{"title":"SUCCULENTS","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"isi-2025-adenium-socotranum","title":"ISI 2025-7 Adenium socotranum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-7 \u003cem\u003eAdenium socotranum\u003c\/em\u003e Vierh.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis extreme succulent has been much in demand, especially since a photo of magnificent specimens in habitat made the cover of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCactus and Succulent Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in Sep-Oct., 2000. Since then, some unscrupulous vendors have tried to pass off \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. obesum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e or A. arabicum\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as the Socotran species. Those others are at least easier to grow than \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. socotranum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. We have managed to sustain a plant field-collected by John Lavranos in 1967 by keeping it in a small pot in our Conservatory and watering carefully. Thirty years later, Lavranos was able to return to Socotra with German botanist Bruno Mies who has done botanical research on the island every year since 1993. He was able to collect seed of the adenium in 1997. Seedlings from this collection were distributed in 2004 as ISI 2004-5.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Success in cultivation with these has been in warm greenhouse conditions where minimum temperatures do not go below about 50°F or warmer, or by growing them outdoors in more tropical climates like that of southern Taiwan or Thailand. This allows the plants to tolerate regular watering, though less when dormant. Nevertheless, plants tend to grow up before they grow out, creating pachycauls with long, tapering, solitary trunks. Joe Stead has been particularly successful in growing healthy compact plants in his greenhouses at Orange Coast College and has offered the current crop for ISI distribution. His conditions, with minimum night temperatures of about 70°F, seem to promote rapid thickening. There is no confusion about their identity. They were grown from seed from hand-pollination under controlled conditions of three plants from seed from the same collection as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Adenium socotranum seedling\" href=\"https:\/\/media.huntington.org\/ISI\/ISI2004\/2004-05.html\"\u003eISI 2004-5\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e: Bruno Mies # 667 (not 676 as originally published), seed collected March 17, 1997, ca. 120m above sea level, near the village of Di-Ishal at the N end of Wadi di Faroh, Socotra. These very plants are the subject of the article about propagation of this species in the Summer 2025 issue of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. We offer this next generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217994895618,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-07.jpg?v=1779135154"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aeonium-aureum","title":"ISI 2025-8 Aeonium aureum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-8 \u003cem\u003eAeonium aureum\u003c\/em\u003e (C.Sm. ex Hornem.) T.Mes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe stemless \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAeonium\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e species with attractive, urn-shaped dormant rosettes were formerly placed in the genus \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreenovia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, now considered a synonym of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAeonium\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Therefore, one will often see this plant in the literature or online as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGreenovia aurea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. It is found on several of the Canary Islands but this offering traces its lineage to Gran Canaria where the species is reported to form impressive, large rosettes to 30 cm diameter! We offer HBG 142014, later generation plants from open-pollinated, selfed seed. The dust-like seed was sown January 4, 2023.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996239106,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-08.jpg?v=1779135083"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aeonium-lavransonii-newtonii","title":"ISI 2025-9 Aeonium lavranosii-newtonii","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-9 \u003cem\u003eAeonium lavranosii-newtonii \u003c\/em\u003eMellie Lewis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe publication of this distinctive species has been a long time coming. In the interim it has become established in cultivation and can be found on the internet erroneously identified as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. leucoblepharum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. It differs from most other aeoniums in its leaves having a persistent red midstripe and the tendency of the rest of the leaf to blush an attractive pinkish or orangish color. While ciliate, like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. leucoblepharum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the so-called eyelash aeonium, the cilia, rather than being hairlike, are curved, glassy, inflated, translucent, hook-like structures, reminiscent under magnification of the early stages of the sporulating slime mold, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePilobolus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Its distribution is restricted to northern Yemen while \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. leucoblepharum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is found in E. Africa including Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Uganda, and probably South Sudan as well, according to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAeonium\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e authority Marco Cristini. On October 1, 1976, noted botanists and succulent explorers John Lavranos and Len Newton found this plant (L\u0026amp;N 13084) at the top of Sumara Pass on the road from Sana’a to Hodeida, Yemen. A year later, Lavranos returned with Gerald Barad and collected the species in another nearby gorge below the Himyarartic Fort above Sumara Pass (L\u0026amp;B 15996). This is HBG 39507, distributed as ISI 1730 (as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. leucoblepharum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e var. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eleucoblepharum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), listed as Barad \u0026amp; Lavranos 15996, collected September 27, 1977, according to Mellie Lewis in the description of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. lavranosii-newtonii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, at 2500 m above Sumara Pass. Fast forward to October, 2007, when the Huntington hosted its annual Orchid Festival. Local florists, Bob and Stella Berry created a magnificent large-scale arrangement on the Huntington Gallery Loggia. Included were rosettes of this plant which I begged off of them after the show. I tentatively identified it as a form of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAeonium decorum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which can also have leaves with a red midstripe but usually only on juvenile plants. In order to distinguish this form, I called it \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAeonium decorum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ‘Berry Nice’ in honor of our source and with a nod to its lovely, blushed color. This is the name under which it was marketed at our sales and by wholesale grower San Marcos Growers. Subsequently, I realized that we had long-standing mass plantings of the species in our Desert Garden. However, there was no accession record for Aeonium ‘Berry Nice’. After some sleuthing of our records, it became apparent that we had been growing two of the three Lavranos collections of this species: Lavranos \u0026amp; Newton 13082 (not an HBG accession), Lavranos \u0026amp; Barad 15996 (HBG 39507), and Lavranos 16227 (HBG 39962). Though labels rusted or were lost in the intervening years, the Huntington shared material with other growers and nurseries so that the species became established in southern California horticulture and made its way into the Berry’s floral arrangement. We are pleased to be able to offer rooted cuttings of this Yemeni species. Alas, we cannot be certain which Lavranos number applies. Nevertheless, we can be certain that this is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. lavranosii-newtonii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e from the Sumara Pass area, Yemen. The genetic diversity of plants in cultivation and the wild has yet to be studied but those grown in the U.S. and Europe seem to be quite uniform and may constitute one predominant clone. We offer it under a new accession number.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996271874,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-09.jpg?v=1779134971"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aloe-corazon-adriente","title":"ISI 2025-10 Aloe 'Corazon Ardiente'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-10 \u003cem\u003eAloe \u003c\/em\u003e'Corazon Ardiente' K.Zimmerman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is one of two aloe hybrids to be introduced this year by Karen Zimmerman and our top-notch tissue culture team. “Corazón ardiente” means “blazing heart” in Spanish, and it perfectly reflects the colors of this plant sparked not only by heat and bright light, but also cool, short days when growth slows down. Colors range from pinkish red to golden orange, like a romantic sunset. The intense colors are concentrated on the crowded ridged surface teeth, while the leaf margins are fringed with small, reddish-orange teeth. The photos here show the colors achieved when grown in our greenhouse. With brighter outdoor light, the colors will be even stronger! We offer rooted offsets from tissue culture of HBG 143915.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996304642,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-10.jpg?v=1779134455"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aloe-gwen","title":"ISI 2025-11 Aloe 'Gwen'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-11 \u003cem\u003eAloe \u003c\/em\u003e'Gwen' J.Trager\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn November, 2007, I [John Trager] visited the San Marino garden of Gwen Babcock, a dear friend and supporter of the Huntington’s Desert Collections. I was interested in checking on a succulent installation we had worked on a few years before. Many of the plants thrived on a south facing slope that received some dappled morning and afternoon shade. Not all of the plants performed as well as hoped, so Gwen made a few substitutions over the years. One addition was a clumping aloe with attractive, compact racemes of orange flowers. It appeared to be a form of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloe camperi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e but with flowers in November. This represented a highly desirable extension of the flowering season for this species. We grow other forms that typically flower in April or, with the cultivar ‘May Day’, as late as the month of May! The plant did well in a container in our shade house, gradually increasing in size and beauty. Finally, in March of 2016, the plant had filled a 10\" pot and was demanding more root room. We planted it at the bottom of the Desert Garden along the edge of the road that borders the west side of the Desert Garden and separates it from the Lily Ponds across the road. It thrived there and its cheery orange flowers were a nice complement to the orange fruits of the jelly palm, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eButia capitata\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, that partly shades the bed. The plant proliferated over the next few years until we were able divide it and make a more impressive mass in this bed. When in flower, it never fails to impress with its tidy racemes and vivid color inspiring many who see it to photograph the scene. The rest of the year the low growing rosettes, only a foot or so tall, showed no tendency toward tip die-back or other blemishes, nor any sensitivity to the occasional frost experienced during winter in this part of the garden. Instead, it presents clean foliage with attractive white spotting and margins with prominent teeth that color up a glossy reddish-roan color. By 2023 the mass was becoming dense with offsetting clumps, affording the opportunity to divide and spread it around. The timing was convenient as we needed some showy material for the design of the new rockeries of volcanic scoria that we had just installed in the upper Desert Garden. We were delighted to find that not only did it flower spectacularly in November and December, as expected, but flowering persisted into the spring. The stemless, clumping rosettes suggested to visiting aloe expert Tom McCoy that this was a hybrid of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. camperi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, perhaps with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. zubb\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, accounting for its repeat blooming. The cultivar name still stands and can serve to honor anyone named Gwen that you may be fond of. The plant has proven to be an ideal choice for small landscapes where it earns its keep with a long-lasting floral show and ease of care. Therefore, we initiated the plant into tissue culture to expedite this offering. Rooted plants of HBG 119912.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996370178,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-11.jpg?v=1779134298"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aloe-hanky-panky","title":"ISI 2025-12 Aloe 'Hanky Panky'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-12 \u003cem\u003eAloe \u003c\/em\u003e'Hanky Panky'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis little troublemaker is the sibling of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ‘Hodge Podge’ (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/media.huntington.org\/ISI\/ISI2023\/2023-09.html\" title=\"Aloe ‘Hodge Podge’\"\u003eISI 2023-9\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). At the time, Karen struggled to decide between the two, as 'Hodge Podge' sports an eclectic mosaic of toothy textures but isn’t as colorful as 'Hanky Panky'. 'Hodge Podge' also has a cleaner growth habit (read fewer pesky offsets). However, Hanky has not faded with age, nor has it stopped vying for attention. Its deep, ruddy, red-orange coloring is difficult to ignore, and it has some of the same funky tooth clusters that distinguish ‘Hodge Podge’. Karen finally relented and decided to add her to our ISI family. We offer rooted offsets from tissue culture of HBG 143916.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996435714,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-12.jpg?v=1779134189"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aloe-labworana","title":"ISI 2025-13 Aloe labworana 'Gold Dust'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-13 \u003cem\u003eAloe labworana\u003c\/em\u003e 'Gold Dust' J.Trager\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis uncommon species seemed to enter southern California horticulture only in the last decade or so. This was due to the introductions made by Thomas Cole of Cold Springs Aloes, in Montecito, CA. He encountered the species in the course of his travels as a humanitarian aid worker in remote parts of Africa. He donated some of his collections to the Huntington and we grew to appreciate the ornamental species he was bringing to the attention of succulent collectors. Among these was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloe labworana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a species from Uganda and southern Sudan with showy panicles of yellow flowers borne on divergent racemes. While producing their \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloes of Uganda: A Field Guide\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2017) Cole and Forrest described \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloe labworana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e subsp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003elongifolia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which differs from the type subspecies in having longer, unspotted and more uniformly blue-green leaves. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. labworana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e subsp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003elabworana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e has leaves of a similar color but ornamented with lenticular (shaped like a lens when viewed in cross section) spots. These markings can vary in color from greenish to yellow. The selection offered here stands out for its especially colorful yellow spotting that complements the color of its flowers. New leaves also display waxy, milky, bud imprints. We offer plants from tissue culture of HBG 124741, a plant from Tom Cole, November 2, 2015, from seed collected in Uganda; Abim District; Labwor Hills, near Kiru.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996468482,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-13b.jpg?v=1779134120"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aloe-retrospiciens","title":"ISI 2025-14 Aloe retrospiciens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-14 \u003cem\u003eAloe retrospiciens\u003c\/em\u003e Reynolds \u0026amp; P.R.O. Bally\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis rarely cultivated aloe is native to limited areas of N Somalia and SE Ethiopia. It is a small arborescent species to about 1.25 m (about 4') tall. It can be solitary or branched from the base to form 2- to 6-branched colonies. We haven’t grown our plants to maturity but look forward to seeing the flowers which are described as being secund (arranged along the tops of the racemes) and pointed backwards on a broad panicle. An inflorescence of a plant given to the Huntington was initiated into tissue culture, May 26, 2021. The inflorescence came from a plant of Daniel Gledhill’s which he received from Alexandre Viossat. Viossat grew his from controlled pollination of plants grown from Giuseppe Orlando collection GO 230804, seed collected November 8, 2003, at 860 m altitude, about 60 km NNE of Boorama, Somalia. We offer plants from tissue culture of HBG 139277.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996501250,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-14.jpg?v=1779134028"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-aloe-sinana","title":"ISI 2025-15 Aloe sinana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-15 \u003cem\u003eAloe sinana\u003c\/em\u003e Reynolds\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn April and May of 1956, aloe authority Gilbert Westacott Reynolds travelled over 3,000 miles through Eritrea and Ethiopia investigating aloes. Ten species encountered were subsequently described as new to science. Samples of four of these were sent back to Johannesburg to flower and be described later. Six, including this one, were published the following year in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSouth African Journal of Botany\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (SAJB 23(1): 3 -5, 1957). Like the more familiar \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. camperi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e which is also of Ethiopian origin, the related \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. sinana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e seems to be particularly well suited to cultivation in southern California. It is larger than \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. camperi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, with longer leaves featuring attractive lenticular spots and reddish, toothy margins. It also bears more slender, taller inflorescences characterized by its flowers spreading horizontally or slightly downwards. These are clavate as in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. camperi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. We received two plants from Thomas Cole, November 2, 2016. These were planted in the lower Desert Garden June, 2017. Both flowered in 2021 and the inflorescences were bagged to exclude uncontrolled pollination. The flowers were subsequently hand-pollinated from June to July, 2021. The seed was sown October 15, 2021. These are now large enough for this offering, HBG 145784, from controlled pollination of HBG 127286, T. Cole 13013, from seed collected in Ethiopia; Amhara District; 10 km N of Debre Sina, the place for which the species is named. According to Reynolds, this is in the heart of the dense population and near the type locality which Reynolds designated in his original description as 18 km NE of Debre Sina.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996534018,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-15g.jpg?v=1779133964"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-boswellia-sacra","title":"ISI 2025-16 Boswellia sacra","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-16 \u003cem\u003eBoswellia sacra \u003c\/em\u003eFlück\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe aromatic resin produced from this plant has been prized since antiquity and is the precious commodity known as frankincense, well known for its association with the Biblical account as among the treasures brought by the Magi to celebrate the birth of Christ. The plant is native to Somalia, Arabia, and Oman where it is loosely cultivated to this day for a variety of uses but the resin is primarily burned as incense in religious ceremonies. It also happens to be a small tree in the Burseraceae with interesting branching character, and peeling, parchment-like bark. It is well suited to cultivation in desert environments where frosts are limited. Gene Joseph of Plants for the Southwest has had success growing and propagating the plant from seed in his climate of Tucson, AZ, and has provided this crop for distribution through ISI. We offer HBG 145785, plants from seed sown in July, 2023.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996566786,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-16d.jpg?v=1779133806"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-ceropegia-africana","title":"ISI 2025-17 Ceropegia africana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-17 \u003cem\u003eCeropegia africana \u003c\/em\u003eR.Br.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe genus \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCeropegia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in the strict sense, ranges from Africa through SE Asia to northern Australia. It was published by Linnaeus in 1753 for the Indian species \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eC. candelabrum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e but the African species \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eC. africana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was not published until 1822. Well known in cultivation is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eC. africana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e subsp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ebarklyi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the popular String of Hearts, or Rosary Vine. The subspecies \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eafricana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in contrast, has leaves with linear, fleshy, nearly terete leaf blades. It also produces tuberous swellings at the nodes that can eventually become small, spherical, potato-like structures to 2\" or more in diameter. These have been recommended for use as grafting stock for difficult-to-maintain stapeliads but we have had limited success with this technique. It is also recommended that tubers should be rooted on their sides so that grafts can be made on top while leaving some of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCeropegia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e vines to grow out the side to sustain the stock and scion. The floriferous vines, with small but exotic-looking flowers, can be grown up a trellis or allowed to sprawl from a hanging basket. We offer rooted tubers of HBG 138903, originally collected in September, 1998, by Derek Tribble as tubers growing in deep shade in leaf litter, 10km S of Robertson, W. Cape, S. Africa.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996599554,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-17.jpg?v=1779133667"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-cotyledon-pendens","title":"ISI 2025-18 Cotyledon pendens","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn December, 2023, I came across this charming plant in a local nursery. It made a delightful hanging basket so I bought it for the Huntington and set about researching the name. It turns out that it was described in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 40:2:2003 by our friend and colleague, Ernst van Jaarsveld. In his explorations 20 years earlier for cliff-dwelling succulents, he explored the Mbashe River of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. One of his finds, first spotted on the cliffs using binoculars, was this species with compact, pillow-like grayish leaves with red distal margins and comparatively large, pendent, red, bell-shaped flowers. A few pieces were dislodged with some well-tossed stones. These grew and flowered at Kirstenbosch in 2002. It is known only from the type locality, cliffs along the Mbashe River, Transkei, Eastern Cape, South Africa. HBG 143997.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996632322,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-18c.jpg?v=1779133593"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-dioscorea-hemicrypta","title":"ISI 2025-19 Dioscorea hemicrypta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe genus \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDioscorea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e includes over 600 species from around the world. Only a handful of these are succulent caudiciforms and are primarly South African with the exception of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eD. Mexicana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which is superficially similar to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eD. elephantipes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e but with a flatter, tortoise-shell-like caudex. It may at first come as a surprise that the Dioscoreaceae is a monocot family, but their usually broad, cordate leaves exhibit the parallel venation characteristic of monocots. Furthermore, the small flowers have 6 tepals in two series, and the fruits are 3-angled. Propagation is complicated by the fact that plants are unisexual, so one often needs to grow several to be assured of having a mated pair. We had a small crop of seedlings of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eD. hemicrypta\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e that we bedded out at the base of a fence serving as a trellis for the climbing vines. It was easily distinguished from other \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDioscorea\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e species planted nearby by its smaller, mature leaves which are glaucous and ovate, the size and silhouette of an olive. Juvenile leaves of seedlings, however, are more typical of the genus, bright green and cordate. Corky caudexes develop at the base. These are described by Rowley and Eggli in their treatment in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIllustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants, Vol. 2, Second Edition, 2020\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, as half-buried, “the underground part amorphously lobed like molten lava, above ground part with thick corky irregular ridges and plates.” We have found that caudexes of young plants are smooth as they begin to swell above ground but eventually develop impressive, tuberculate caudexes much like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eD. elephantipes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e but of a darker, grayish color. We offer second generation seedlings, HBG 145786, derived originally from seed (HBG 122819) collected by Gerard Marx in S. Africa; W. Cape; 5 km S of Volmoed.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217996665090,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-19.jpg?v=1779133328"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-echeveria-madiba","title":"ISI 2025-20 Echeveria 'Madiba'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis remarkable hybrid came to our attention only recently. It has proven to be a clean grower, easily propagated from leaves but matures slowly into a blemish free rosette to 6\" across. What is remarkable is the firmness of the leaves, more like the tubercles of an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAriocarpus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e than the usually soft-fleshy echeverias. We acquired the plant from a local vendor under the name ‘Silver Ruffles’, coined by another grower who thought it was too good not to have a cultivar name. This was in reference to the opalescent coloring and the leaf margins that become more undulate in mature plants. We were able to trace the source of the plant back to one of the largest wholesale nurseries in Vista, CA, Western Cactus Growers. According to Thomas Britsch, President of Western Cactus, they acquired it from a distributor in Kenya as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEcheveria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 'Madiba'. The cultivar name is the Xhosa clan to which Nelson Mandela belonged and was also used as his nickname. The cultivar name was chosen in his honor, a fitting name reflecting the plants endurance and dignified bearing. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eE.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ‘Madiba’ is a chance hybrid that originated in the nursery of Paco Serrano in Spain. It was found among seedlings of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eE. lilacina\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, but it is uncertain whether that is the seed parent. The pollen parent is also a matter of conjecture, but the epidermal character and the plants hardiness suggest \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eE. agavoides\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. We offer rooted plants of HBG 142591.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217998336258,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-20b.jpg?v=1779133178"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-euphorbia-caducifolia","title":"ISI 2025-21 Euphorbia caducifolia","description":"\u003cp\u003eISI 2025-21 \u003cem\u003eEuphorbia caducifolia \u003c\/em\u003eHaines\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis spinescent shrub is widespread throughout India and Pakistan where it often creates natural barriers or is planted as a hedge. It forms a shrub to 3 m with stout, cylindrical, terminal joints about 5 cm (1\") diameter. These are armed with loose spirals of short, stout pairs of stipular spines that subtend prominent, circular, tan leaf scars in the midst of the dark thorn shields that age to tan. These contrast with the green epidermis, as do the often reddish cyathia that are produced in spring. Our plants were grown from seed in 2009, then further propagated vegetatively. We offer rooted cuttings of HBG 122956, from seed collected in Andra Pradesh, India.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46217999352066,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-21b.jpg?v=1779133131"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-euphorbia-granticola","title":"ISI 2025-22 Euphorbia granticola","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis species is native to Mozambique where it grows on exposed, granitic slopes. It forms shrubs to 2 m with ascending branches emerging from a stout trunk to 12 cm diameter that is almost caudiciform. However, as with similar species, rooted cuttings of lateral branches may not thicken to form a trunk in the same way as seed-grown plants. The branches are bright green with contiguous, whitish thorn shields on the ribs. We offer rooted cuts of HBG 106787, four plants originally grown from seed by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEuphorbia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e enthusiast Seymour Linden, perhaps from seed collected by Dave Richards, the Zimbabwean collector who was a source of many interesting euphorbias Seymour introduced into cultivation. Both are long passed but live on in our collections. The four clones we’ve propagated show some variation in the character of the leaves that line the ribs of the new growth. Clones 1 and 2 have elliptical, acute leaves over an inch long. Clone 3 has shorter leaves curved downward, like long fingernails, while Clone 4 has straight leaves like Clones 1 and 2 but about half as long.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218000367874,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-22.jpg?v=1779133013"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-euphorbia-rowlandii","title":"ISI 2025-23 Euphorbia rowlandii","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis elegant euphorbia has been in cultivation since shortly after its description by Dyer in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBothalia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 7(1): 28 – 29 (1958). It has been mostly grown by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEuphorbia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e specialists and Botanical Gardens but is deserving of wider distribution. Mature plants in habitat are low shrubs 1 to 2 m tall, branching primarily from the base to produce a mass of ascending, jointed branches. The joints are thickest where they initiate and gradually taper to the next joint. This and the finely speckled epidermis make even a rooted cutting an attractive specimen. Furthermore, the 5 to 6 ribs are lined with continuous pale thorn shields bearing paired spines every centimeter or so, and bright yellow cyathia in the spring. We offer rooted cuttings of HBG 45128, a plant received from Grigsby’s Cactus Garden, February, 1981. It is known only from northern Limpopo Province, South Africa, and perhaps adjacent Zimbabwe. Much of its range is contained within Kruger National Park. The first recorded specimen of the species was made in 1949 by Dr. L. E. Codd. Flowering and fruiting material was subsequently provided to Dyer by Lt. Col. Rowland Jones, then in charge of the northern sector of Kruger National Park, after whom the species was named.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218001383682,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-23b.jpg?v=1779132931"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-euphorbia-serendipitia","title":"ISI 2025-24 Euphorbia serendipita","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-24 \u003cem\u003eEuphorbia serendipita \u003c\/em\u003eL.E.Newton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis species was found serendipitously (hence the name) by Len Newton, June 5,1988, while returning to Nairobi from an outing to the Rift Valley. As it was late in the day, there was only time for a hasty collection of a few cuttings. One of these rooted and grew in Len’s Nairobi garden. Susan Carter saw it growing there in 1990 and suggested that it was probably an undescribed species. Len returned to the locality a couple of months later and sufficient study was completed to describe the species in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCactus and Succulent Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 65(3):111-112 (1993). We offer rooted cuttings of HBG 100904, a plant imported by Seymour Linden in June, 1994, with the following data: Ernst Specks 2366, collected at the type locality, in the Emart Olkimpai Hills near Nairobi, 8 km E of Elangata Waus, 1470 m. The slender stems tend to grow tall and become top heavy. By topping them, branching can be induced to create little miniature trees with a classic saguaro-like silhouette.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218001416450,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-24c.jpg?v=1779132796"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-gasteria-batesiana","title":"ISI 2025-25 Gasteria batesiana","description":"\u003cp\u003eISI 2025-25\u003ci\u003e Gasteria batesiana \u003c\/i\u003eG.D.Rowley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGasteria batesiana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is arguably the most popular member of this genus. Its formal description by Gordon Rowley was not until 1955, but without information about its origin. According to the British CSS webpage about this plant, the epithet honors John T. Bates (1884-1966), a trolley bus conductor in London and an avid collector of South African succulents. The clonotype is now thought to have been collected by Frank Frith of the South African Railways in 1924 and reached Europe some years later. It has become the nearly ubiquitous representative of this \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e-allied group in collections and general horticulture as a container succulent tolerant of low light and neglect. But a well grown specimen in brighter light can truly be a thing of beauty when it blushes reddish and develops especially rough and rigid leaves. The affinity of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGasteria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAloe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is confirmed by many intergeneric hybrids, placed in the nothogenus x\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eGasteraloe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, but these are a dead end to further hybridization, as they are typically sterile. The most commonly cultivated form of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eG. batesiana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e happens to be the one distributed as ISI 460 in 1965, but again without habitat information. It appears identical to the clonotype illustrated in Rowley’s description. This stands out for its tapering leaves with beautiful patterning of smaller white surface tubercles with larger dark green ones matching the ground color of the leaf. Other forms have since been introduced with more parallel sided leaves and varying patterning and color, some blushed red to purple. Here we offer several sibling forms with varying degrees of these features. Divisions of HBG 107025, Clones 1 through 8, ex Sheilam Cactus Farm, near Robertson, W. Cape, S. Africa, imported in 2002. These were grown from seed collected at Barberton, Mpumalanga, S. Africa.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218002465026,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-25.jpg?v=1779132712"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-haworthia-maraisii","title":"ISI 2025-26 Haworthia maraisii","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-26 \u003cem\u003eHaworthia maraisii\u003c\/em\u003e Poelln.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSometimes treated as a variety of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eH. mirabilis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, this distinctive entity is here treated as the species pending resolution of its rather confused taxonomy and resulting nomenclature. It is characterized by its miniature rosettes of dark, blue-green, retuse leaves with a scabrous surface. The rosettes are particularly dwarfed in the form offered here, only 2 cm in diameter and slowly offsetting to form a clump. We offer divisions of HBG 120289, purchased at the Karoo Botanical Garden (KBG 148\/2000), Worcester, S. Africa, in 2002. The clone was originally collected by Dr. V. B. Reddi (821) without locality data, but the species is widespread in the Robertson District, W. Cape, S. Africa.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218002497794,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-26.jpg?v=1779132634"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-haworthia-retusa","title":"ISI 2025-27 Haworthia retusa 'Owen'","description":"\u003cp\u003eISI 2025-27\u003ci\u003e Haworthia retusa \u003c\/i\u003e'Owen' S.Uheyara\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaworthia retusa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a favorite for its broadly retuse, windowed leaves, and vigorous, clean growth. This variegated selection is consistent with that characterization despite its pallor that makes one wonder how it has enough chlorophyll to perform as well as it does. We received the plant in 2010 from nurseryman Bill Baker who acquired it from Hawaiian nurseryman Stefan Uyehara. Stefan named the plant in honor of his brother, who first spotted this sport in Stefan’s nursery about 40 years ago, but it was never introduced. We are pleased to offer another of Stefan’s excellent selections. See \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrassula capitella\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e subsp. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ethyrsiflora\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ‘Tsurue Scarlet Coral’, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Crassula capitella subsp. thyrsiflora\" href=\"https:\/\/media.huntington.org\/ISI\/ISI2015\/2015-21.html\"\u003eISI 2015-21\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. We offer divisions of HBG 134398.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218002563330,"sku":null,"price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-27.jpg?v=1779132553"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-lachenalia-pusilla","title":"ISI 2025-28 Lachenalia pusilla","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-28 \u003cem\u003eLachenalia pusilla \u003c\/em\u003eJacq.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis genus of South African bulbs is not usually considered to be succulent. Ernst van Jaarsveld lists only four “weakly succulent” species in his treatment for the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIllustrated Handbook of Succulents, Monocotyledons, Vol. 2, Second Edition\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, though Graham Duncan lists 133 species in his 2012 monograph, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Genus Lachenalia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Nevertheless, these plants often grow in association with succulents and are compatible companions, especially for those from the winter-rainfall areas of South Africa and Namibia. The genus is named in honor of Swiss botanist Werner de Lachenal (1736 – 1800). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLachenalia pusilla\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is named for its small stature. It forms a rosette of 3 – 8 (12) leaves that lie flat on the ground. These are elliptical, 20 – 55mm long by 5 – 20 mm wide, dark or glaucous green and spotted with purple. Flowers are white and in a compact, shaving-brush-like raceme nestled in the center of the rosette. The sweet, spicy scent of the flowers by day and the brush of white stamens attracts bee pollinators while the yeasty aroma of the flowers at night suggests rodent pollination as well. Inflorescences detach when dry and are carried by the wind like miniature tumbleweeds that disperse the seed. Seeds are more locally distributed by ants. The species is therefore widespread from near Cape Agulhas (the southernmost point of the African continent) north to the Clanwilliam area of the Western Cape. We offer HBG 137465, plants from seed sown September 26, 2016. The seed was produced by Steven Hammer on a plant originally collected by John Lavranos (29738) in 1995: S. Africa; W. Cape; 18 km N of Piekenierskloof on the road to Citrusdal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218002596098,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-28b.jpg?v=1779132497"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-xmangave-tracy-paz","title":"ISI 2025-29 xMangave 'Tracy Paz'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-29 x\u003cem\u003eMangave\u003c\/em\u003e 'Tracy Paz' K. Zimmerman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBesides being known for her popular dwarf aloe hybrids, Karen Zimmerman sometimes dabbles with hybridization of other genera. This is the first mangave hybrid she has introduced. x\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMangave\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ‘Tracy Paz’ is named for one of Karen’s dearest friends, who is an accomplished artist and loves agaves. Karen crossed one of her favorite agave species, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. parrasana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eManfreda maculosa\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, which not only has beautifully spotted foliage, but also a lovely flower color progression: white buds opening to pink, and aging to burgundy. We planted 72 seedlings in the narrow bed along the shade house in our nursery for evaluation. There was quite a range to choose from, but Karen was hoping for a hybrid that looked most like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. parrasana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e but with purple spots. All of them have spots, but Clone 50 stood out overall, and while not a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eparrasana\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e look-alike, it forms a lovely rosette to about 3 ft across with waxy blue-white leaves aging to grey green with lots of purple-red spots and splashes. The inflorescence was a standout as well, being a more compact panicle, about 6 ft tall, with a dense cloud of yellow flowers. We offer rooted plants from tissue culture of HBG 145787.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218002628866,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-29.jpg?v=1779132401"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-sedum-jurgensenii","title":"ISI 2025-30 Sedum jurgensenii","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-30 \u003cem\u003eSedum jurgensenii\u003c\/em\u003e (Hemsl.) Moran\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis species was originally described as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCotyledon jurgensenii\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Hemsley in 1878 but only transferred to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSedum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e by Reid Moran in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaseltonia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 4 (1996). The species is described as variously hispidulous, that is, covered with short, stiff, bristly hairs. It possesses another distinction among the genus Sedum in having n=23, the same number of chromosomes as in the human genome. The foliage is also strongly dimorphic. During winter dormancy, the plant forms compact, spindle-shaped branchlets with tightly appressed, imbricated, ascending leaves. These branchlets can become dislodged and serve as propagules which spill around the parent plant to form colonies. In spring, these take root and elongate into a very different, rather lax succulent. The flowers are white, with five recurved petals and are produced in the fall on elongated summer shoots with spreading leaves. We received it from Myron Kimnach with his collection number 3402. Unfortunately, we never received his field notes with the sequence including this collection. Therefore, we do not have the data that accompanies this number. Perhaps Myron shared this collection with other students of the Crassulaceae and the data is on record somewhere and will find its way to us. In the meantime, we offer rooted plants of HBG 109487, from Myron Kimnach (MK 3402) in 2012. The species is widespread in central Mexico, at 1100-2900m.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218002661634,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-30.jpg?v=1779132359"},{"product_id":"isi-2025-sulcolluma-shadhbana","title":"ISI 2025-31 Sulcolluma shadhbana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2025-31 \u003cem\u003eSulcolluma shadhbana \u003c\/em\u003e(Lavranos) Plowes\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSucculents in the milkweed family (formerly the Asclepiadaceae, now combined with the Apocynaceae) have wonderfully diverse flowers despite their apparent, five-petaled simplicity. This floral diversity is their primary appeal as collectable ornamentals. This is despite their often-challenging cultural requirements. It is also responsible for considerable attention from taxonomists through history and the resultant controversies regarding classification and naming. For small plants often found creeping in the shade of other vegetation, and their propensity to have fetid-smelling flowers to attract fly pollinators, this level of attention may seem disproportionate. One is reminded of the famous quote by British biologist J. B. S. Haldane (1892-1964) regarding the diversity of beetle species; The Creator “must have an inordinate fondness for beetles.” One could paraphrase that ‘taxonomists have an inordinate fondness for stapeliads’ based on the taxonomic controversies they have engendered. This offering provides a case in point. It was first described by Lavranos as a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaralluma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Fl. Pl. Africa 44(3-4): t. 1743 (1977). Nearly a couple of decades later, in his attempt to bring some sense to this very diverse genus, Darrel Plowes split the genus into 16, placing this species in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSulcolluma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, distinguished by tubercles with a flattened, epaulet-like upper surface, often grooved (i.e. with a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003esulcus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e) and tipped with tiny, fugacious leaves. This recognized a useful diagnostic characteristic for the new genus. In a dramatic swing in the lumping direction a dozen years later, Peter Bruyns transferred it, along with all the other stapeliad genera (!), into the megagenus \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCeropegia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Current treatments have come down somewhere in the middle. The 2002 treatment of the family in the Asclepiadaceae volume of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eIllustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, considers this taxon to be a synonym of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCaralluma hexagona\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, albeit with the comment that this is “An extremely variable species, which can possibly be split up into several taxa” [again!]. Meanwhile, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003ePlants of the World Online\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e chooses to place it in another Plowes genus, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonolluma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMonolluma hexagona\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. We are choosing to offer it as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSulcolluma\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in honor of the ease of recognition of its stem morphology, and the original distinction by Lavranos. We offer rooted cuts of HBG 48485, a plant received December 5, 2014 from Myron Kimnach (2001.17). This has proven to be an unusually durable stapeliad, tolerating standard succulent care among other succulents and cacti in our greenhouse where temperatures range into the triple digits in summer and down to the 40s°F in winter. This is J. Lavranos \u0026amp; S. Collenette 20440A collected April, 1982: Saudi Arabia; Jabal Fayfa, 71 km NE of Jizan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46218002694402,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/isi2025-31.jpg?v=1779132247"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-aeonoium-ciliatum-pinwheel","title":"ISI 2026-7 Aeonium ciliatum 'Pinwheel'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-7. \u003cem\u003eAeonium ciliatum\u003c\/em\u003e 'Pinwheel' K. Zimmerman. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2007 the ISI distributed HBG 81087, a collection of \u003cem\u003eAeonium ciliatum\u003c\/em\u003e Webb \u0026amp; Berthel. collected by former staff member Nora Barboza. That was her collection #752, made March 2, 1997, in the Canary Islands, at the northern tip of the island of Tenerife, in the Anaga Mtns., at 910 m. elevation. The plant occasionally reseeded itself in our shade house for a few years after ISI distribution. In 2009, Karen Zimmerman spied this unusual vegetative form in a seedling among our epiphytic cacti that occupy one side of the shade house. It had rosettes of leaves twisted counterclockwise resembling a pinwheel. This is due to the usually oblique shape of the leaves with the right margin longer, curved, and falcate. The shorter margin is notched below the middle giving the leaf blade a shape like the blade of a medieval halberd, a battle axe with a spike. The pinwheel is a gentler allusion and though the leaves are quite thick and immobile one can almost imagine them spinning in the winds of time. Occasionally leaves are straighter with hook-like notches on both sides of the leaf. Like the parent species, the leaves are gray green but with only scattered, minute teeth along the margins. The plant is much slower growing than the normal form, so it has taken some time to propagate for this distribution. However, it is quite stable, never having reverted to resemble a normal \u003cem\u003eAeonium ciliatum\u003c\/em\u003e Webb \u0026amp; Berthel. in all the years since its appearance. We offer rooted rosettes of HBG 126946. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762732876034,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/Aeonium_ciliatum_Pinwheel.png?v=1778623170"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-aloe-baby-grand","title":"ISI 2026-8 Aloe 'Baby Grand'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-8. Aloe 'Baby Grand' J. Bleck. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis fine, flowering miniature represents the last of the John Bleck hybrids to be introduced from his Collector Series. While most of those were introduced long ago, this one has been slower to propagate and is offered now in tribute to this great plantsman who passed away just shy of his 92nd birthday in April 2025. Some of John's notable aloe hybrids include \u003cem\u003eAloe  \u003c\/em\u003e'Lizard Lips', \u003cem\u003eAloe  \u003c\/em\u003e'Cha Cha', and \u003cem\u003eAloe  \u003c\/em\u003e'Brass Hat'. These mostly resulted from his hybridization project when he was the Greenhouse Manager at UC Santa Barbara in the 1980s. His goal was to create dwarf, repeat-blooming aloes which were, therefore, derived from dwarf, floriferous Madagascan species like \u003cem\u003eAloe descoingsii\u003c\/em\u003e Reynolds,\u003cem\u003e A. bakeri\u003c\/em\u003e Scott Elliot, \u003cem\u003eA. boiteaui\u003c\/em\u003e Guillaumin, and \u003cem\u003eA. parvula\u003c\/em\u003e A. Berger. Aloe 'Baby Grand' is Bleck's #1469: (\u003cem\u003eA. bakeri\u003c\/em\u003e x \u003cem\u003eA. parvula\u003c\/em\u003e) x ([\u003cem\u003eA. descoingsii\u003c\/em\u003e x \u003cem\u003eA. parvula\u003c\/em\u003e] x \u003cem\u003eA. boiteaui\u003c\/em\u003e). Its small, clean, dark green rosettes offset slowly but the short inflorescences with proportionately large, pinkish red flowers are outstanding for several months of the year in late winter and spring but also off and on throughout the year. We offer divisions of HBG 104832.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762732908802,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/Aloe_Baby_Grand.png?v=1778623823"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-aloe-cremnophila","title":"ISI 2026-9 Aloe cremnophila","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-9. \u003cem\u003eAloe cremnophila\u003c\/em\u003e Reynolds \u0026amp; P. R. O. Bally. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis rare Somalian aloe is known only from precipitous cliff faces of the Daloh escarpment, overlooking the Gulf of Aden. This rises to over 2000 m and catches moisture rising from the sea below supporting this species and other vegetation in this zone. This aloe is one of a group of species forming colonies of small rosettes of relatively few leaves that, when turgid, can be convex on both surfaces. It is thought to be most closely related to \u003cem\u003eAloe jacksonii\u003c\/em\u003e Reynolds from Ethiopia but lacks the white spots of that species, being mostly a solid light green to gray green. We offer plants from tissue culture of HBG 103037, from the Zurich Succulent Collection, ZSS 89 2320\/0, a collection originally made by Peter R. O. Bally (#10334), October 2, 1954, at 2100 m on the Daloh Escarpment of Somalia, 18 km N of Erigavo. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762732941570,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/JBM_Aloe_cremnophila.png?v=1778688987"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-aloe-cris-santana","title":"ISI 2026-10 Aloe 'Cris Santana'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-10. \u003cem\u003eAloe\u003c\/em\u003e 'Cris Santana' K. Zimmerman. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the latest Karen Zimmerman \u003cem\u003eAloe  \u003c\/em\u003ehybrid. It stands out from her other hybrids in an eye-catching way. The otherwise smooth, green leaves are crowded with raised, longitudinal ridges on both the top and bottom surfaces of the leaves, sometimes with the proportions of a typical hyphen, other times two or three times as long, and occasionally with an outstanding ridge about five times as long! They are colorful too, from pale green to yellow to red, the colors intensifying during winter. The rosettes can reach 10 inches across and offset slowly, but we have been able to multiply the selection more rapidly in tissue culture. It is lovingly named for Karen's girlfriend, Cris, who has been an incredibly positive and empowering presence in her life even from a great distance. We offer rooted offsets of HBG 146285. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762732974338,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/KZ_Aloe_Cris_Santana.png?v=1778689353"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-aloe-ribauensis","title":"ISI 2026-11 Aloe ribauensis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-11.\u003cem\u003e Aloe ribauensis\u003c\/em\u003e T.A. McCoy, Rulkens \u0026amp; Baptista. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis choice species was described in this Journal in 2014 (C\u0026amp;SJ 86(2): 48 ? 53. It is among the few Aloe species endemic to Mozambique including \u003cem\u003eA. cannellii\u003c\/em\u003e L.C.Leach, \u003cem\u003eA. decurva\u003c\/em\u003e Reynolds, \u003cem\u003eA. mossuriliensis\u003c\/em\u003e Ellert, and \u003cem\u003eA. torrei\u003c\/em\u003e I.Verd. \u0026amp; Christian. Another aloe that occurs in Mozambique is \u003cem\u003eAloe mawii\u003c\/em\u003e Christian which also ranges into neighboring Malawi to the W and Tanzania to the N. Like that species, the inflorescences are distinctive in not being erect. In \u003cem\u003eA. mawii \u003c\/em\u003ethey spread horizontally outward and have secund flowers, arranged pointing upward, available to pollinating sunbirds. The inflorescences of \u003cem\u003eA. ribauensis\u003c\/em\u003e are also not erect and can be solitary or have a side branch. Instead of being mostly horizontal, these are decurved, that is, they arch and bend over, bearing the shorter racemes on the pendent portion. Also, instead of being secund, the flowers are arranged radially, spreading in all directions from the axis of the raceme, as in most aloes. The flowers are larger and darker orange to red than those of \u003cem\u003eA. mawii\u003c\/em\u003e but share the robust, contrasting, dark purple filaments that are exserted more than half the length of the corolla in a brush-like arrangement that functions just like a brush in dusting the sunbirds that visit to probe the flowers for nectar. Not only can the sunbirds perch atop the arched peduncle to reach most of the flowers in the basal portion of the raceme, but they may also perch on the sterile portion at the apex of the raceme to reach the more distal flowers. We offer rooted plants from tissue culture of HBG 143917, originally initiated from a young raceme of a plant from aloe collector Daniel Gledhill. Daniel grows one of the few plants originally tissue cultured from a particularly showy, red-flowered form collected by Tom McCoy, July 3, 2013, at the type locality: Mt. Ribaue, Nampula Province, Mozambique, at 1000m on granite.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762733498626,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/JT_Aloe_ribauensis.png?v=1778689731"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-coleus-forsteri","title":"ISI 2026-12 Coleus forsteri","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e Coleus forsteri \u003c\/em\u003e(Benth.) A. J. Paton. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere remains some doubt about the identity of this succulent-leaved species, but this is the name attached to this plant circulating in cultivation. Our doubts about the application of this name are based on a few features. Firstly, herbarium specimens show leaves folded during the pressing process. Our plants, in contrast, have firmer, rather succulent leaves that snap rather than fold. Secondly, inflorescences on dried specimens are elongate with many verticels of small flowers. Plants in cultivation have shorter inflorescences with fewer verticels of larger flowers. Then there is the natural distribution of the species on South Pacific islands (Fiji, New Caledonia, Tonga, and Vanuatu). Plants grown in our climate do not exhibit the cold, nor drought, sensitivity one might expect of plants from these tropical locales. On the contrary, we have found this plant to be exceptionally vigorous and an excellent addition to the palette for dry shade. It makes a mounding shrub with long arching runners resulting in a graceful form. Another feature that recommends this plant is its distinctive and pleasant citronella scent. This can be appreciated by planting along a path edge or around a bench where one can linger, stroke the foliage, and enjoy the aroma. It might even keep away mosquitoes! Short, interrupted panicles of white flowers are produced over a long period with interesting two-lipped, zygomorphic flowers characteristic of this genus in the mint family. Both variegated and non-variegated forms are cultivated, and we offer both. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2026-12 \u003cem\u003eColeus forsteri\u003c\/em\u003e (Benth.) A. J. Paton. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRooted cuts of HBG 145822, the non-variegated form, is a plant received from the late John McGregor in 2010. John was the Huntington rosarian in the 1980s and designed and maintained a number of notable gardens in the Pasadena area after leaving the Huntington, at some point taking an interest in garden-worthy Coleus. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762733531394,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/JT_Coleus_forsteri.png?v=1778690031"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-coleus-forsteri-marginatus","title":"ISI 2026-13 Coleus forsteri 'Marginatus'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003e Coleus forsteri\u003c\/em\u003e (Benth.) A. J. Paton. There remains some doubt about the identity of this succulent-leaved species, but this is the name attached to this plant circulating in cultivation. Our doubts about the application of this name are based on a few features. Firstly, herbarium specimens show leaves folded during the pressing process. Our plants, in contrast, have firmer, rather succulent leaves that snap rather than fold. Secondly, inflorescences on dried specimens are elongate with many verticels of small flowers. Plants in cultivation have shorter inflorescences with fewer verticels of larger flowers. Then there is the natural distribution of the species on South Pacific islands (Fiji, New Caledonia, Tonga, and Vanuatu). Plants grown in our climate do not exhibit the cold, nor drought, sensitivity one might expect of plants from these tropical locales. On the contrary, we have found this plant to be exceptionally vigorous and an excellent addition to the palette for dry shade. It makes a mounding shrub with long arching runners resulting in a graceful form. Another feature that recommends this plant is its distinctive and pleasant citronella scent. This can be appreciated by planting along a path edge or around a bench where one can linger, stroke the foliage, and enjoy the aroma. It might even keep away mosquitoes! Short, interrupted panicles of white flowers are produced over a long period with interesting two-lipped, zygomorphic flowers characteristic of this genus in the mint family. Both variegated and non-variegated forms are cultivated, and we offer both. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eISI 2026-13. \u003cem\u003eColeus forsteri\u003c\/em\u003e 'Marginatus'. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRooted cuts of HBG 146037 which was bought in from some nursery source for our spring Plant Sale in April 2025 and propagated for this offering. This cultivar is variegated with white leaf margins. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762733564162,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/JT_Coleus_forsteri_Marginatus.png?v=1778713163"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-crassula-rupestris","title":"ISI 2026-14 Crassula rupestris","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-14. \u003cem\u003eCrassula rupestris \u003c\/em\u003eThunb. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis species is commonly cultivated for its charming columnar branches of four-ranked leaves that are so succulent and inflated that the leaf margins are rounded on the short, ovate, sessile blades. The leaves are usually gray green with orangish or reddish-blushed margins and tips. The clone offered here presents an unusual chartreuse color. We are pleased to offer this collection made by master grower Rowena Thompson when she visited South Africa in 1990. She worked as the succulent propagator at the Huntington at the time and later married Steve Southwell and operated RSVP nursery. R. Thompson 90-138B was cuttings collected August 9, 1990, in the area of Calitzdorp, W. Cape, S. Africa. Rooted cut of HBG 69471.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762733859074,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/JD_Crassula_rupestris.png?v=1778690368"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-drimiopsis-burkei","title":"ISI 2026-15 Drimiopsis burkei","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-15. \u003cem\u003eDrimiopsis burkei\u003c\/em\u003e Baker. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis bulb ranges from Botswana to Zimbabwe and northern South Africa and has many forms worthy of cultivation. This one differs from many in having only the faintest hint of darker spots on green leaves. Also, the inflorescences emerge as compact heads of pink buds that elongate slightly as the flowers open and produce a subtle fragrance reminiscent of vanilla and marzipan. We offer divisions of HBG 103119, a plant received from the Zurich Succulent Collection (ZSS 93 1051\/a), September 2006. This was originally collected by John \u0026amp; Mireille Lavranos (28826), January 11, 1993, Farm De Suikerboschkop, 15 km NW of Belfast, Mpumulanga, S. Africa. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762734448898,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/KZ_Drimiopsis_burkei.png?v=1778690488"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-echeveria-subcorymbosa","title":"ISI 2026-16 Echeveria subcorymbosa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-16. \u003cem\u003eEcheveria subcorymbosa\u003c\/em\u003e Kimnach \u0026amp; Moran. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis charming little rosette succulent has been known and grown since its first collection by Alfred Lau in the mid-1970s, reflecting its durability in cultivation, in specialist collections at least. Nevertheless, there is some variability meriting wider distribution of another collection. It wasn't formally described until 1994, twenty years after Lau's first collection. It is reported from two localities, just 20 km apart, but the second has broader, flatter leaves, and may merit naming as a subspecies, perhaps. The typical form has obovate leaves, rather thick, with an abaxial keel terminating in a mucronate tip, pinkish in good light like the keel and distal margins. The flowers are urceolate orange with yellow tips. The longer pedicels of lower flowers result in the flowers of an inflorescence being held in a cluster resembling a corymb. In fact, the inflorescence is a raceme (hence inclusion of this species in the series \u003cem\u003eRacemosae \u003c\/em\u003eand the epithet \u003cem\u003esubcorymbosa\u003c\/em\u003e). Myron visited the type locality several times, providing the opportunity to sample various clones for introduction to cultivation. We offer divisions of HBG 72102, an offset collected January 18, 1992, by Myron Kimnach (MK 3206), M. Chazaro, R. Dorsch \u0026amp; M. Negrete, at the type locality: Mexico; Oaxaca; Laguna Encantada, ca. 5 km north of Juxtlahuaca, on steep gypsum cliffs at about 5400'. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762734481666,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/JT_Echerveria_subcorymbosa.png?v=1778688766"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-gibbaeum-nuciforme","title":"ISI 2026-17 Gibbaeum nuciforme","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-17. Gibbaeum nuciforme (Haw.) Glen \u0026amp; H.E.K. Hartmann. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirst described in 1795 by Haworth as \u003cem\u003eMesembryanthemum nuciforme \u003c\/em\u003eHaw., the epithet refers to the appearance of the leaf pairs resembling a small nut. This is especially the case with our clone which can develop a chestnut or reddish blush to the somewhat glossy leaves, each pair resembling a hazelnut in size and shape. However, the leaves are often unequal in size with one leaf slightly more gibbous (humped) than the other. We grew it from seed received from Steven Hammer, January 5, 1986, as \u003cem\u003eG. pilosulum\u003c\/em\u003e (N.E.Br.) N.E.Br., a synonym that refers to the fine, \u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003evelvety pubescense covering the leaves of some forms. The seed for our plant, which happens to lack pubescence, was collected at Plathuis, near Touwsberg. The species is native to the Little Karoo\u003c\/span\u003e, of the Western Cape of South Africa, an area which receives both winter and summer rainfall. Therefore, the plant has grown well in our shade house, experiencing our winter rains and sometimes frosty winter temperatures. It clumps to form colonies that we have gradually divided to produce enough individuals for this distribution. These are ornamented in late winter with magenta flowers larger than the bodies that produce them. Multiheaded clusters of HBG 57175. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762735169794,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/JT_Gibbaeum_nuciforme.png?v=1778688442"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-haworthia-reinwardtii-var-brevicula","title":"ISI 2026-19 Haworthia reinwardtii var. brevicula","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-19. \u003cem\u003eHaworthia reinwardtii var. brevicula\u003c\/em\u003e G. G. Smith. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis charming, slow-growing miniature eventually produces mats or spreading colonies of dark, purplish-green rosettes ornamented with bands of white tubercles. It occurs along the south coast of the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa where it experiences some precipitation throughout the year. It tolerates full sun near the coast but will appreciate a bit of shade inland. We offer divisions of HBG 109237, a plant received from Stephen McCabe at the UC Santa Cruz Arboretum, in turn from noted hybridizer of the Crassulaceae, Bob Grim of San Jose, CA. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762735235330,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/KZ_Haworthia_reinwardtii_var._brevicula.png?v=1778688031"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-haworthia-truncata-nazca","title":"ISI 2026-20 Haworthia truncata 'Nazca'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-20. \u003cem\u003eHaworthia truncata\u003c\/em\u003e 'Nazca'. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eHaworthia truncata \u003c\/em\u003eSchoenland has always been remarkable for the artificial look of its truncate leaves. While it may appear to the uninitiated that the leaves have been cut flat, this is, in fact, the natural shape of the leaves. When lined up in distichous rosettes, these resemble the broadened molar teeth of some large, herbivorous mammal. These leaves provide one of the prime examples of the windowed leaf adaptation (along with various mesembs like \u003cem\u003eFenestraria \u003c\/em\u003eand the more succulent-leaved Peruvian \u003cem\u003ePeperomia \u003c\/em\u003especies. See ISI 2026-25) whereby the bulk of the plant body can stay protected from herbivores and desiccation underground while light can enter the translucent \"windows\" of the truncate leaf tip to be used for photosynthesis. The largely subterranean nature of the plants also provides a degree of crypsis, further protection from herbivores. Perhaps this explains why this now so popular subject of succulent collections was not described to science until the late date of 1910. The species is native to the Western Cape Province of South Africa where some natural variation can be observed. This variation has been exploited by breeders, initially in Japan, but now worldwide, to enhance various characteristics including size of the translucent, windowed leaf tip, texture of the leaf surface, and the degree of lineation or markings in the windows that add to its camouflage. The selection offered here is named to allude to these markings which ornament the large leaf tips that otherwise look like globs of jelly. The mysterious Nazca lines of Peru, created by ancient peoples for spiritual expression, are the inspiration for the cultivar name. The selection can be propagated vegetatively by division or root cuttings, but this can be an excruciatingly slow process. In nature, these fleshy roots not only store water but can be contractile, pulling the plant down into the sheltering soil. Should some persistent herbivore manage to dig deep enough to eat the entire rosette, the fleshy roots have the potential to resprout and grow new rosettes. Alternatively, tissue culture of a young inflorescence affords non-destructive sampling and relatively rapid multiplication in culture for this offering. HBG 122883, tissue cultured plants of a plant originally received from \u003cem\u003eHaworthia \u003c\/em\u003ebreeder, Renny Wong, September 25, 2014. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLimit, one per customer. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762735268098,"sku":null,"price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/Haworthia_truncata_Nazca.png?v=1778687856"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-haworthia-viscosa","title":"ISI 2026-21 Haworthia viscosa","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-21. \u003cem\u003eHaworthia viscosa\u003c\/em\u003e (L.) Haw. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is one of the more rigid-leaved members of what was originally considered to constitute the subgenus \u003cem\u003eHexangulares\u003c\/em\u003e. Modern taxonomists have argued for its elevation to generic status as the genus \u003cem\u003eHaworthiopsis\u003c\/em\u003e. However, the flowers are remarkably consistent across subgenera, so retention of these plants in the genus \u003cem\u003eHaworthia\u003c\/em\u003e, which is noted for its variability of leaf form, can be justified, even if DNA evidence supports the distinctness of the subgeneric clades. \u003cem\u003eHaworthia viscosa \u003c\/em\u003eis usually easily distinguished from all other members of the broader genus by the tower-like stems of stacked, three-ranked, rigid leaves. These can be bright green, elongate and forming rather open rosettes, or short and tightly packed. However, within the range of variation are those with dark tuberculate leaves, resembling those of the one other \u003cem\u003eHaworthia \u003c\/em\u003especies with tower-like stacks of three-ranked leaves, namely \u003cem\u003eH. nigra\u003c\/em\u003e. Therefore, the form offered here was, for a time, thought to be misidentified as\u003cem\u003e H. viscosa\u003c\/em\u003e. Consultation with various \u003cem\u003eHaworthia \u003c\/em\u003eauthorities, however, confirms that this is within the range of variability for \u003cem\u003eH. viscosa\u003c\/em\u003e. Unfortunately, we do not have provenance information for this collection to help confirm that placement. Nevertheless, such \u003cem\u003eH. nigra\u003c\/em\u003e look-alike forms of\u003cem\u003e H. viscosa\u003c\/em\u003e are known and the two species are both widespread with broadly overlapping distributions. Divisions of HBG 126408.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762735694082,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/Haworthia_viscosa.png?v=1778686480"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-hoya-kanyakumariana","title":"ISI 2026-22 Hoya kanyakumariana","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-22. \u003cem\u003eHoya kanyakumariana\u003c\/em\u003e A. N. Henry \u0026amp; Swamin. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis unusual hoya has small, obovate, leathery leaves about 2 cm long. These are a uniform dusky green, without visible venation, but with fine, scattered, hair-like papillae and undulate margins. Flowers are also diminutive, about 10 per umbel, about 1 cm diameter, white or palest pink, sea-star-like with rounded lobes and coarsely ciliate margins. The corona is also five-parted and star-like. The individual corona lobes are glossy, translucent and fleshy, resembling a juicy cell of a citrus fruit, white with a dart-shaped purple marking at the base, the color of which suffuses into the surrounding tissue. Like many hoyas, the flowers have a sweet fragrance, impressive for their small size. The species grows in the Sanjeevi hills, inland from the village of Kanyakumari, in the Western Ghats of Tamil Nadu state, at the southern tip of India. Rooted cuts of HBG 124440.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762735726850,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/Hoya_kanyakumariana.png?v=1778628538"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-pachyphytum-werdermannii","title":"ISI 2026-24 Pachyphytum werdermannii","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-24. \u003cem\u003ePachyphytum werdermannii\u003c\/em\u003e von Poellnitz. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe genus \u003cem\u003ePachyphytum \u003c\/em\u003ecurrently includes 25 species of leaf succulents from Mexico. Their fleshy leaves come in a range of pastel colors and glaucousness from white with a thick waxy cuticle, to gray or green blushed with lavender or pinkish tones when more exposed and stressed. At the time of its description, \u003cem\u003ePachyphytum werdermannii \u003c\/em\u003ewas the most northerly species in the genus. (That distinction now belongs to \u003cem\u003eP. huastecanum\u003c\/em\u003e J.Reyes, Etter \u0026amp; Kristen which will be offered through the ISI in the future.) It was first introduced to cultivation by Dr. Erich Werdermann in 1933 and described by von Poellnitz in 1937. Werdermann (1892-1959) was a German botanist dedicated to the study of succulents, publishing extensively and becoming curator of the Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden from 1951 to 1958. But in 1933, he spent several months studying the collections at the Huntington, bookended by collecting trips to the SW US and Mexico. The \u003cem\u003ePachyphytum \u003c\/em\u003ethat bears his name was found on the earlier of those expeditions. The type collection was apparently the only one in cultivation for several decades until Reid Moran set out to re-collect it in 1966. He wrote a detailed description of the plant and the story of its re-collection in this Journal (39 (4): 154 -158, 1967). The species is somewhat variable in leaf shape and size but generally has oblong leaves with a rounded apex, somewhat flattened and widest in the middle. Our plant has leaves about 5 cm long with a lavender blush to its beige or grayish color. The flowers are borne in nodding cincinni pollinated by hummingbirds attracted by the red interior of the pendent flowers. As the fruits mature, the flowers turn upward and the persistent sepals dry and become thin, spreading, white and petal-like subtending the five alternating carpels which split open to release their fine, windborne seed. This morphology and these adaptations for pollination and seed dispersal are typical of cliff-dwelling Crassulaceae. We offer rooted cuttings of HBG 128859, a plant received from Myron Kimnach (2011.27). Myron's plant came from the Köhres collection near Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762736578818,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/Pachyphytum_werdermannii.png?v=1778628052"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-peperomia-cactusville","title":"ISI 2026-25 Peperomia 'Cactusville'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-25. \u003cem\u003ePeperomia\u003c\/em\u003e 'Cactusville' G. Rowley. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMany of the more succulent species of \u003cem\u003ePeperomia\u003c\/em\u003e are native to Peru. These have very succulent leaves that exhibit fascinating examples of the \"windowed\" adaptation. These look as if a typical flat leaf blade has been folded in half and the resulting channel has been filled in with translucent, succulent tissue. This translucent window acts as a skylight, allowing light to reach the inner photosynthetic layer which is protected from water loss by being embedded in this succulent tissue. \u003cem\u003ePeperomia asperula\u003c\/em\u003e Hutchison \u0026amp; Rauh is one of the more commonly grown succulent species, and, like many peperomias, bears slender green spikes with minute, self-fertile flowers.\u003cem\u003e Peperomia\u003c\/em\u003e 'Cactusville' appears to be a selfed seedling or hybrid of \u003cem\u003eP. asperula\u003c\/em\u003e (or P. nivalis Miq.) and was selected by Gordon Rowley when it appeared in his greenhouse in Reading, England. It is customary in England to give one's estate, however modest, a name that reflects the character of its master. In Gordon's case, he gave it the whimsical name \"Cactusville\" reflecting his nearly life-long interest and study of succulent plants. Hence, that name was applied to this \u003cem\u003ePeperomia\u003c\/em\u003e that originated there. We recently planted some out in the upper Desert Garden in a shaded rockery where it has thrived, becoming a tight, rich green cushion that invites the curious to peer into its windows. Rooted cuts of HBG 129007, a plant from Myron Kimnach in 2014 who received it from Gordon and had it labeled \"G. Rowley hybrid selection 4\/97.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762736611586,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/Peperomia_Cactusville.png?v=1778627824"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-perrierastrum-oreophilum","title":"ISI 2026-26 Perrierastrum oreophilum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-26. \u003cem\u003ePerrierastrum oreophilum\u003c\/em\u003e Guillaumin. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHere is another monotypic genus that has been synonymized into oblivion, should one choose to accept the new order. Based on recent DNA analysis of three regions of the plastid genome, Paton et al. (Botanical Journal of the Linnaean Society, Vol. 188 (4): 355-376 (2018)) have found several formerly monotypic genera to belong to a single clade. However, \u003cem\u003ePerrierastrum\u003c\/em\u003e is distinctive and easily recognized among these with its pinnately divided, fleshy leaves that have earned it the common name of Madagascar mountain fern shrub. I'm not sure that name is any more convenient than the botanical name. In any case, the authors consider this species to now be one of six species, endemic to Madagascar, placed in the genus \u003cem\u003eCapitanopsis\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1916 for \u003cem\u003eC. cloiselii\u003c\/em\u003e S. Moore. Also distinctive are the inflorescences which contrast with the pinnately divided foliar leaves in having leafy, green but simple, ovate inflorescence bracts. The white flowers are zygomorphic and fairly typical of the Plectranthinae tribe of the Lamiaceae or mint family. Unlike many mints, the stems are not square in cross section. Nor is the foliage particularly aromatic. The plant will, indeed, grow into a somewhat gangly shrub about a meter tall and wide. A little pinching of the meristems will help keep it more compact. Until now, there was only one clone in cultivation, a plant collected October 23, 1995, by John Lavranos (30014), 15 km W of Ambalavao Madagascar, where it grew atop a granite dome. The generic name \u003cem\u003ePerrierastrum\u003c\/em\u003e would, at first glance, seem to commemorate Perrier de la Bâthie (1873 -1958), French botanist who lived and worked in Madagascar from 1896-1933. However, in this case it is derived from the Simaroubaceous genus \u003cem\u003ePerriera\u003c\/em\u003e, a tree from the wetter tropics of Madagascar, plus the diminutive suffix -astrum. The genus\u003cem\u003e Perriera\u003c\/em\u003e also commemorates Perrier de la Bâthie, incidentally. The epithet \u003cem\u003eoreophilum\u003c\/em\u003e refers to the plant's montane habitat (\u003cem\u003eoreo\u003c\/em\u003e = mountain, \u003cem\u003ephilum\u003c\/em\u003e = loving). \u003cspan data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\"\u003eWe offer rooted cuts of HBG 148327 (not 82734 as published in the C\u0026amp;SJ — that is the Lavranos collection), propagated by Joe Stead\u003c\/span\u003e of Orange Coast College, Costa Mesa, CA. This is now a second clone in cultivation. It was originally collected by Tom McCoy April 24, 2003, at the same locality as cited above for the Lavranos collection and grew in association with \u003cem\u003eAloe deltoideodonta\u003c\/em\u003e var. fallax J.-B.Castillon. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762736644354,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/Perrierastrum_oreophilum.png?v=1778626768"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-puya-blue-ghost","title":"ISI 2026-27 Puya 'Blue Ghost'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-27. \u003cem\u003ePuya  \u003c\/em\u003e'Blue Ghost' J.Trager. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 2015, we offered \u003cem\u003ePuya gilmartinii\u003c\/em\u003e G.S. Varad \u0026amp; A.R. Flores ISI 2015-39, a critically endangered Chilean species that lives in a restricted area of coastal Chile that is under pressure from development. In March 2018, we planted several in the lower Desert Garden. They thrived in our comparable climate, and we eagerly awaited their first flowering. In June of 2023, the first of these produced an inflorescence and we anticipated the yellow to chartreuse flowers described and illustrated for the species. When the first flowers opened a few days later, I was puzzled by the flower color, which was not at all what was expected but, rather, a pale, ghostly blue like that of some of the highly sought after high-Andean species. None of the other plants in the garden flowered that year nor have they since then. Following flowering, I checked for seeds in case the plant was self-fertile, but no capsules developed. The question was whether this was an unusual color variant of \u003cem\u003eP. gilmartinii\u003c\/em\u003e or a hybrid with the sympatric \u003cem\u003eP. alpestris\u003c\/em\u003e subsp. \u003cem\u003ezoellneri\u003c\/em\u003e Zizka, J.V.Schneid \u0026amp; Novoa which has emerald-green flowers. Every child painter learns that blue mixed with yellow makes green but was it possible that a yellow-flowered Puya crossed with a green-flowered one makes blue? This appears to be the case but will await DNA analysis someday to confirm. In the meantime, the year after flowering, the plant produced several branches from around the base of the old inflorescence. One was somewhat painfully extracted and initiated into tissue culture. It multiplied rapidly, affording this introduction. We offer rooted explants of HBG 145788, an apparent natural hybrid of \u003cem\u003eP. gilmartinii\u003c\/em\u003e x \u003cem\u003eP. alpestris\u003c\/em\u003e subsp. \u003cem\u003ezoellneri\u003c\/em\u003e from seed collected December 2006 from \u003cem\u003eP. gilmartinii\u003c\/em\u003e by Rachel Schmidt-Jabaily (RSJ 169) while studying the genus for her doctoral work, N of La Serena, Coquimbo Region, Elqui Province, Chile. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762736677122,"sku":null,"price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/Puya_Blue_Ghost.png?v=1778625748"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-xsedeveria-harry-butterfield","title":"ISI 2026-28 xSedeveria 'Harry Butterfield'","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-28. x\u003cem\u003eSedeveria\u003c\/em\u003e 'Harry Butterfield'. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHarry Morton Butterfield (1888-1970) was a noted horticulturist and floriculturist with the UC Extension at Berkeley in the 1920s but is better known in the cactus and succulent world as a hybridizer of Echeveria. Perhaps his most enduring legacy is having this hybrid named for him. Dick Wright, also a noted Echeveria hybridizer, created the hybrid by crossing \u003cem\u003eSedum morganianum\u003c\/em\u003e E.Walther (2n = 70) with \u003cem\u003eEcheveria derenbergii\u003c\/em\u003e J.A.Purpus (2n = 27). The discrepancy in chromosome numbers explains why the Sedum parent, the common \"donkey's tail\", seems to dominate in the hybrid such that it is commonly known as the super donkey's tail and is often confused with the parent species. It does resemble a robust \u003cem\u003eS. morganianum\u003c\/em\u003e and will produce pendent stems covered with overlapping, lanceolate, acute leaves, but these stems will only arch over the edge of a pot by a few inches while \u003cem\u003eS. morganianum\u003c\/em\u003e can form curtains of straight, hanging branches to 3' (a meter) or more. There are said to be two clones of this cross in cultivation, one with pinkish flowers, the other with pale yellow flowers. The latter is the most common and can be considered the \"true\" x\u003cem\u003eSedeveria\u003c\/em\u003e 'Harry Butterfield'. It is offered here to clarify the distinction between the species \u003cem\u003eSedum\u003c\/em\u003e and its hybrid, and to honor both Harry Butterfield and Dick Wright who is still hybridizing succulents in Fallbrook, CA, at the age of 97 and a half! Perhaps he has hit on the key to longevity, and certainly posterity, by creating so many interesting hybrids worth growing. Rooted cuttings of HBG 54005, received January 7, 1985, from succulent collector Shirley Berry of Rancho Santa Fe, CA. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762736709890,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/xSedeveria_Harry_Butterfield.png?v=1778625190"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-sedum-allantoides","title":"ISI 2026-29 Sedum allantoides","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-29. \u003cem\u003eSedum allantoides\u003c\/em\u003e Rose. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis Mexican species was discovered by C. A. Purpus in 1907 on the hills near San Luis Atolotitlán, in southern Puebla and was described by J. N. Rose in 1909. As he was impressed by its thick, succulent, cylindrical leaves he called it \u003cem\u003eS. allantoides\u003c\/em\u003e (Greek \u003cem\u003eallanto \u003c\/em\u003e= sausage). The flowers of the new species were greenish white, sometimes tinged with pink. However, the occurrence of \u003cem\u003eS. allantoides\u003c\/em\u003e is not limited to San Luis Atolotitlán. Its distribution area includes southern Puebla and northern Oaxaca, and subsequent findings show that this is a rather variable species. Leaves can be sausage-like or more flattened and rounded and flowers can have red spots on the inside of white petals, thus reminding one of the flowers of the genus \u003cem\u003eGraptopetalum\u003c\/em\u003e. Such a form was collected by Dudley Gold in 1954 and described by Matuda as \u003cem\u003eGraptopetalum goldii\u003c\/em\u003e. He obviously overlooked the fact that the plant differed in crucial characteristics from species of the genus \u003cem\u003eGraptopetalum\u003c\/em\u003e (the indication of the type locality as \"near Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo\" is also in error). It was recombined in the genus \u003cem\u003eSedum\u003c\/em\u003e by V. V. Byalt in 2012, and for the sake of completeness, Sedum Society Newsletter 3, 1987 contains a description of \"Sedum allantoides form 'Goldii'\". To treat it as a cultivar is hardly merited as this is not the only clone with this leaf morphology. The cylindrical leaf form has inspired the evocative, though gruesome, common name in Spanish of dedos muertos, meaning dead man's fingers. I have never seen such fingers and am happy to leave that to the imagination. Another species with similar flowers is\u003cem\u003e Sedum alexanderi\u003c\/em\u003e which has larger, flattened discoid leaves. Also native to Oaxaca, this probably doesn't merit specific status but could be included as a form or variety of \u003cem\u003eSedum allantoides\u003c\/em\u003e. We offer rooted cuttings of HBG 48609, a diploid plant (n = 58) collected November 15, 1957, by Reid Moran at San Antonio Texcala, about 7 miles S of Tehuacán, Puebla, at about 1850 m altitude. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Huntington Plant Sales","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47762736742658,"sku":null,"price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/8963\/6866\/files\/Sedum_allantoides.png?v=1778624331"},{"product_id":"isi-2026-stapelia-paniculata","title":"ISI 2026-30 Stapelia paniculata subsp. kougabergensis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e ISI 2026-30. \u003cem\u003eStapelia paniculata\u003c\/em\u003e subsp. \u003cem\u003ekougabergensis\u003c\/em\u003e (L.C.Leach) Bruyns. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis plant was received from the former Shoal Creek Succulents nursery in October 2008 before they liquidated their stapeliad collection and closed business. It was received with their number 201963 as \u003cem\u003eStapelia paniculata\u003c\/em\u003e subsp. \u003cem\u003escitula\u003c\/em\u003e ex the International Asclepiad Society (IAS 1533). Peter Bruyns, the collector, was subsequently able to provide us with the data for his collection PVB 6790 from Goudmyn in the Rooiberg near Robertson, W. Cape, S. Africa. Meanwhile we acquired another Bruyns collection that we distributed as ISI 2009-28. These were grown by C\u0026amp;J nursery from seed collected in the hills around Robertson. We distributed divisions of multiple clones, a few of which persist, but this has proven to be a rather finicky stapeliad prone to rot. The Shoal Creek plant, meanwhile, filled a pan in the Desert Conservatory and became a wonderfully floriferous display specimen. When the Conservatory was under renovation starting in April 2022, the entire collection was relocated to a shade house with the expectation that renovation would be complete by the following October. Renovations dragged on and we found ourselves inadvertently conducting a grand experiment into the tolerances of a diverse collection of succulents for our Mediterranean climate including winter rains and cool winter temperatures. It turned out to be quite instructive as to what preferred shade house conditions and what didn't. The Shoal Creek Stapelia turned out to be fine in the shade house, flowering as well or better in outdoor conditions with more ventilation and UV light. Its identity as a form of \u003cem\u003eS. paniculata\u003c\/em\u003e var. \u003cem\u003escitula\u003c\/em\u003e still seemed plausible so I never sent photos to Bruyns for confirmation of the identity. However, it did stand out as a more robust and floriferous form with slightly larger, attractively banded flowers. When looking more closely at its characteristics and comparing to the ISI collection, it finally dawned on me that this was not \u003cem\u003eStapelia paniculata\u003c\/em\u003e subsp. \u003cem\u003escitula\u003c\/em\u003e. Further research has finally clarified the identity of the Shoal Creek plant as \u003cem\u003eS. paniculata\u003c\/em\u003e subsp. \u003cem\u003ekougabergensis\u003c\/em\u003e and that the locality data for PVB 6790 does not apply. Apparently, there was a label switch. Our plant compares quite favorably with PVB 6326 illustrated in Bruyns' two-volume Stapeliads of Southern Africa and Madagascar. It is reported much further east than the Robertson area, in fact, occurring mostly in the Eastern Cape and barely in the adjacent Western Cape. 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