It’s not a starfish, not at all. It’s an aloe! Aloe castilloniae (can someone check my spelling, please?)
Aloe
Tiny Globules
Tiny globular leaves and then, surprise! tiny pink flowers!
Tylecodon schaeferianus
Tightly Stacked Succulent Leaves
Common Name: Silinderplakkie
Origin: South Africa; Namibia
Description: Miniature square-shaped vertical stems to 6″. Grows in quartz outcroppings along hillsides.
Temperature
: Hardy to 28F
Agave ocahui
Agave ocahui are astonishing, with a very vigorous terminal spine just
hanging out there. That red on the tips is painted on. I used the latest
in plant paint technology to individually get right up close to the
most dangerous spines around and very delicately hand paint just the
spines with no drips at all anywhere. So vibrant! You can wipe that
color off if you like, it just takes a little spit polish. Or wait for
the rains and the paint is actually made from succulent fertilizer so it
will run off into the ground and provide a really great fertilizer for
you this coming winter! This is what I do for you.
But just this one
plant. Not any of the others. If you want this one painted agave ask for
it at the store, and hopefully nobody has already bought it. It’s in
the back, so you’ll have to ask. I only told Jeremiah and Kel where it
is so you’ll have to ask for them. They know.
Black Spined Agave
Agave “Pablo’s Choice” has a certain fresh blue leaf color.
A. macroacantha “Pablo’s Choice”
1 to 2ft. blue-grey Agave, compact and low. Large black terminal spines, recurved marginal spines. Full sun at the coast. Will form dense clusters that can spread 3 to 5 feet wide. Cultivar originated near Santa Barbara. Plant in fast-draining soil, grows fast with summer water.
Works well in gardens or in containers.
Temperature: Hardy to 25F
Cape Aloe
South Africa
Single large toothy rosette on tall stalk, outdoor up to 8ft.
Hardy to 20-25F
Full Sun to Part Sun
Low Water
Lola
Mexico
Pointy, shapely leaves. Waxy 6″ rosettes rosy-purple tinged in full sun.
Hardy to 25F
Full Sun to Part Sun
Low Water
Euphorbias
Euphorbia aureoviridiflora with wide spreading leaves, thick green succulent leaves.
Madagascar
Stocky trunk, green turning grey-brown with age. Prominent leaf scars. Freely branching. Yellow-green bracts. Rocky soils.
Possibly hardy to 35F
Part Sun to Part Shade
Cactus Jungle Opens 2nd Store
Today!
Cactus Jungle, Marin is OPEN For Business!
130 Sir Francis Drake Boulevard, San Anselmo CA 94960
Succulents
At the Cactus Jungle Nursery and Garden, Berkeley
Succulent Wreaths
Succulent Wreaths, now at your local friendly Cactus Jungle, Berkeley
Interesting Framing
Aloe ferox at the Cactus Jungle on a sunny day.
It’s all good.
Common Name: Cape Aloe
Single large toothy rosette on tall stalk, outdoor up to 8ft.
Hardy to 20-25F
Full Sun to Part Sun
Black Rose
Aeonium “Schwartzkopf” is a classic, selling well at the nursery every year, forever. It is beautiful, it is tall and lanky, it is a large rosette this time of year as winter moves in. Nice!
Saturday Morning Succulents
What’s the best succulent for a Saturday morning? Some might say a Euphorbia anoplia is appropriate for a Saturday morning.
Umbrella Flower
Ceropegia sandersonii has giant umbrealla, or parachute-like flowers! Very unusual vining Stapeliad.
Common Name: Parachute Plant, Umbrella Flower
Origin: Mozambique, South Africa, and Swaziland
Description: Vining Stapeliad with massive unusual parachute-like flowers.
Characteristics:
Hardy to 45F
Part Sun
Low Water
Crassula “Buddha’s Temple”
People ask if we have Crassula “Buddha’s Temple” available and for a number of years we’ve had to say “no”. Until now. We finally have a real crop ready, to size and on the floor and ready for sale. Nice! Hopefully we will be able to keep these growing on for years to come so that anytime anyone anywhere (Berkeley, Oakland and the San Francisco Bay Area) wants one we will have it available. Now and forever.
Nice!
Miniature square-shaped vertical stems to 8″, drops bottom leaves
Hardy to 25F
Part Sun to Part Shade
Low Water
Los Angeles Area Cactus Show
Were you wondering what to do next weekend? Are you going to be in Encino next weekend? You are in luck!
If your garden yearns for crazy, colorful, drought-hearty plants, the Los Angeles Cactus and Succulent Society aims to satisfy at its first Fall Sale Sept. 16 in Encino.
A variety of cacti and succulents are up for sale. (Calvin B. Alagot / Los Angeles Times)
I say, “Woot!”
Million Hearts
Tiny little pinkish-white flowers appear all along the vines of this epiphitic jungle succulent.
Dischidia ruscifolia
Common Name: Million Hearts
Origin: Philippines
Vining epiphyte; good for hanging baskets, or terrariums.
Hardy to 40F
Part Sun
Jungle Cactus/Orchid Blend
Low Water
Crassula pubescens ssp. rattrayi
Crassula pubescens ssp. rattrayi
Common Name: Red Carpet
Origin: South Africa
Description: Forms a carpet of lightly fuzzy leaves, green in shade and bright red in full sun. Afternoon shade needed in inland locations.
Temperature: Hardy to 25F
Knobbly Mesembs
Cute South African succulents in the Mesemb Family, also known as the Iceplant Family, also known as the Living Stone Family. Indeed! To be clear the actual family name is Aizoaceae, Sub-Family Ruschioideae. And yet they’re called Mesembs because at some point in the past the family was called Mesembryanthemaceae. And some will dispute the current family name anyway, and insist these all belong under Ficoidaceae instead. Don’t get me started!
Small dense clumps of speckled blue-green leaves sit on large tuberous roots, which can be esposed over time to form an unusual bonsai. Yellow flowers in spring.
Small clumper forms dense mats of thick open leaves. Winter-growing, keep dry in summer. Grows in limestone strewn areas.
Small Burgundy Carrion Flower
Frerea indica
Common Name: Dragon Breast
Origin: India
Description: Stapeliad. Small burgundy star-shaped carrion flowers low on the stems. Fleshy green leaves when watered, drops leaves when dry. Reduce watering in winter. Prefers to be outside in a protected location.
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