60057 FOCKEA EDULIS ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 11.50 Caudiform from the South African veldts. Silvery swollen base with raised bumpy "bark"; small rubbery succulent foliage. Not fussy about conditions (well, don't freeze it!) and thus certainly one of the best succulents for beginners; yet quite handsome fat bottomed character which becomes more impressive every year. Thus, a good way to start your collection of caudexes with a plant you'll never dream of parting with.

60692 FOCKEA AFRICANA (SPECIES AFRICA, TUGALENSIS) ASC HP TGH PRICE: $ 18.00 Caudiform with brown-barked vine studded with purple-backed, pointed leaves. Not Fockea natalensis, but a plant sometime allied with Tacazzia. Often called Fockea tugalensis or Pentodentia natalensis. You'll find this handsome caudiform vine ignores all of this, instead concentrating on being beautiful.

60184 FREREA INDICA ASC HP TGH PRICE: $5.25 "Leafy Starfish" Semi-erect, then pendant leafy branches produce beautiful convex red starfish flowers spotted sulphur yellow. From india, prefers constant warmth and even moisture in an epiphytic mix. If ordered to be sent during a less warm period of the year, we typically send as an URCutting in dry moss so it will travel without chance of rot. Formerly Caralluma frerea, a great favorite among lite gardeners, as it thrives in such environments--in fact, customers tell us it is everblooming in lite gardens.

68072 FURCRAEA GIGANTEA VARIEGATA [STRIATA] AGA PRICE: $ 15.00 "Giant False Agave" Beautifully striated soft sword-like leaves in wide open habit; occasional marginal spines. A native of Brazil formerly included in Amaryllidaceae. Handsome. F. gigantea probably more correct as F. foetida--no matter which name mere humans wish to use, this splendid living sculpture will eventually require a forklift to be moved.

65103 GASTERIA CAESPITOSA HORT FORM LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 Much-spiraled twisted glossy spotted leaves in very petite upreaching cute clusters; excellent compact form with elongated leaves. This sometimes is listed as Gasteria bicolor. Nomenclature is uncertain.

65114 GASTERIA NIGRICANS MARMORATA VARIEGATA LIL PRICE: $ 8.00 Fat short leaves in tight "Bow Ties" are embossed with rich milk-chocolate and ivory stripes. Remarkably beautiful.

65117GASTERIA SILVER STRIPES [HYB]LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25Hybrid or selection we received thirty plus years ago from Ed Hummel; Upright, rigid fans of strikingly pebbled green striped coriaceus leaves with ridged surface of gray-silver. Unique designs resembling expensive jewelry.

60363 GRAPTOPETALUM PARAGUAYENSE CRA HP CGH PRICE: $ 3.25"Ghost Plant" Fat angled amethyst-gray leaves, with a silvery bloom giving a "mother-of-pearl" effect, on swooping thick stems; modest white flowers. A traditional favorite potplant for the sunny windowsill, for that pearly foliaged patio accent plant and for that hanging basket showoff; certainly imperative in any succulent wreath. Pretty, succulent and easy--sounds like the perfect plant date.