Anacampseros herreana
Tiny caudiciform, many branches covered practically solid in white “leaves”. Rare and hard to grow. Light roots, water lightly. Small yellow flowers. Keep dry in winter.
Anacampseros herreana
Tiny caudiciform, many branches covered practically solid in white “leaves”. Rare and hard to grow. Light roots, water lightly. Small yellow flowers. Keep dry in winter.
Branches 1 1/2″ across, 2-3″ h. with hairy rosettes
Small caudex with finger-like branches, white blooms on tips
Large swollen caudex-forming branched tree, to 20 feet tall.
Large swollen caudex-forming branched tree, to 15ft.
Large swollen caudex to 6+ft., 10-15ft. tall.
A stunning slow-growing specimen plant with long thin arching leaves atop thick branches and a swollen trunk. Mature branches send out cream-colored bloom stalks in Spring.
(Pseudobombax ellipticum)
Deciduous tree with succulent stems and large green/brown caudex, can form a tree over 10ft. tall. Large green leaves are smaller and red in full sun.
Abundant thin green pads and bright yellow flowers. Grows tall, tree-like with a large round trunk forming.
Small tree to 6’t. w/swollen base. From Kauai, endangered.
Grows in rocky soils, lots of sun. Bulbous base, narrow green upright leaves. Yellow flowers. Winter growing.
Green narrow leaves. Yellow flowers. Winter growing.
Will form a small underground caudex. Yellow flowers. We grow them outside in the Bay Area year round, hardy if in very fast draining soil, though we don’t know how cold hardy.
Also Bulbine mesembryanthoides
Small fat windowed green leaves with translucent tops. Grows in rocky soils. Winter growing. Goes dormant in summer, often down to the ground. Flowers in spring. Easy to grow in fast draining soils.
Bonsai tree, large caudex w/fragrant sap and peeling bark. Can grow 5ft tall and lots of wild branches. Deciduous in winter.
Freely branching shrub, natural bonsai; papery white bark, small leaflet pairs
Freely branching small tree; peeling bark, small leaflet pairs
Cistanthe grandiflora
Low-mounding shrub with bunches of bright magenta flowers.
Low-mounding shrub with bunches of bright magenta flowers.
Large caudex, 1 to 2 feet, with grassy leaves, winter-growing, outside in Bay Area
Orbea baldratii
Narrow-stemmed Stapeliad with deep burgundy starfish-shaped flowers.
Low-growing, mat-forming Stapeliad with small burgundy carrion-flowers. Will grow best if allowed to go cool in winter, but protect from frost.
Sprawling stems, spider-like carrion flowers. Yemen.
Whitish branches, spreads readily, lots of red flowers on the tips in summer. Bare stems look like bleached coral. Large clumps 10-12″ tall. Rot-prone in winter makes it difficult to keep alive through to spring.
Bottle tree to 50 ft. in ground with dense thorns on trunk. Deciduous.
Caudex develops “pimples,” or fissures, as it ages. In the Cucurbitaceae family, forms wild-growing vines with large lobed green leaves and large yellow-green squash-blossom flowers.
Very slow growing shrub to 6’h. with tiny ovoid green leaves
C. hildmannianus ssp. uruguayanus fa. monstrose “Fairy Castles”
C. peruvianus fa. monstrose
Large clusters of tightly spaced stems, to 2ft tall.
C. peruvianus fa. monstrose
Scalloped columns, blue; varies – some specimens very branchy, tall
C. repandus fa. monstrose “Minima”
Small bumpy columns – varied branchy