A bigeneric hybrid that was made at Tropiflora. A medium size plant with a rosette of few leaves. Silver grey trichomes cover the leaves. The is a hint of burgundy at the leaf axils. The recurving leaves have large spines along the edges. The plants we have are grown from seedlings and have slight variations from each other.

This is a species of the dry Cerado vegetation, growing mainly as an lithophyte on the many inselbergs of the dry interior of Minas Gerais state of Brazil. In nature this plant is variable in color with silvery, green and red plants, some bearing silver banding growing together. The inflorescence is a tall rachis with a cluster of sessile green flowers concentrated on the top portion. Our plants originated with wild seed.

A species from northeastern Peru with large white flowers, light green in the center and nicely fragrant. Foliage is glossy, deep green and petiolate. An easy species to grow, blooming often twice each year summer and winter.

*VIPP plants are bulbs

THIS PLANT IS ON C.I.T.E.S. AND CANNOT BE EXPORTED

A spiny dwarf shrub from South Africa. Gray-blue to olive green branches with numerous reddish brown spines. Branches at a small size. Can grow to over 12 inches in height. Puts on a nice shows of yellow flowers when blooming. This is considered the minor form.

THIS PLANT IS ON C.I.T.E.S. AND CANNOT BE EXPORTED

An attractive and bizarrely beautiful Euphorb from Madagascar. Thick, procumbent stems bear distinctive leaf scars and inch-long, succulent, very crisped or crinkled leaves. A very flat growing, mat forming shrub with an underground caudex. Flowers or cyathea are tan to pinkish. Light exposure will determine color which can range from deep green to pinkish brown. A superb plant for container culture or rock garden. Water about weekly in warm months and allow a drier rest during cooler periods. Propagate from seed or stem cuttings.

C.I.T.E.S. - No export, sorry

C.I.T.E.S. - No Export

A Gasteria x Aloe hybrid, but the exact cross we do not know. About 5 inch rosettes are dark green with a gray wash, white spots with tubercles and whitish margins on the tapering leaves. Pretty, easy and a clumping plant.

A spectacular variegated chimera of ospinae v. gruberi. Upright growth of green mottled leaves have bold white variegation running up the length. Within the variegation the mottling is red giving the pattern a sharp contrast which makes it stand out. An exceptional clone of an exceptional species! 

Clumping, smaller form which matures at only about 12 to 18in. Native to Colombia, it has slightly grayish-green leaves with darker reticulations, arranged along a short stem. This plant has a clustering habit and produces multiple branched spikes of yellow. Not a rare plant, but nice.

*Some leaf blemishes

A rare hybrid of Hechtia argentea x tillandsioides named after Dorothy Byer. It Is not clear if this is a natural hybrid or a man-made hybrid, but was named by Dorothy along with Dutch Vandervort.

Hechtia hybrids are very rarely made as it takes a male and female plant, blooming at the same time, not just two different plants. A large grower with very many narrow, tapering leaves in a full, leafy rosette. The leaves arch gracefully, somewhat recurving. The marginal spines are very reduced, but are sharp and the plant should be handled with caution as the leaf edges can cut your skin quite easily. 

A species from Tamaulipas state of Mexico. An easy to grow species that forms large, silvery-scurfy rosettes. Oddly, the offsets come off with soft, glabrous leaves, developing the scurfy appearance that protects them from the sun, as they mature. The narrow, spiny leaves are rather soft (for a Hechtia) and the tips naturally die back and curl.