A small and very decorative species with light green, red ‘tiger striped’ leaves. The leaves are in alternating, opposite pairs, are rather oblong with somewhat crenate margins. Stays fairly compact until it gets ready to bloom, when it has a growth spurt before sending up a many branched, feathery inflorescence from each stem. The flowers are purple, but tiny.

A pachycaul native to Madagascar where it attains tree-like dimensions. In cultivation it responds to pot size and will remain dwarfed if kept in smaller containers. The silvery trunk is thick and covered with heavy spines and is crowned with light green, six to ten inch leaves. Very easy to cultivate and useful in xeriscaping in frost free areas. Makes a good house plant, and often goes by the name of 'Madagascar Palm' but of course, it is not palm at all. 

Note: Pachypodiums go dormant in winter and lose their leaves. Do not be alarmed by this natural leaf drop. 

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A highly decorative and unusual small geophyte from Madagascar. Twisted stems covered with prominent leaf scars bear thick leaves with wavy margins, colored in shades of green, brown and copper. A substantial caudex will form with time.

Our plant are seed grown from a controlled pollination.

A showy, small, shrubby species from Veracruz, Mexico. Horizontally spreading branches produce whorls of elongate, succulent, red-edged, yellowish leaves. Takes on an orange tint in strong light. Produces white flowers.

One of the mules-ear types of Kalanchoes. Long wide leaves, green foliage but will flush a bright peachy-pink color when grown hard. Does great in a hanging pot.

We received this plant labelled as Kalanchoe waldheimii but recently found out this may not be the proper species name. Until we get definitive information it's still being sold as waldheimii.

Outstanding plants now considered a form of obesum. Thicker and squatter than most other forms, these beauties form an extra thick caudex with multiple fat branches. The flowers are pink with stripes in the throat.

A succulent perennial shrub-let with stems that become woody with age. Size tends to be about 18 to 24 inches in cultivation but can reach over three feet in the wild. Leaves are succulent with a coating of short hairs. Leaves and flowers are aromatic. Native to East Africa and the Arabian Peninsula area, growing in dry, Acacia scrub and rocky soils.

Widely used as a medicinal plant for throat and stomach ailments. The root is edible when cooked. The plant is a source of thymol. Flowers are purple and somewhat decorative. Cultivation is easy and propagation is by seed or stem cuttings.

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An interesting and rather rare species from Madagascar, with a tall and straight trunk bearing rows of sharp but short spines. The foliage is restricted to the top of the plant where it grows in a crown of wide green leaves, resembling a little palm.

Greenish flowers are borne on a cluster of compound branches at the crown. Younger specimens tend to be unbranched but branching does occur with maturity.

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Spontaneous or accidental Euphorbia hybrids that appear as ‘weeds’ on our benches. Variable in size, shape and character, but are all nice. Most have Euphorbia milii as one parent and have spiny, branching stems, narrow to rounded leaves and red to orange or green flowers.

Many form thick, gnarled trunks desirable for bonsai culture, and there have been some caudiciforms among them. No two alike.