. Slow growing very rarely offered species.

56236 POGONATHERUM CRINITUM GRA HP CGH PRICE: $ 6.50 "German Bamboo" A lovely grass of great delicacy with fast clumping erect Bamboo-like stalks reaching a foot height; these branched stalks are clothed with sea-green slim leaf blades. Fabulous when displayed as a bonsai; customers in the subtropics inform us this is a most successful thickly clumped vertical vase perfectly accenting any border design. This "Bamboo Grass" is now listed in Poaceae.

55665 POGONATHERUM CRINITUM VARIEGATUM GRA TGH HP PRICE: $ 10.00 "Striped Bonsai Grass" This tropical grass forms a tight thicket of short erect stalks topped with a haze of slim yellow striped glaucous blades. Looks like a clump of giant bamboo, only this is a foot tall. A tip of the hat to Barry Yinger who shared this with us initially--it has since earned a place on the indoor windowsill, in the small scaled bog, with other ornate containers on the deck, and even in bonsai shows, having won over a number of our customers in a very short time. (We soon hope to have enough of the white striped version of this winner to offer.)

42344 POGONATHERUM CRINITUM WHITE STRIPES GRA HP CGH PRICE: $ 8.50 Charmng thickly clumped "Bonsai Bamboo" tropical grass with the tiny slim leaf blades pinstriped bright white; rare. Beautiful as a psuedo-bamboo in bonsai pot. China-Austrailia cousin of Saccharm with whitish spikelets.

49479 POGONATHERUM PUNICEUM GRA HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.75 A charming "Bamboo Mimic" for typical situations: the very tightly clumping short stems arch out elegantly under the weight of richly green overlapping leaf blades--blades which are considerably wider and more dramatic than P. crinitum cultivar. The mature outline is that of a short vase, while that of the crinitum is very erect and tall.

41132 POGOSTEMON PATCHOULI [HORT] LAB CGH HP PRICE: $ 6.00 Attractive coleus-statured species of uncertain nomenclature famous as the source of musky "Patchouli" intensely fragrant mint-sandlewood perfume--the predominent scent of every good rock concert (or do I date myself?). The source of Asian herb preparations for digestion, for snake bite; depression; even to prevent the spread of infection. Will defoliate if chilled during the winter, and although it will bounce back from a chill, the undistinguished spikes of winter blossoms may not form .

68355 POLIANTHES TUBEROSA SUVARNA REKHA/MARGINATA AGA CGH PRICE: $ 22.00 "Variegated Tuberose" A cultivar from K.S.G.'s Nursery with each waxy leaf margined creamy-gold; ivory waxy intensely fragrant flowers were called `Omixachitl' by Aztec for "Bone Flower" in their rituals. A very beautiful variegate for the serious collector, yet of easy culture.

66905 POLIANTHES TUBEROSA THE PEARL AGAV CGH PRICE: $ 6.75 The fabuously scented "Double Flowered Tuberose" for intense fragrance in your winter greenhouse. Or: turn the dormancy cycle around and bloom this in your summer bed with the intensely fragrant "Omixachitl" blossoms creating a possible event for a summer party once you translate the Aztec codex as to which ritual need be performed!

40836 POLYGONUM CAPITATUM POLYGO CGH HP PRICE: $ 4.25 "Jacob's Ladder" Everblooming white popcorn-clover flower-heads bob over prostrate carpet of red-haired leaves zoned in rich mahogany--foliage turns wine-red if used as a bedding plant in full sun; Himalayan tropical knotweed perfect for hanging baskets.

69019 POLYGONUM ODORATUM POL CGH PRICE: $ 6.50 "Thai Basil" A lovely vine (actually winter hardy here if planted next to a warm foundation) with elongated heart shaped leaves beautifully veined. Easily trained on a trellis.

10901 POLYPODIUM (PHLEBODIUM) AUREUM AREOLATUM POLYP HP TGH PRICE: $ 7.50 "Blue Bears' Paw" Broad rigidly erect fronds and rhizomes intense blue. The rhizome is less hairy than the species form. The blue color is powdery.

11424 POLYPODIUM (PLEBODIUM) AUREUM MANDIANUM POLYP HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 Manda's "Crisped Blue Fern" still offered as Polypodium 'Mandianum' in the trade. Over stout basal "Hare's Foot" rhizomes clothed with silery blond hair arise graceful glaucous blue fronds with wavy deep lobes. May take considerable time to establish.

11657 POLYPODIUM FALLAX POLYPOD HP CGH PRICE: $ 10.00 This footed fern is compact but highly crested.

11114 POLYPODIUM FORMOSANUM POLYPOD HP CGH PRICE: $ 4.75 The "Naked Rabbit Foot Fern," so called as the small bright chalk white rhizomes are not furred but seem to flow over the surface, dividing like "E.T.'s Fingers" under a very low canopy of beautiful delicately lobed bluish fronds. Easy once established--a tremendous performer on a mossed topiary globe..

54343 POLYSCIAS GUILFOYLEI QUINQUEFOLIA ARAL HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.50 Woody bonsai trunks accented wtih frilled and crested foliage; thus "Celerly Leaf Panax".

11152 POLYSTICHUM TSUS-SIMENSE POL CGH HH HT PRICE: $ 6.50 "Painted Rock Fern" Miniature deep green fern; perfect for cool terrarium, while hardy enough for the protected woodland or sheltered trough.