| Abutilon megapotaticum | a beautiful 'flowering maple' species which produces copious flowers for me year round.
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| Acer burgerianum | the trident maple is a popular bonsai specimen
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| Acer japonicum vitifolium | this maple is unusual because of its wide, very lightly divided and very light green leaves. Common name is the grape-leaf maple, if that give you any idea.
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| Acer palmatum Hanami Nishiki | Hanami means flower viewing. Nishiki is a tapestry. This is one of the smallest leaf forms of japanese maple. A miniature.
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| Acer palmatum Kamagata | another dwarfed form of Japanese maple with almost lacy leaves.
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| Acer palmatum Sango Kaku | Coral red bark on the new growth, and beautiful leaves that open reddish, turn green and then back to red in the fall.
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| Acer palmatum Sekka Yatsubusa | this small-leaved Japanese maple has a very dense growth habit.
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| Acer pentaphyllum | a rarely seen maple with extremely divided leaves like a hand.
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| Adenium arabicum | Pretty flowers on a caudiciform succulent, probably the most common species of desert rose after Adenium obesum.
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| Adenium somalense | A slightly less common adenium from Somalia, as the name suggests.
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| Agave parryi var. cousei | Agave parryi seems to be quite variable. There's little information available on this particular form, but it's rumored to be a little larger than the typical form and have fewer, thicker leaves. A. parryi seems to do well in colder and wetter climates than many other similar succulents. The lable spelled it Agave parryi couseii, but the web seems to think there's only one i.
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| Agave victoria-reginae var. compacta | this agave offsets like crazy. It's a form of the normal Agave victoria-revinae, but grows smaller and somewhat messier due to the offsetts.
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| Agave victoria-reginae | a deep green agave with many fat leaves striped in white.
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| Aglaonema x Thai Hybrid | These aglaonema were imported directly from Thailand. They've managed to breed it into a deep red color, and it's a striking plant, but unfortunately, they lost the famous impervious to household conditions quality somewhere along the way.
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| Alocasia advincula | Discovered in Capiz Province in the Phillippines in 2004 by Tony Advincula. Leaves somewhat like batwings.
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| Alocasia clypeolata | this is sometimes called the 'greenback' cuprea, but it's really not the same at all. The leaves are more soft and velvety, not reflective like cuprea.
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| Alocasia micholitziana Green velvet | A. micholitziana is kind of variable, and this form has very pointed leaves and a lighter green color than some.
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| Alocasia nebula | The leaves of this plant are almost like cardboard - a little stiff and dry. Some pictures out there are of the wet leaf, which looks even more spectacular.
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| Alocasia reginula Black velvet | Another cardboard leaved alocasia that can do well in the home, requiring not too much light and withstanding dry conditions. Like many alocasias, it does go partiall dormant occasionally, which makes it somewhat less than ideal. The leaves are very stiff yet velvety.
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| Alocasia reversa "Dewey's Reversa" | dark veins and a lighter background are the reverse of the coloring in most Alocasias. Hence the name.
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| Alocasia rugosa | dark leaves with a texture of snakeskin. Deals well with low light conditions.
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| Alocasia zebrina reticulata | the reticulation in the leaves stays throughout its lifecycle. I seem to recall hearing that this was a sport discovered in florida in the 70's, but I need to look up the reference again.
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| Aloe barbadensis | this is the famous Aloe Vera, from whence sunburn gel comes.
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| Aloe plicatilis | a 'fan' aloe with thin strap-like leaves arrayed in a fan shape.
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| Aloe polyphylla | from the Drakensberg mountains in South Africa, this aloe grows its short, smooth leaves into a spiral pattern. The ends of the leaves are very pokey. It does well in a mediterranean climate as long as it doesn't dry out. The roots need to be protected from dryness and heat.
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| Aloe suprafoliata | sometimes called the 'propeller' aloe, the elongated, toothed leaves grow in a spiral.
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| Amorphophallus albus H.AM.1222 | A small grower native to Yunnan Province of China.
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| Amorphophallus albus | A small grower native to Yunnan Province of China.
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| Amorphophallus bulbifer | A. bulbifer is named because it is one of the few species that produces leaf bulbils copiously and naturally. It grows to moderate size, producing a large, slightly pink infloresence. There is rumored to be a good smelling and a bad smelling form.
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| Amorphophallus carneus H.Am.464 | Another small growing species.
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| Amorphophallus henryi | this easy to grow species doesn't get too big, but has a huge flower that smells of dog leavings. Easy and rewarding to grow.
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| Amorphophallus henryi | this easy to grow species doesn't get too big, but has a huge flower that smells of dog leavings. Easy and rewarding to grow.
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| Amorphophallus konjac H.AM.248 | this is the standard voodoo bulb, if it's not the T. guttatum. It's armed in Japan for the tubers, which are made into konnyaku. It is actually not a small plant, and flowering size tubers are quite large.
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| Amorphophallus konjac | this is the standard voodoo bulb, if it's not the T. guttatum. It's armed in Japan for the tubers, which are made into konnyaku. It is actually not a small plant, and flowering size tubers are quite large.
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| Amorphophallus koratensis | This form of the somewhat variable Amorphophallus koratensis has a very warty, completely green petiole. The infloresence of this species is held close to the ground and is more cup-shaped than a normal Amorphophallus.
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| Amorphophallus krausei | this species is small growing and relatively easy flowering, as evinced by my ability to flower it when growing in less than ideal conditions outdoors.
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| Amorphophallus krausei | this species is small growing and relatively easy flowering, as evinced by my ability to flower it when growing in less than ideal conditions outdoors.
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| Amorphophallus maxwellii HAM910 | a moderately large plant, it's notable for the strong white markings on the petiole.
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| Amorphophallus napiger | This amorphophallus is relatively small, but has a very long thin tuber rather than the more standard short, squat one.
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| Amorphophallus obscurus | a tiny tiny amorphophallus, a few inches tall at flowering size.
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| Amorphophallus odoratus | supposedly, the infloresence smells like fresh carrots.
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| Amorphophallus sp | I, um, lost the tag on this one.
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| Amorphophallus spectabilis | rumored to be difficult to transplant, and requires hothouse conditions, it's a fairly large grower.
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| Amorphophallus sumawongii H.AM.714 | a smaller plant with a more long and thin tuber.
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| Amorphophallus symonianus H.AM.719 | named for Jim Symon, who brought us so many wonderful titan flowerings.
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| Amorphophallus titanum | I got this from an early tissue culture batch. Tuber the size of a softball so far and counting. The stalk reached the top of my greenhouse this year, so I'll probably donate it when I get a chance.
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| Amorphophallus yuloensis H.AM.231 | smaller growing white flower amorph.
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| Amorphophallus yunnanensis | This is a very strong growing amorphophallus for me, at least in my greenhouse.
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| Anchomanes dalzielii H.AM.719 | Wilbert sez: This is a species from western Africa, with a thick creeping rhizome, a bright green spathe, large stigmas that are almost sessile on the centre of the ovary and with red fruits.
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| Anchomanes difformis var welwitschii | An african Amorphophallus analogue with a spiny petiole. Wilbert sez: This form of A. difformis shows lack of a style and often pale colours.
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| Anchomanes giganteum | I got it from Dewey Fisk, but Wilbert sez: Not known in cultivation. The name is always misused for A. difformis…
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| Anthurium bakeri | this is a strap leaf kind with a very bright red self-fertile seedhead
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| Anthurium brownii | tough leaves on a tough plant. Reasonably happy indoors.
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| Anthurium clarinervum | easy to propagate from seed, beautiful white veined tough as nails velvet leaves.
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| Anthurium colonicum | this has an especially thick spadix
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| Anthurium corrugatum | the one I have is tiny, from Ecuagenera, with the most fragile bumpy bright green leaves.
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| Anthurium corrugatum | this appears to be a completely different plant from the one above, though the leaves both have a puckered effect.
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| Anthurium croatii | named for Tom Croat, a divided leaf
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| Anthurium crystallinum | the white veined velvet leaves sparkle. I have two different plants both bought at garden centers.
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| Anthurium dressleri | needs cool nights. Mine are about 2 years old from seeds and doing well.
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| Anthurium dressleri x radicans | one of the few crosses I have. It's unclear if this is really the species radicans or the dressleri cross.
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| Anthurium flavolineatum | flowers when quite small, and has a beautiful striped spathe.
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| Anthurium friedrichsthalii | another strap leaf, this one likes to grow head down, and will crawl over the edge of the pot until it can.
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| Anthurium hoffmannii | Very dark, velvety leaf - beautiful
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| Anthurium lapoanum | another bumpy leaved one from Ecuagenera.
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| Anthurium longifolium | this flowers for me ( purple spadix! ) regularly, but I have yet to get two flowers for cross-pollenation.
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| Anthurium longipeltatum | got this from MOBOT, the leaves are fairly tough and a very dark matte green.
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| Anthurium luxuriens | a tough quilted leaf, this used to be called splendidum. The true splendidum is apparently requiring of high altitude, high humidity conditions and very delicate, which these are not. TC was started from seed and now they are … everywhere.
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| Anthurium ovatifolium | from seedlings from ABG. Two years old and it's about 2 inches tall.
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| Anthurium papillilaminum | this is the true papillilaminum, which doesn't have a velvety leaf. Deep green with an orange spadix. Still very pretty.
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| Anthurium peltigerum | an odd highland variety. These tend to die on me after a year or so for some reason.
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| Anthurium podophyllum | I did not know how big this gets when I bought it. I'm going to be sorry. Very sorry.
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| Anthurium pseudospectabile | This is supposed to get even bigger than spectabile - one of the huge strap-leaves.
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| Anthurium radicans | This creeping anthurium with dark puckered leaves needs very little light.
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| Anthurium reflexinervum | a crinkled birdnest type with very light green, thin and brittle leaves.
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| Anthurium sp. "Black" | the notorious black flowered andreanum type. It likes it cool and relatively dark.
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| Anthurium spectabile | a big strapleaf ( 4" wide, to several feet long )
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| Anthurium tysonii | velvety cardboard. Name is suspect, being from Ecuagenera.
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| Anthurium veitchii | the king of the genus. Long, ruffled leaves. Likes it a bit cool at night. Now available through tissue culture, but not this one.
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| Anthurium vittariifolium | the most popular strapleaf, in all probability. Leaves are thin and long, up to 3 feet in my greenhouse.
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| Anthurium warocqueanum | the queen of the genus. This can get very big if it likes your climate, but it needs cool nights and humidity and something to climb. Again available from tissue culture, and again this is not that one.
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| Anthurium wendlingeri | thin strapleaf with the most amazing flower. The spadix gets maybe a foot or two long, and curly, but apparently only curls when its been fertilized. The leaves are up to 4 feet long in the suboptimal conditions of my greenhouse, so just imagine it in nature.
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| Araucaria araucana | The ancient monkey puzzle tree. Those leaves are sharp.
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| Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus | One of the living rocks. In that it acts like a rock, but it's alive. Very slow growing for me, but apparently has a nice flower with time.
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| Aristolochia californica | A. californica is supposedly native to where I'm living right now, but I have not seen it in the wild. A medium flowered vine.
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| Aristolochia debilis | Cut little duchman's pipe that actually looks like a pipe. From China and used in herbal medicine.
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| Aristolochia fimbriata | A cool miniature tuberous aristolochia that does well outdoors for me. The flowers are small, but complex, with a wide mouth ringed by tendrils. This clone is from UC Davis.
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| Aristolochia gigantea | Aristolochia gigantea is a large flowering tropical aristolochia, and I'm trying to grow it outdoors in northern california, which will probably result in its demise. But they survive some years…
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| Aristolochia grandiflora | Grandiflora is even larger than Aristolochia gigantea.
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| Aristolochia manshuriensis | another Chinese Aristolochia, flowers not very impressive.
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| Aristolochia trilobata | grows and flowers well for me outside. Somewhat rotten smelling, though.
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| Arum pictum | Arum italicum grows everywhere here, but nobody seems to have planted any of the many other Arums that should do well too.
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| Asarum splendens | From the wild ginger family, as usual the complex but hidden flowers beneath the beauitfully white-splotched leaves.
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| Begonia boliviensis | a pendant plant with beautiful red flowers. Notable as the parent of many of the basket type hybrids we have today.
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| Begonia rajah | supposedly delicate ( high humidity ) does very well for me in the greenhouse in under the benches.
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| Begonia rex cultivar | picked up this one at the garden center and don't have the heart to get rid of the pretty little thing.
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| Begonia soli mutatai | the leaves of this begonia change color when exposed to sunlight. Not over time - within minutes.
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| Begonia sp. | A beautiful and small begonia I found growing in the SJSU Greenhouse complex.
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| Bowiea volubilis | green bulb and the strangest stringy leaves. It turns out the leaves are actually not the leaves but the petiole.
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| Brugmansia x candida "Double White" | very fragrant in the evenings, double white flower like it says. Thought to be a hybrid between Brugmansia aurea and B. versicolor.
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| Brugmansia "Charles Grimaldi" | Named after the late Charles Grimaldi, a California landscape designer.
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| Bulbophyllum echinolabium | huge flowers for a bulbophyllum. Almost a foot long, potentially.
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| Burbidgea scheizocheila | this ginger flowers well for me near Halloween, which is very appropriate.
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| Caladium humboldtii v. Marcel | a tiny mutation of C. humboldtii discovered by Marcel Lecouffle in a tc batch.
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| Caladium humboldtii | a pretty little caladium, of special significance in the caribbean. Small green leaves that can almost be covered with white splotches.
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| Caladium picturatum | another pretty caladium with long leaf blades, dotted with pink, red and white. Again, special in the caribbean.
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| Caladium schomburgkii | white striped green leaves with a barely detectable red sinus.
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| Calathea burle-marxii Blue Ice | Flowering calathea with light blue infloresences. Otherwise not particularly notable.
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| Calathea musaica | The fine bar patterns on the leaves of this low growing ginger relative have to be seen to be believed.
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| Calathea plowmanii | Part of the Tim Plowman collection, this small calathea has green leaves patterened in a handsome black.
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| Canna indica | Indian shot. There are many many cannas available, but almost no species. Though the flowers are merely nice, the black seeds are round and very hard and the tubers are edible.
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| Carex cilomarginata "Treasure Island" | a little grassy landscaping thing.
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| Carnegiea gigantea | my saguaro is 5" tall…
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| Cautleya gracilis | a hardy ginger with some pretty flowers. Grows and flowers well outdoors in northern California, and rumored to grow well much further north.
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| Cercestis mirabilis | from Africa, the juvenile leaves are beautifully decorated with while blotches. It reproduces at this age by runners like some sort of mutant tropical strawberry. Grows well in some shade.
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| Ceropegia sp "starry night" |
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| Chamaecyparis pisifera cyano viridis | I have here a miniature form of the boulevard cypress, growing into a nicely shaped tree at about 3 feet tall.
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| Chimonanthus praecox | This is a fragrant winter flowering bush.
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| Cirrhopetalum fascinator | From Malaysia and Laos, produces one flower per stem.
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| Cirrhopetalum rothschildianum | From India with umbels of 5-6 large reddish flowers.
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| Cirrhopetalum trisetum | Endemic to the Phillipines, small umbels of several light colored flowers.
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| Cirrhopetalum umbellatum | Small umbels of about a dozen spotted flowers.
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| Cissus amazonica | narrow leaves, green on top with white veins, burgundy underneath. A shingle plant.
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| Clerodendrum thompsoniae | famous african plant with panicles of white and red flowers. Grows in a sheltered location outdoors. Barely.
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| Clivia sp. Yellow Flower | got these seedlings several years ago on e-bay, and they all turned out yellow as promised.
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| Colocasia esculenta Black | taro with jet black leaves
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| Cordyline terminalis | A "ti" plant originally purchased as a little log on the Jungle Ride at Disneyland in the '80's. More seriously, it's used in traditional polynesian culture for cooking and for clothing, among other things. No relation to tea ( Camellia sinensis ), but it is related to "Lucky Bamboo".
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| Coryanthes leucocorys | The bucket orchids are related to stanhopeas, but they have even more outrageously large and complex flowers.
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| Coryanthes verruclinata | The bucket orchids are related to stanhopeas, but they have even more outrageously large and complex flowers.
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| Crassula lycopodioides | This succulent mimics a very small lycopodium.
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| Cryptanthus microglaziovii | like little palm trees. Prickly little palm trees.
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| Cycas revoluta | Your basic sago palm. Not much to say here, except that on some south pacific islands, sago is apparently a major source of food.
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| Cymbidium finlaysonianum | large sized, hot growing epiphyte from southeast Asia. Not like the ones we grow outdoors at all.
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| Cymbidium tracyanum | This orchid grows outdoors year round for me, and provides a beautiful floral display in the early spring.
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| Cyrtosperma johnstonii | a semi-aquatic that can get large and spiny
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| Dahlia imperialis | a tree dahlia. My clone from Plant Delights has purple flowers. It reaches the eaves of my house every year.
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| Dendrobium aggregatum | this thing is growing in a basket with no substrate. Flowers in the spring with lots of yellow in a cascade beneath it.
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| Dendrobium kingianum | This pretty little dendrobium grows and multiplies outdoors readily for us.
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| Dendrobium lichenastrum | a very miniature dendrobium living on a 3 inch cork plaque.
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| Dendrobium prenticei | another very miniature dendrobium living on a 3 inch cork plaque.
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| Dendrobium torreseae | a third very miniature dendrobium living on a 3 inch cork plaque.
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| Dicksonia antarctica | tree fern, popular outdoors in my zone.
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| Dioscorea mexicana | A bright green vine rises from this tortise shell shaped tuber, if it gets enough water. If not, the vine dies and it goes dormant. I've always had a difficult time telling if these were dormant or dead, so I try to keep mine watered.
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| Dischidia imbricata | This dischidia grows its leaves very close to the bark of the tree it's climbing, and ants can nest underneath.
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| Dischidia ovata | flat leaves are patterned like a watermelon. A very strong grower.
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| Dischidia rafflesiana | pickle plant with 3 inch pickles that normally house ants. In fact, before I found out that they were farming scale, it did house ants.
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| Dischidia rafflesiana | this may be a smaller version or another species. D. major is apparently synonymous.
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| Dischidiopsis sp Thailand | This small-leaved dischidia has a waffle pattern of raised veins on its leaves.
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| Dorstenia foetida | These fig relatives have weird asterisk shaped flowers and can shoot their ripe seeds out a fair distance.
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| Dorstenia sp. B&L 751 | These fig relatives have weird asterisk shaped flowers and can shoot their ripe seeds out a fair distance.
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| Dracaena goldieana | Named after the Rev. Hugh Goldie, an American missionary in West Africa in the 19th century. This plant has beautiful light green leaves striped in darker green.
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| Dracontium amazonense | Dracontiums are south America's answer to the Amorphophallus. Stem patterning is where it's at, and it tends to be very moss-like.
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| Dracontium amazonense |
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| Dracontium asperum |
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| Dracontium species Flat Top |
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| Drimposis maculata | A small growing African bulb with nicely spotted leaves.
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| Drosera aliciae | From the cape of South Africa, an otherwise normal looking rosette.
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| Drosera binata ssp. multifida | A perennial multiple forked sundew from Australia, goes dormant in the winter and requires some dryness during dormancy.
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| Drosera broomensis "white flower" | Petiolaris complex sundew, all green.
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| Drosera burmannii | Drosera burmannii is found in northern and eastern Australia, India, China, Japan, and south east Asia. There is a striking all-green form, and the rosettes tend to be more stubby than most. It is an annual, however, and difficult to maintain without re-sowing continuously.
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| Drosera capillaris | Native to the southeast US.
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| Drosera cistiflora | A winter growing, summer dormant, sundew native to South Africa. Grows a stalk with long, thin leaves from a basal rosette.
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| Drosera dielsiana | South African typical rosetted sundew.
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| Drosera madagascariensis | Spoon-shaped sundew leaves on a stalk.
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| Drosera nidiformis | Drosera nidiformis is found in tropical southern Africa. It tends to be an annual in cultivation.
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| Drosera paradoxa "pink flower" | drosera paradoxa is probably my favorite. This clone is bright red and holds its sticky pads on long individule petioles.
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| Drosera petiolaris site #2 | rosette of round leaves held high on long thing petioles.
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| Drosera pygmea | A pygmy drosera - plants the size of a dime.
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| Drosera scorpioides | A giant pygmy sundew, produces gemmae an grows leaves off a central stalk.
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| Drosera sessilifolia | an annual sundew, similar to D. burmannii
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| Epiphyllum cartagense | a species epiphyllum with smaller white flowers
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| Epiphyllum oxypetallum | species of the night flowering epiphytic cactus.
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| Epiphyllum sp. 3 |
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| Epiphyllum sp. 4 | Pink with hilights
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| Epiphyllum sp. 6 | Pink with red
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| Epiphyllum sp. 7 | Yellow
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| Epiphyllum sp. 9 |
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| Epiphyllum sp. 12 | Red/Pink
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| Epiphyllum sp. 15 | Red with hilights
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| Epiphyllum sp. Red or Pink |
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| Epiphyllum Apricot | It's a light pink and orange - basically apricot.
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| Epiphyllum Blazon | Red
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| Epiphyllum Fiesta de Flores | Red with Pink
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| Epiphyllum Gold Medal | White with Yellow
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| Epiphyllum Raving Red | Your basic red Epi.
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| Epiphyllum Seven Seas |
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| Epithelantha micromeris | A button cactus covered in small tufts of hairy spines.
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| Eucharis x grandiflora | The amazon lily is hardy in low light conditions, but somewhat slug prone.
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| Euphorbia davyi | One of two medusoid type euphorbias from the northern part of South Africa. Grows long, moderately thin stems crowned by small leaves.
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| Euphorbia globosa | From South Africa (Eastern Cape Province, Uitenhage and Port Elisabeth area)
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| Euphorbia meloformis | very similar in look to E. obesa, but with long and persistant flower stalks.
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| Euphorbia neohumbertii Blue Leaf | This euphorbia has it all - interesting flowers, a patterened, club shaped body, and a crown of pretty leaves.
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| Euphorbia neohumbertii Green Leaf | This euphorbia has it all - interesting flowers, a patterened, club shaped body, and a crown of pretty leaves.
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| Euphorbia submammillaris f. pfersdorfii | small growing euphorbia with snake-like stems crowned by rounded buttons. It's pretty weird looking, I admit.
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| Ficus elastica Burgundy | the popular rubber tree houseplant, but very dark reddish leaves.
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| Fortunella sp. Nagami Kumquat | kumquat is a pretty plant year round. The skin of the fruits is very sweet and citrusy, while the pulp is very sour, even in ripe fruit.
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| Geogenanthus undatus | Peruvian plant, low growing and fills a pot well. Hard to find much more information on it.
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| Gingko biloba | This gingko tree has been kept small through pruning. Along with the cycads, redwoods and arucaria, Gingko has been around a very long time with very little change.
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| Grammatophyllum scriptum var citrinum | a big plant with a big yellow flower stalk. Completely without the markings that give the species its name.
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| Gunnera magellanica | These Gunnera are all smaller relatives of the huge, cool growing Gunnera manicata/chilensis/etc.
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| Gunnera perpensa | I now have two different things called G. perpensa which look nothing alike.
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| Gunnera perpensa | This G. perpensa is from a Strybing arboretum plant sale.
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| Haemanthus albiflos | evergreen and the most widespread haemanthus. Probably the easiest to keep.
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| Haemanthus carneus | Found in the Somerset East area of the Eastern Cape in Acacia thicket and grassland. It has the same growth pattern as H. humilis in the wild and can get fairly large.
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| Haemanthus conccineus | Found across a wide region in both summer and winter rainfall areas. Flowers in autumn.
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| Haemanthus deformis | another evergreen haemanthus that likes shade.
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| Haemanthus humilis v. humilis Giant | shade growing selection with leaves purported to get to the size of a tractor seat
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| Haemanthus lancefolius | Winter grower with white flowers.
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| Haemanthus pauculifolius | the third evergreen species, again likes shade.
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| Haemanthus sanguineus | widely distributed, mainly in winter rainfall areas.
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| Haemanthus unifoliatus | found in Cape Province, Namaqualand. Like the name says, it produces just a single solitary leaf.
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| Hapaline coloniae | a little aroid with silver marked leaves.
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| Haworthia fasciata | green succulent leaves in small rosettes, striped with thin raised white lines.
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| Hedera sp. |
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| Heliamphora minor | heliamphora are South American pitcher plants, mostly from the Tepuis. This is the smallest, and probably prettiest one.
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| Heliamphora minor |
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| Heliamphora nutans |
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| Helicodiceros muscivorus | The dead horse arum, winter growing in a mediterranean climate.
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| Heucherella "Sunspot" | A neat little gaudy landscape plant.
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| Hibiscus schizopetalus | this hibiscus has pendant flowers an very heavily divided petals.
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| Hoya archboldiana | huge quarter sized flowers and a sweet smell. This is probably the easiest large hoya to grow.
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| Hoya kentiana | Originally from the Phillipines, with lanceolate leaves, this small hoya flowers easily.
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| Hoya kerii | tough, large, light green, rounded leaves on a robust vine. The flowers are smaller than you would think.
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| Hoya macgillvrayii | another big hoya with big flowers
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| Hoya pubicalyx | Originally mis-id as hoya purpureofusca, smells like grape kool-aid and survives great as a houseplant.
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| Hoya tsangii | Originally from the Phillipines, with lanceolate leaves, this small hoya flowers easily.
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| Hydnophytum formaricarum Horne Form | Largest growing form of the species. The caudex on this species can get to be a foot across and look like chiseled hunks of granite.
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| Hydnophytum moseleyanum ABG 90-1070 | A lowland species from New Guinea and northern Queensland. Probably the most common form in cultivation, but often mislabeled as H. formaricarum.
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| Hydnophytum moseleyanum | An ant plant that easily produces beautiful orange berries. Grows a massive caudex which has hollow passages for ants. This was formerly labeled H. formaricarum, but it is not.
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| Impatiens niamniamensis | an easy flowering impatiens which grows very quickly.
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| Kerria japonica | a hardy deciduous shrub with yellow flowers.
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| Laurus nobilis | sweet bay, an herb.
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| Lecanopteris curtisii | This ant fern has a nice grey/blue/green rhizome.
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| Lecanopteris curtisii | This little ant fern may by synonymous with L. dalzelii, but Frank Omilan says he sees morphological differences in older plants. Whatever it is, it's pretty.
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| Lecanopteris sinuosa | the most widely distributed ant fern. Ants can live within the hollow rhizomes.
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| Ledbouria cooperi | beautiful striped leaves, goes dormant in winter.
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| Ledbouria "Gary Hammer" | striped and spotted leaves, grape-like clusters of flowers throughout the summer.
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| Licuala peltata var sumawongii | this palm has huge undivided leaves. Heaven knows what will happen if it gets to anywhere near full size in my greenhouse.
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| Ligularia tussilaginea "Gigantea" | the giant ligularia has leaves maybe a foot across at most, but it stops traffic in the front yard and it keeps the snails well fed.
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| Macropiper excelsum | a small tree endemic to New Zealand.
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| Magnolia sieboldii | a small tree with cup shaped white flowers, appearing after the leaves. Odd for a magnolia.
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| Monadenium reflexum | A member of the Euphorbiaceae, from SE Ethiopia & NE Kenya. Mostly notable for it's shape.
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| Monolena primulaflora | These very small seeds were sown on long fibre sphagnum and will be kept moist.
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| Monstera karstenianum | Though the naming of this is somewhat questionable, it's a shingler.
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| Monstera pitterii (hort) | This Monstera has small leaves with swiss cheese holes.
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| Monstera siltepecana El Salvador | small leaves patterned in silver and green on a vine.
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| Musella lasiocarpa | The famous cold hardy chinese yellow banana. This flowers for me only after a cold winter, but it survives well outside and grows quickly.
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| Myrmecodia beccarii | A species with succulent leaves and white fruits from Australia.
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| Myrmecodia beccarii | A species with succulent leaves and white fruits from Australia.
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| Myrmecodia platytyrea ssp. Antoinii | From New Guinea and Australia. The leaf bases (clypeoli) on this species line up on the stem like the kernals on a cob of corn in mature plants.
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| Myrmecodia platytyrea | another ant plant with a swolen stem. Also produces lots of berries fairly easily when mature. Rots if allowed to dry out or get too hot or cold, though.
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| Myrmecodia sp. Irian Jaya | Imported by Frank from Europe, the europeans suspect it's M. lamii, but Frank isn't sure about that. Supposedly highland. It is unique in narrow or spatulate leaves, a bicolored caudex and wings that go all the way around the leaf bases (clypeoli).
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| Myrmecodia sp. | This is probably in all reality, and given the growth pattern, a hydnophytum. But I'll leave it as it was labeled when I got it for now.
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| Myrmecodia tuberosa dahlii | The form with a tan or tan/green caudex and red fruits from the island of New Britian. The roots are thick in older plants and in nature the plants often hang suspended by the roots.
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| Myrmecodia tuberosa | The naming of these is a little unclear. Generally, the Myrmecodia sold in trade have a caudex with soft spines and furrows. The hydnophytum have a smooth spineless caudex. Species determination is poor in the trade, but a lot of things are going to get officially lumped together under M. tuberosa anyway.
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| Myrmecodia tuberosa | This is a macro picture of an M. tuberosa flower. Otherwise plant is the same source as above.
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| Myrmecodia tuberosa | The caudex is reddish-brown and can get to be the size of a football.
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| Neofinetia falcata | An very popular orchid in Japan.
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| Nepenthes alata | named for the prominent wings on the pitchers.
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| Nepenthes albomarginata | named for a white band on near the peristome of the pictchers.
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| Nepenthes bicalcarata | the large growing and famous fanged pitcher plant.
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| Nepenthes bicalcarata | This is the nepenthes with two fangs protruding from the top of the pitcher. It also can get quite large.
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| Nepenthes burbidgeae | highland species from Mt. Kinabalu, Borneo.
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| Nepenthes densiflora | highland species from Sumatra. Tends to sprout multiple basal shoots.
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| Nepenthes diatas | from Gunung Bandahara, in Aceh, Sumatra. Highland at 2400-2700m.
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| Nepenthes gracilis Red | easy to grow and common, almost a weed, but still very interesting for its pitchers and deep colors.
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| Nepenthes macfarlanei | a highland species from penninsula Malaysia
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| Nepenthes mirabilis var. echinostoma | The peristome of this pitcher is reminiscent of the upper pitchers of truncata.
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| Nepenthes ovata | from Sumatra, highland around 1800-1900m.
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| Nepenthes pilosa | A mildly furry pitchered plant, which has been with me for many years in one or more states of decline. Lately it's been on the road to recovery… again.
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| Nepenthes rafflesiana | These plants grow very well in lowland conditions, pitchering profusely. The squat pitchers are heavily spotted with red.
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| Nepenthes rajah | an ultra-highland species that eventually gets quite large.
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| Nepenthes sibuyanensis SIBT-28 | from Sibuyan Island, Philippines. Highland species.
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| Nepenthes truncata | this gets quite large. Truncata refers to the leaves.
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| Nepenthes veitchii "H" | Supposedly highland, it has a nicely striped perisome and brightly colored pitchers. They feel a little fuzzy.
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| Nepenthes ventricosa | probably one of the easiest, yet still beautiful with bright red pitchers in adequate light.
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| Ornithogalum convallarioides | A small bulb native to Madagascar. An excellent slug attractant, and otherwise notable for small white star-shaped flowers widely spaced on a delicate stalk.
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| Osmanthus armatus | Large multi-branched shrub with thick lustrous dark green spiny margined leaves Fragrant cream-white flowers in autumn . Dark violet fruit. From China.
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| Osmanthus decorus | Linear, dark evergreen foliage borne in pairs along low-spreading horizontally planed stems, coated in early spring with fragrant axillary white flowers.
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| Osmanthus delavayi | A large evergreen shrub with small toothed leaves. It was introduced to France in 1890 by Abbe Jean Marie Delavay (1834-1895). Small white fragrant flowers in early spring.
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| Osmanthus fragrans | the sweet olive has an unmistakable and very strong sweet apricot fragrance in the evenings. Used for flavoring tea.
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| Osmanthus heterophyllus (ilicifolius) | The holly leafed osmanthus has fragrant flowers in the fall, but also sharp, spiny leaves.
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| Osmanthus x fortunei | Actually a hybrid between heterophyllus and fragrans with spiny leaves and fragrant flowers.
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| Osmanthus yunnanensis | Mildly fragrant white flowers during late winter.
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| Pachypodium lamerei | bought as a 2 inch high houseplant at home depot many years ago, it's 3 feet tall now.
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| Pachypodium namaquanum | grows in South Africa in a winter rainfall area.
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| Paphiopedilum delenatii | A pink flowered ladyslipped orchid with spotted leaves.
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| Peperomia caperata | I have a particularly dark colored form of this popular houseplant. Relative of the pipers - just look at the long infloresence.
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| Peristeria elata | a fairly large-growing orchid. Also called the Dove Orchid, it's the national flower of Panama. Takes a lot of room, heat and light to flower.
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| Peristeria guttata | Another, less well known member of the peristeria family.
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| Peristeria pendula | This peristeria orchid should have pendulous blooms, if it ever flowers.
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| Phaedranassa dubia | Blooms after periods of drought, and can be induced by faking a drought for a couple months. Native to montane rainforest of Ecuador.
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| Philodendron andreanum | velvety leaved, and possible synonymous to melanochrysum. The leaves can get very large if given proper conditions and a totem.
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| Philodendron gigas | A philodendron with large, dark, velvety leaves.
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| Philodendron gloriosum | originally sold to me as andreanum, it became obvious it was not when it grew up. But it's not exactly the greatest clone of gloriosum either. Maybe something else entirely.
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| Philodendron gloriosum | velvet leaf with white veins. This is a nice clone.
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| Philodendron mamei | looks like a small philo. Plowmanii
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| Philodendron melanochrysum | velvety leaved, and possible synonymous to andreanum. The leaves can get very large if given proper conditions and a totem.
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| Philodendron plowmanii | another part of the Tim Plowman collection, ruffled petiole, big bold splotched leaves.
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| Philodendron rugosum | pigskin philodendron with thick, bumpy texture to the leaves.
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| Philodendron scandens miduhoi | a velvety version of the philo scandens houseplant thing
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| Philodendron scandens Normal Clone | this is the unkillable heart leaf philodendron from Target
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| Philodendron sodiroi | another philo like sp. Silver with silver dotted leaves.
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| Philodendron sp. silver | This could be Philodendron brandtianum (variifolium), but it wasn't ID'd when I obtained it. Nice, highly splotched leaves on this climber.
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| Philodendron squamiferum | the red squamule laden petioles give this its name. A good grower for me in the greenhouse such that I must prune regularly.
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| Philodendron tenue | huge ruffled leaves, doesn't like the cold.
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| Philodendron verrucosum | from Ecuagenera, this is velvety with yellow-green markings on it and really pretty.
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| Philodendron wend-imbe | a miniature philo with not much else to recommend it. Good terrarium specimen, though.
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| Phyllostachys bambusoides | madake bamboo from Japan
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| Phyllostachys nigra | black bamboo has always been very slow to establish for me.
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| Pinguicula laueana | the only red flowered pinguicula, named after Alfred Lau.
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| Piper auritum | the crushed leaves smell of root beer. A strong grower.
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| Piper betel | famous betel leaf used in southeast asia as an adjunct to betel nut.
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| Piper crocatum | amazing patterns on the leaves of this ultra-tropical pepper.
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| Piper croceum | once difficult to find, a nice clone of this silver splotched piper is apparently now in tissue culture.
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| Piper nigrum | this piper is the source of black pepper
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| Platycerium angolense | This was once called P. elephantotis, and has larger undivided fronds. It's originally from tropical Africa.
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| Platycerium madagascariense | A staghorn fern from Madagascar, in central moist forest at elevations from 300m-700m. Needs high humidity, some say cooler conditions.
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| Pleioblastus viridistriatus | a nice tiny spreading groundcover bamboo with yellow and green striped leaves. Spreads too much for me.
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| Plumeria rubra | The cutting that doesn't like my greenhouse much, but will not die.
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| Porroglossum echidnum | Characterized by strongly rugose leaves, I haven't seen the flower yet. It's a very small orchid.
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| Pseudodracontium lacourii FG992148 | An plant donated by Fairchild Tropical Garden to the IAS auction one year.
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| Pseudolithos cubiformis | From Somalia, basically a greyish green, vaguely cube shaped, leathery skinned blob of plant material. It sounds bad, but it looks neat.
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| Pycnospatha arietina | looks like a dracontium, but it's from Asia. The easiest and largest of the two species.
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| Pyrrosia lingua | a tongue fern that is supposedly cold hardy. From Taiwan.
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| Remusatia pumila | the smaller cousin of R. vivipara, with many of the same habits including the bulbils. From the Himalayas.
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| Remusatia vivipara | aroid which generates bulbils covered with burred bulbils in the fall.
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| Rhaphidophora cryptantha | this is a shingle plant, even as an adult. Flowers underneath the leaves.
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| Rhaphidophora sp. | who knows what this really is - it's a shingler with somewhat shiny leaves.
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| Salvia microphylla "Hot Lips" | depending on the weather, we get red, red and white, or all white flowers
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| Sarracenia alata Tyler Co.TX | Sarracenia alata is the only Gulf Coast species of pitcher plant found west of the Mississippi River.
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| Sarracenia flava Walton Co. FL | Tall slender pitchers can grow up to a meter high.
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| Sarracenia leucophylla | pitcher plants from the American Southeast. These are my favorites, with red and white patterns on the pitcher tops.
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| Sarracenia oreophylla | Sarracenia oreophila grows in bogs in the southern Appalachians, and is listed under the federal Endangered Species Act. Sadly, it's not very notable other than for its rarity.
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| Sarracenia purpurea | a low growing pitcher plant gets a very deep burgandy in bright sunlight.
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| Sarracenia sp. | Funky pitchers, but no parental data available. It's a good grower.
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| Sarracenia x "Super Green Giant" | I got this at a raffle, but it's turned out the be a very nice selection.
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| Scindapsus pictus | green leaves splotched with silver, a good grower.
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| Scindapsus species (siamense?) | a definite shingler, with crystalline spotting. Likes to crawl up tile backer board, among other things.
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| Sedum multiceps | sedum on stalks like little palm trees.
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| Sinocrassula yunnanense | this sedum relative is from China. It's very brittle so the leaves drop off easily and sprout… more Sinocrassula yunnanense.
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| Stanhopea oculata | Large pendant flowers look like butterflies or bees and smell like mint chocolate chip. The easiest Stanhopea to flower for me.
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| Stanhopea tigrina | Huge strongly marked pendant spotted flowers, and a nice fruity scent.
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| Stapelia sp. | this succulent has nice big flowers with a fly-attracting scent.
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| Streptocarpus dunnii | This gesneriad features a single leaf which grows to nearly a foot long.
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| Syngonium wendlandii | this form of syngonium has small, deep green velvet leaves - a very nice one that grows in low light and high humidity. It could actually be syngonium rayii, given that most S. wendlandii seem to have more markings on the veins.
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| Tacca integrifolia | with a flower like this, I need more taccas. This is a white batflower.
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| Thunbergia mysorensis | one of the world's most popular tropical vines will flower at a reasonably small size.
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| Typhonium brownii | an Australian aroid, commonly refered to as "Stinky Lily"
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| Typhonium giganteum | Given that it's flowered for me at a small size, I'm going to question the name on this plant.
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| Typhonium orbifolium | Little round ground-hugging leaves on a stinky plant
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| Typhonium sp. |
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| Typhonium venosum giant Indian form | It is unclear whether this particular clone is really that much different. It certainly hasn't been as weedy for me.
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| Typhonium venosum | aka Sauromatum venosum, S. guttatum. This has now been lumped into Typhonium, but appears to change daily…
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| Vanilla planifolia | The vanilla orchid. Its seed pods are the source of vanilla. Ripe pods are picked and then dried and cured for many months.
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| Xanthosoma atrovirens appendiculatum | This unusual form of Xanthosoma has a little leafy pocket under the main leaves.
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| Xanthosoma lindenii Magnificum | Somewhat commmon as a houseplant, it still has beautiful leaves. May have been subsumed back into Caladium again by now.
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| Zamia pseudoparasitica | The only described epiphytic cycad. Supposedly grows slowly, but mine have finally produced cones for me - and it turns out that I might have a mated pair.
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| Zamioculcas sp. | There's supposed to be only one species of Zamioculcas, but the plant I have has much thinner, more pointed leaves than the normal type, and thinner stems as well.
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| Zamioculcas zamiifolia | An almost unkillable houseplant. Reproduces vegetatively from the leaves, among other things. It's actually a tuberous aroid, and endemic to Africa.
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| Zantedeschia odorata | A fragrant calla species, which incidentally grows somewhat larger for me than the more common Z. aethiopica. The scent is described elsewhere as similar to freesia.
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| Zantedeschia "hercules" | This plant was bought directly from the Strybing arboretum. They have quite a few growing there. Strybing got their original plant from Western Hills Nursery in Occidental, CA.
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| Zantedeschia 'hercules' | A really tall calla lily. This is a clone originating from Western Hills Nursery in Occidental, CA, and seen these days at Strybing Arboretum in San Francisco. Flower stalks to around 6 feet. Unlike the more common Z. aethiopica, this one doesn't really go dormant for me in the summer. Leaves are spotted.
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| Zanthoxylum simulans | This bush/tree is the source of Japanese Sansho, or Szechuan Peppercorns. They taste of cardamom and have a numbing effect on the tongue.
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| Zygocactus sp. curly | A curly leaved epiphytic cactus of some sort I got from a friend as a seedpod.
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