Specialty Lists for Items in Short Supply Rather than just post a mid-summer or early fall listing of new and special plants, we are attempting to maintain and update this SPECIALITY LIST monthly, starting this winter of 2010. During the major time warps of late spring when our mailorder shipping is at peak, expect a lapse or so, but by early summer we should be keeping newly available items posted with some regularity--many curious and rare plants (usually only available to visitors visiting the nursery to uncover) are currently in propagation. But many are too iffy to list with tropical and succulent offerings in the main section of this website and are not finished enough to be offered in this list now; so watch for changes below. Most of the following do not appear in the main catalogue listings either because they are not in ongoing production (as are plants in the main catalogue which are notated SOLD OUT, but not removed from the postings), or because the number of available rooted and potted individual plants is quite limited and no further crops are anticipated soon. So have fun reading through what might constitute the most hopelessly bizarre and "rarely" jumbled selection of prize plants you've met in some time. We exist to keep you amused and to keep you supplied with just enough new toys (plants) to keep you amused but never sated. Please note: since it is early in the year, we have added numerous new offerings to our Website. The list below will be increasing soon. But for now, if you a returning customer, Click Here to see just the tropicals listed in our New Tropical Plants for 2010Listing.

< 51733 ARGYREIA WALLICHII CONV TGH $ 20.00 The Burmese "Myanmar Morning Glory" climber with wrinkly leaves of hairy hearts bearing dense large heads of tidy rose flowers (tinged white) clustered in impressive cupped bristle-haired bracts. We are not responsible for the girth of this wonder.

40224 DRACAENA REFLEXA SONG OF INDIA AGA HP TGH $ 8.00 Ribbed trunks support thick swirls of short dark strap leaves margined in wide ivory bands; Pleomele reflexa variegata. Few house plants this highly variegated flourish in normal dry indoor conditions as well as this one.

< 65094 EUCOMIS VANDERMERWEI LIL HP TGH $ 15.00 Dwarf bulb with highly ornate fleshy short leaves, nearly evergreen with fluted margins and maroon spotted; cute tubby "Pineapple" inflorescence only 6" tall. Collector's dream.

40263 FICUS ASPERATA [PARCELLII] MOR CGH HH $ 15.00 "The Clown Fig" Papery leaves flecked with white; fruit striped cream. This plant supposedly is only found in the wild in a variegated form.

60517 HYPOXIS VILLOSA HYP HP CGH $ 15.00 Yellow fl green below with orange stamens; pelted underleaf. Caudiform "Golden Winter Star" from Kirstenbosch B. Gar.

51734 OROXYLUM INDICUM BIG TGH $ 30.00 A small tree, the "Indian Trumpet Flower" (native on into the Philippines) with dramatic divided foliage and smelly night blooming "midnight Horror" erect purple tubular flowers followed by three foot long fruit, thus called the "Tree of Damocles."

30313 PHILODENDRON FLORIDA BEAUTY ALBA [HYB] ARAC HP TGH $ 55.00New leaves of ivory veined chartruse fade to deep striated green--much larger statured than 'White Squamiferum' and not usually self-heading. Very rare, hard-to-locate cultivar with extremely limited number available.

65597 PROTASPARAGUS DENSIFLORUS MAZEPPA LIL HP TGH $ 6.25 Collected in Africa--arching branches more compact than the species form, yet not as congested as "Meyersii."

40858 PUNICA GRANATUM VARIEGATA PUN CGH HH $12.00 "Carnation-flowered Pomegranate" Pink mottled bubbled lvs on erect, striped stems; rare clone imported from Japan with remarkable double crepe-textured scarlet blossoms appearing on mature specimens. Much sought-after by collectors.Variegation remains throughout the season but is shaded with pinks in the spring.

61709 ROSMARINUS OFFICINALIS ROBUSTIFOLIUS LAB CGH HH $ 8.25 This "Giant Rosemary" is H&H Botanicals' offspring of the already robust 'Gorizia' from Italy. Very large dark fragrant leaves with blue blossoms along the fastigate woody stems--this should made a perfect specimen for standards or woven trunks.

30542 SCINDAPSIS EXOTICA [SPECIES] ARAC TGH HP $ 14.50 Newly offered from the new robust clone; this looks just like the slower growing clone we have had for years. Possibly because of meristeming, this clone grows robustly and has all the same earmarks of the original plant. Order this at the new lower price. Leathery wide lance leaves of glossy grey green, nearly obscured with bright aluminum grey. Remarkable and beautiful "Exotic Pothos" neither a Pothos, nor Raphiodophora Exotica.

54421 THEOBROMA CACAO POL HP CGH $ 25.00 New for 2010and 2010! "Cocoa Tree" This chocolate plant has been requested by many of our customers over the last couple years. It is now available! Attractive leathery lvs emerge pinkish bronze; after forms trunks, produces yellowish flowers followed by the ten-ribbed orange fruits (of course, in the best conditions) which are (after fermentation and roasting) the commercial source of chocolate/cocoa. This plant is beautifully foliaged and makes a great plant-room subject, even if you never see the cocoa pods.

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