Known as the ‘Elephant Tree’ in Baja, this is a fascinating and decorative tree of the Sonoran and associated floral zones of northern Mexico into extreme southern California and Arizona. Thick trunks with peeling whitish bark are grossly thick, forming a caudex, especially in plants with a restricted root zone. The foliage is pinnately compound and very lacy and delicate looking, deciduous in most instances. The sap is aromatic and the tiny fruits are quite fragrant. Growing to tree-like proportions under ideal conditions, it is also found in a dwarfed state with a Bonsai-like appearance.

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We offer cork pieces already broken into useful sizes, especially useful for those who may find it difficult to break pieces up by hand. Thickness varies from about a half inch to an inch and weighs 2 ounces (small) and 6 ounces (medium) each.

This material is widely touted to be the best and most durable substrate for mounting epiphytic plants; resisting rot and pests and lasting for many years under greenhouse conditions. The upper surface is rough and craggy and the underside, harder and fairly smooth. This product is harvested sustainably in Portugal from Quercus suber, the cork oak, and it's main use is for bottle stoppers and shoe soles. This is a completely natural product. Easily broken into any size needed and can be 'drilled' with an awl or ice pick. 

This Jim Irvin hybrid is one of three cultivars of ‘Diverse Pink’ x sinuosus ‘Cascade,’ the others being ‘Roman Candle’ and ‘Strawberries Flambe,’ having 15+ lanceolate leaves forming a medium-large plant with a full round shape to 18″ in diameter.  The medium narrow leaves in bright green flushed with orange-red along the margins at maturity are so shiny as to appear polished.  The undersides of the leaves are covered in a light lineated white scurf.

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This is a 2007 cultivar of ‘Durrell’ x ‘San Juan’ by Steve Hoppin.  The shape is a loose rosette up to 10 inches tall and 24 inches across with shiny green leaves that are wavy and have serrated edges.  The leaves have an olive green color that has a hint of bronze along the edge and slight scurfing on the underside of the leaves.

This Carole Richtmyer hybrid is a cultivar of ('Manoa Mist' x 'Clyde Jackson') x 'Earth Angel' having 12+ lanceolate leaves forming a  small plant to 8 inches in diameter with a full round shape.  The light green leaves edged and marbled with dark olive green and highlighted with light orange are covered with indistinct silver-white barring centered mostly on the midrib and not quite making it to the leaf edges.  The slightly wavy crisped leaves are highly recurved and twist at the tip to reveal the lineated medium dense scurf underneath.

A Stephen Hoppin hybrid that is a cultivar of 'Yara' x 'Bag of Tricks' having 25+ narrowly triangular leaves forming a small plant to 12-inches in diameter with a full round rosette.  The scurfed, mottled light and dark green leaves flush red towards the leaf axils and have densely serrated edges.

A cultivar of ‘Sunburst’ x (‘Red Cabbage’ x ‘Pele’) by Carole Richtmyer.  A medium grower with broad leaves in a symmetrical star shape.  The color is mottled green with red highlights, especially up the center of the leaves, becoming overall reddish-pink with stronger light.  At the maturity, the plant attains a diameter between 8 and 12 inches.

This Ed Edmiston hybrid, registered by Terry Hardouin, is a cultivar of 'Peachy Keen' x 'Brimstone' and grex mate to 'Burgundy Blast' and 'Terry's Wild Heart.'  The plant matures to an open, round, large rosette to over 18 inches in diameter.  About 15 recurving, broad (2.5" wide), wavy, dark pink-red leaves, randomly mottled dark green with slight silver-scurfed cross-banding.  Rosette flattens at blooming.

Published as a new species in 2001, this Cryptanthus is native to the Atlantic rain forest in the State of Alagoas originally collected near the town of Paripueira, but its entire range occurs in the lowland forest along the Atlantic coast from the State of Espírito Santo to Pernambuco.  It is a terrestrial, shortly caulescent, about 4 inches tall, propagating on slender basal stolons 6 to 8 inches long.  About 12 bronze green leaves are sub-spreading at flowering forming an open, oval rosette to about 24 inches in diameter.  The leaf bases are a pale purple-red with some scurfing in the axils and glabrous the entire length of the leaf with just a hint of scurf at the tips.  While the underside is densely covered in white trichomes.

This species is very closely related to pseudopetiolatus and pickelii, and part of the maritimus complex.

A rare species with very wide leaves having silver trichomes forming a solid coating over the entire leaf surface, hence giving its scientific specific name argyrophyllus meaning 'silver leaf.'  There are a couple of ridges apparent running the length of the leaves, but they are the same base color as the rest of the leaf.

***This species is prone to fungus spotting due to culture in a typical potting mix.  So for best results, we recommend growing this particular species in a dirty Turface® mix, equal parts peat based potting mix and Turface® All Sport.  Fill the bottom of your pot with a shallow layer of potting mix, this prevents the Turface® mix from running out the bottom of your pot, and the remainder with the dirty Turface® mix.

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