Family: Cactaceae
Tropical cactus with long segmented three sided branches, has a sprawling/climbing habit. Night-blooming
Habitat:
Found throughout tropical Central America, the Caribbean, and southern Florida. This plant tends to grow among the branches of larger shrubs and trees where it stems are supported by the surrounding plant growth.
Cultivation:
Well suited to a hanging basket pot, or a vine cage. Should be planted in a well draining media. Can handle ample water in summer, but should be allowed to dry out for long periods during the cold winter months.
Family: Crassulaceae
This hybrid cultivar is a small plant with thick squat branches, and lightly spotted roughly cylindrical succulent white leaves. Large plants can produce a very fat succulent base that could be considered a caudex.
Cultivation:
This is a relatively slow growing plant that does well outdoors in full to part sun, and planted in extremely well draining media. It can receive water throughout the year and should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings.
Synonym: Cotyledon cristata
Family: Crassulaceae
Small plant with thick squat branches, and succulent tapered leaves with a truncate wavy end. Large plants can produce a very fat succulent base that could be considered a caudex.
Habitat:
Endemic to the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, where it is found growing smashed between rock crevices.
Cultivation:
This is a relatively slow growing plant that does well outdoors if protected from excessive winter rain. It is from a summer rainfall region so it should be watered every 1 to 2 weeks from March through October, and kept dryer in the winter. Plant in a well draining cactus and succulent media.
Synonym: Cotyledon maculatus
Family: Crassulaceae
Small plant with thick squat branches, and flat round succulent leaves with dense red spotting towards the tops. Large plants can produce a very fat succulent base that could be considered a caudex.
Habitat:
Found in the Langeberg Mountains of Cape Province, South Africa, growing in rock crevices on cliff faces, usually at high altitudes.
Cultivation:
This is a relatively slow growing plant that does well outdoors in part sun, and planted in extremely well draining media. It is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings.
Stiff, upright w/arching leaves; pink/purple flowers
2ft. terrestrial bromeliad will form large clusters. Stiff yellow-green leaves, small marginal teeth, pinkish bloom stalks.
Long recurved leaves turn bright red when rosette is ready to bloom and will produce many small lavender flowers.
Long curving orange leaves. Vigorous clumper. Red and yellow flower stalks emerge from center plant when mature. Frost sensitive.
Family: Crassulaceae
Red-tipped leaves in sunny locations, green in shade, with multiple 8″ rosettes forming a low mound. Great as a ground cover. Yellow flowers in early spring.
This plant is a possible hybrid selection of A. glutinosum and A. canariense
Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.
A. decorum “Berry Nice”
Family: Crassulaceae
Small Aeonium that forms full mounds of 4″ rosettes. Colorful leaves with red edges and central stripe.
Habitat:
This is a nursery produced cultivar of A. decorum which is originally from the Canary Islands
Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.
A. canariense x A. arboreum
Family: Crassulaceae
Medium Aeonium up to 3ft that forms Dense clumps of green rosettes with a blush color spreading from the edges to the center with more sun. Yellow flowers.
Origin:
This is a cultivar hybrid of A. canariense and A. arboreum originally produced by Jack Catlin in 1976
Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.
Family: Crassulaceae
Medium Aeonium up to 3ft that has thick slightly wavy succulent green leaves forming Broad 18″ rosettes
Origin:
This is a hybrid of Aeonium canariense that was discovered in Santa Barbara.
Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.
Family: Crassulaceae
This is a medium sized Aeonium growing to approximately 3 feet with many branches. Leaves are green with red edges under intense light, can become slightly more green in shaded conditions.
This is a hybrid of A. tabuliforme and A. “Zwartkop”
Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.
Family: Crassulaceae
Large dinner-plate rosettes on thick stalk. Dark purple leaves with a bright green center in full sun. Hybrids available with many branches, but original cultivar is often solitary or with few branches. Giant pyramid of yellow flowers.
Origin:
This is a hybrid of A. undulatum and A. “Zwartkop” that was originally created by Jack Catlin, and distributed in the Huntington Garden’s 1995 issue of the International Succulent Introductions catalog (ISI-95).
Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems
Family: Crassulaceae
Soft green leaves with creamy white margins, flattened rosettes to 8″d. Winter grower, bottom leaves may blush pink in spring before dropping off for summer.
This is a cultivar that was originally created by Renee O’Connell
Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.