Green oval leaves will show some silver speckling. Keep warm for best growth. Bright indirect light with a bit of direct morning sun is best. Pinkesh-red flowers. Vines 10+ft long.
Cactus and Succulents - Part Shade
Hoya obscura
Fast growing vines to 8ft, medium-sized darker-green leaves, small fragrant pink flowers with yellow centers.
Hoya pubicalyx
Narrow waxy leaves on very long pendulous vines
Hoya retusa
Narrow flat tendril-like leaves on a pendulous stem. Small white star-shaped wax flowers with burgundy red centers.
Hoya wayetii
Thick waxy narrow green, red, and cream colored leaves on hanging vine, small reds wax-flowers.
Huernia boleana
Angular stems turn almost purple in full sun. Best with some protection in winter. Beautiful spotted burgundy and cream carrion flowers.
Huernia guttata ssp. reticulata
Clumps of 3″ stems, erect or recumbent; cream-colored blooms with red spots
Huernia kennedyana
Small clumps of short, stout, globose stems. Attractive 1″ striped yellow flowers.
Huernia pillansii
Green to purple stems, 3″h., bright light and frost protection
Huernia primulina
Stapeliad with simple, plain star-shaped flowers. toothy stems stay low.
Huernia schneideriana
Long recumbent stems can reach 20″, small burgundy flowers.
Huernia striata
Small compact plant with branches; likes it hot; attractive 3″ striped flowers
Huernia zebrina
Clumps of 6″ stems, erect or recumbent; spotted and striped cream-colored carrion flowers with red centers
Hydnophytum formicarum
Epiphyte w/hollow chambers colonized by ants
Hylocereus
Hybrid epiphytic jungle cacti cultivated and grown for the delicious fruit. Aggressive climbers that can encircle a host tree. Large night-blooming flowers.
Hylocereus “American Beauty”
Vibrant edible red fruit with amazing dense pink flesh. The sweetest of the Dragonfruit. Climbing cactus with fragrant night-blooming white flowers Spring through Fall.
Hylocereus “Kip’s Red”
H. costaricensis “Kip’s Red”
Vibrant edible red fruit with dense pink flesh. Climbing cactus with fragrant night-blooming white flowers Spring through Fall.
Ibervillea lindheimeri
Large white caudex, annual vines, dormant in winter. Vines have long tendrils, small yellow flowers and red berries.
Ihlenfeldtia vanzylii
Pairs of 4″ leaves; Keep dry, winter growing
Ipomoea jaegeri
Erect subsucculent shrub to 3ft. from East Africa
Ipomoea platensis
Large twisted caudex w/12ft. vines, violet flowers
Jatropha capensis
Shrubby with a trunk-like caudex, to 4ft tall. 3-lobed leaves. Yellow flowers. Deciduous in winter.
Jatropha curcas
15ft poisonous shrub. Nut harvested for Bio-diesel
Jatropha integerrima
10ft.shrub, easy to prune. Brilliant red bloom sprays.
Jatropha mcvaughey
Medium shrub with broad thick green leaves, dormant in winter
Jatropha podagrica
Large irregular caudex, stems to 24″; broad leaves, small red blooms
Jensenobotrya lossowiana
Round-leafed Mesemb. White-pink flowers. Forms long draping woody branches with succulent leaves. Mist the leaves occasionally through the growing season. Grows in very rocky soils.
Kalanchoe “Fantastic”
K. thyrsiflora “Fantastic”
Large hybrid multi-colored paddle leaves
Kalanchoe “Red Scallops”
K. fedtschenkoi “Red Scallops”
Shrubby, sprawling stems to 2ft tall, scalloped leaves. Lots of small pink flowers.
Kalanchoe “Thaland”
Shrubby kalanchoe with severely scalloped leaves