A beautiful red foliaged form of Nudicaulis from the vicinity of Martinhos-Morretes, Parana, Brazil. Compact, upright rosettes of broad leaves that are stiff, blunt and glossy are colored medium green with a red wash and a veneer of dark burgundy in bands and streaks. The leaf undersides have a grayish wash. The inflorescence is bright yellow with flaming red bracts, very showy. Very stoloniferous and thrives mounted. Looks great in a hanging basket too.

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Clustering bronzy-yellow upright plants about 10 inches tall, with narrowly tapering leaves much like the wilsoniana parent. The plants have dark maroon banding and much reddish speckling.

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Small stoloniferous plants, green with red spots. Can take on an overall reddish hue in bright conditions. Great for terrariums and hanging pots.

This brilliantly colored miniature is a Skotak hybrid of (carolinae variegata x Hannibal Lecter) x (Tiger Cub). A funnel like, vase shape with green leaves that are boldly albomarginated and with vivid red or deep pink banding on the upper and undersides. Offsets are on very short stolons. A good choice for terrariums.

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A medium sized, upright, open vase-shaped rosette with fairly stiff leaves that are dusted with trichomes. The inflorescence is showy, a cylindrical spike of ‘match stick’ flowers of bright orange with blue petals.

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A medium to large growing plant with stiff, channeled leaves averaging 30 inches long and two inches wide with stout, black marginal spines. The leaves are medium green with a grayish scurf, heaviest on the undersides. They have a terminal spine and blush blackish-brown in strong light. It forms a funnel-form rosette to 4 feet across and at anthesis can reach over 3 feet tall.

The inflorescence is a branched panicle with a stiff scape of bright orange, orange branches with orange bracts, sometimes dusted with silver trichomes. The ovaries are blue-gray and the petals bright purplish blue. This plant was brought from Brazil in 1996 where it was reportedly collected by Pedro Nahoum and Chester Skotak. Although it keys closest to Portea petropolitana var. noettigii, it is not typical of that plant (per Harry Luther of the MFBIC) and may be a hybrid. It was named as a cultivar in honor of Helga Tarver, an avid amateur taxonomist in Clearwater, Florida.

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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.

A uncommon species that is not found in many plant collections. It originates in Minas Gerais, Brazil growing on rocky outcroppings. The color can vary from gray to silver with hints of red. The mature size is 10 to 12 inches across. 

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A species only described in 2003, by Elton Leme, native to the Santa Lucia ecological reserve near Santa Teresa, Espirito Santo, Brazil where it grows high in the forest canopy and thus had escaped prior detection. A small grower with upright rosettes to about 8 to 10 inches, light green with abundant dark purple spots on both sides of the leaves. Flowers have purple tipped white petals. A handsome plant and a surprising new variety.

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A Ray Coleman cross of (gigas x ‘Tingua’) that is a large growing plant reaching 20 inches tall and 45 inches across with 3 inch wide leaves. In strong light the leaves are rich, rusty brown with some dark red speckling. No significant color change at anthesis. Flowers are blue. Useful in landscape as it is a large grower with a tolerance for sun and harsh conditions.

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A miniature hybrid from Vinzant is a cultivar of ‘Screaming Tiger’ x ‘Doodlebug’. The plant is vase shaped with a slightly flaring top. The color is a deep chocolate burgundy with yellow banding, with the leaf axils almost solid yellow. The banding seems to be in the middle portion of the plant. There is no color change at anthesis. Offsets before anthesis, with offsets on stolons.

A mound forming miniature lithophytic or terrestrial species from Bolivia and Argentina. Formerly known as Abromeitiella lorentziana, the plant is a mounding species which forms many ‘heads’, each about two inches across. The leaves are stiff and thickly succulent, acutely triangular and very sharply pointed. Normally green in cultivation, it may blush a gray to rusty red in full sun. The flower is without a scape and is deep green. Easy to grow in well-drained soil in bright light to full sun.