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CORMS & BULBS & TUBERS for the 2012 SEASON

CORMS & BULBS & TUBERS & similar fatty plant flesh: As a number of our customers' primary interest is collecting plants in this category, we have gathered together many offered on this website and speciality lists. While not exhaustive or comprehensive, this list of genera gives an overview of this vast group: Achimenes, Albuca, Alocasia, Amorphophallus, Arrenatherum, Baumia, Begonia, Bowiea, Bulbine, Caladium, Canna, Ceropegia, Chlorophytum, Colocasia, Cooperanthes, Crinum, Cyrtosperma, Dichorisandra, Dietes, Dioscorea, Disporum, Drimiopsis, Drimia, Eletteria, Eucharis, Eucomis, Eucrosia, Eurycles, Fockea, Gloxinia, Gonatopus, Globba, Habranthus, Haemanthus, Hedychium, Hippeastrum, Hymenocallis, Ipomea, Kaempferia, Kohleria, Lachenalia, Ledebouria, Lomatophyllum, Monadenium, Nephrolepis, Nerine, Ornithogalum, Oxalis, Phaedranassa, Pinellia, Polianthes, Protasparagus, Ranunculus, Scadoxus, Scilla, Senecio, Sinningia, Smithiantha, Stenomesson, Steudnera, Tacca, Tulbaghia, Typhonium, Vallota, Veltheimia,, Xanthosoma, Zamioculca, Zantedeschia, Zephyranthes, and Zingiber. Don't know where to start? We suggest our BULB COLLECTION.

99109 TROPICAL BULB COLLECTION (including CORMS & TUBERS): PRICE: $25.00 This includes 10 bulbs/corms/tubers from different genera. Please note to us if you want only non-dormant types and whether you'll grow these in a litegarden, in your windowsill, or in your hobby greenhouse (obviously some really spectacular ones will be chosen for those who can provide the light and humidity of a greenhouse).

30583 CALADIUM HUMBOLTII ARAC TGH TERRARIUM $ 8.50 "Miniature Caladium" Tiny green arrowhead leaves heavily marked with white, on delicate short stems. Perfect for your wardian case even though it will still probably insist on a winter dormancy. Seldom offered anywhere, even though no book on houseplants can resist a photo of such a remarkably striking minature.

30467 CALADIUM THAI BEAUTY [HYB?] ARAC HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.75. Available again early summer for 2012. There might be some available at other times of the year. Check with us. This plant has a dormant cycle and we ship plants coming into leaf. Fabulous nearly transparent unabashed pink leaves, flared out into a heart with "ears" seemingly bending light through the hunter green and vanilla mosaic of veins if given very bright light and constant moisture and fertilizer--as you can see from the photo, a thousand words cannot touch this flamboyant character. Wow!

58427 CALATHEA JESTER MAR TGH HP PRICE: $ 16.00 Large statured new Calathea with irregular and random splotches of white over a patterned background. Great new plant.

41352 CALATHEA LIETZEI MAR TGH HP PRICE: $ 6.00 Arching undulate oval bottomed lance leaves of dark bronzed velvet with pale midribs and olive stripes. Brazilian species of modest size with the endearing habit of producing plantlets along the bloom clusters creating tuffets of bronzy leaves midair. Does not demand the constant humidity and does not brown as the soil ages with accumulations of salts as do some of its more spectacular brethern.

40091 CALATHEA LOUISAE MAR TGH HP PRICE: $ 12.00 Tapered leaves feathered pale lime champange from the midribs; soft rose blushed reverse. Easier to grow than most its kin as seems more resistent to mealybugs and spider mite in low humidity locations.

40093 CALATHEA RUFIBARBA [ACCUMINATA] MAR TGH TERRARIUM PRICE: $ 7.50 Erect hirsute cinnamon leaves, purplish reverse; dense clumper. This one is small enough to add a vertical accent to a Wardian Case composition.

66900 CALATHEA THAI BEAUTY MAR TERR TGH PRICE: $ 50.00 Remarkable bold cream & lime variegation creating a different irregular pattern on each upward whorled leaf. Most probably in the C. lietzei complex. While many (most) Calatheas are highly patterned and colored, this is the only selection of which we are aware which is technically "variegated." with remarkable results.

40096 CALLIANDRA EMARGINATA MINIMA LEG TGH HP PRICE: $ 5.75 "Powder Puff" balls of crimson stamens throughout the year (if given adequate light and good fertilizer) on attractive woody trunks softened by ferny pinnate leaves -- very popular for bonsai or flowering pot subject. Do not allow to dry out. Ever.

50501 CALLISIA CONGESTA VARIEGATA COMM HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 Tightly whorled heads of purple-toned leaves with striking wide white bands on thick succulent running stems; showy basket subject; outstanding in urns and windowboxes to cascade down in dramatic color.

50502 CALLISIA ELEGANS [SETCREASEA STRIATA] COMM HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 "Pinstriped Inch Plant" native to central Mexico. Beautiful dark slate green leaves with trim silvery-tan parallel stripes clasping mat-forming fat stems. Somewhat longer & darker leaves than Ballyii, but also needing the succulent culture of Ballyii & Cyanotis. Flourishes with full light and perfect drainage. Coddling can kill.

50504 CALLISIA FRAGRANS MELNICKOFF COMM HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 Impressive glossy leaves banded in bold ochre-gold. Striking sight as the cascading succulent stems clasped by these bold jade like leaves liven up any urn, windowbox or hanging basket. The species name reflects the unusual scent of the "Spiderwort" flowers occassionally produced mid winter on impressively branched inflorescences.

50503 CALLISIA FRAGRANS COMM HP TGH PRICE: $ 3.50 Formerly Spironema or Tradescantia dracaenoides--the latter providing a good take on the foliage as mimic. Upright cupped whorls of purple-edged leaves give character of "False Bromeliad"; multiple cascading runners effective in hanging basket use. Vigorous Mexican native with scented spiderwort flowers on impressively branched infloresences usually occurring mid-winter. Considered medicinal.

50511 CALLISIA ITSY BITSY INCH PLANT [SP] COMM HP PRICE: $ 3.50 Dense mats of waxy succulent lime-green leaves & tiny eggshell- blue fls; although this beautiful glossy beauty remains the most commonly grown basket plant of the spiderworts, this species is still unidentified! Quite content grown in full sun and thus a natural for growing as a low cover on moss topiaries and even quite successful on living wreaths. Thus a perfect candidate to fill in the bottoms of and cascade from your summer urns or windowboxes as is easy to grow and with its bright gloss is a complement to any companion plant

50512 CALLISIA REPENS VARIEGATA COMM HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 Tiny glossy "Pink Button" leaves striped or fully pink and cream--be sure to remove any solid green reversions which will quickly overwhelm the more fragile variegated sections. Marketed as 'Bianca' in Europe; sometimes this is confused with the much larger statured Tradescantia 'Laekenensis Rainbow' in the wholesale trade. For other close cousins, please see Triprogandra, Tradescantia, Zebrina, as well as the "Splendid Spiderworts" collection.

41009 CALVOA SESSILIFLORA MEL TERR TGH R PRICE: $ 6.25 Choice Congo shrublet with pairs of shiny, haired lime green flowers on forked cymes; of easy culture as a pot plant, yet demure enough to enhance any Wardian case grouping: the blooms and cute tripart seed capsules quickly reveal its kinship to its big boned Tibouchina cousins.
50510 CAMPELIA ZANONIA MEXICAN FLAG COMM TGH PRICE: $ 22.00 Spectacular spiderwort with whorls of foot-long ivory-white striped leaves with reddish edges on bamboo-like striated stalks topped by white spiderwort blossoms; must have warmth & good light. Most definitely not a houseplant. In European trade usually offered as Dichorisandra albo-lineata, while some authorities now consider this to be in the genus Tradescantia! Stunning enough to warrant building a greenhouse to accomodate this gentle giant.

50509 CAMPELIA ZANONIA SCREAM COMM TGH PRICE: $ 10.00 Bamboo-like stalks topped with stepladder-whorls of glossy leaves highlighted with narrow white mint steaks; this popular selection by Frieling here at the GHW is less spectacular than 'Mexican Flag," but is more tolerant of shade and cold; this form will do well in your indoor plant room. Perhaps a Dichorisandra, possibly a tropical Tradescantia--it is vigorous enough not to care.

10102 CAMPYLONEURON ANGUSTIFOLIUM ENSIFOLIUM POLYP CGH HP PRICE: $ 35.00 "String Fern" Resembles the difficult shoestring fern (Vittaria), but this is much easier culture. Still a slow grower though; it is best to check on availability before ordering. Fronds are up to twelve inches long. Close clumping fern like an explosion.

11446 CAMPYLONEURON PHYLLITIDIS CRISTATUM POLYP CGH HP PRICE: $ 35.00 "Crested American Strap Fern" Slowly creeping rootstock anchors papery-textured erect fronds of bright green topped with elaborate tasselling; striking clone from collector Jack Craig. This is extremely slow to increase, so best check with us for availability before ordering. Very good choice for a crested footed fern for collectors desiring a smaller statured fern than those in the related Microsorium "Elkhorn" tribe; for an even smaller (and much more vigorous) crested footed fern, please see Colysis.

41510 CANNA GENERALIS STRIATUS [BENGAL TIGER] CAN TGH CGH PRICE: $ 10.00 "Bangkok indian Shot" or "Pretoria Canna" Spectacular garden canna cultivar forming dramatic clumps of brightly striped green and butter yellow leaves topped by heads of large orange flowers. Blooms in winter greenhouse as has no real dormancy cycle. We suggest to those interested in research that a quick look in the important tome, "Gardening in india," will prove that C. generalis 'Striatus' was long grown in India before exported to Pretoria where it was "rediscovered" by nurserymen unfamiliar with the specimens already present in the U.S. trade. Henry Ross was wise to resolve the confusion by declaring it to be the remarkable 'Bengal Tiger' it just is.

41952 CANNA INDICA PURPUREA / RED STRIPE [GREENLINE] CAN TGH PRICE: $ 18.00 Remarkable strong clean avacado green leaves with strong deep purplish red parallel chevroned veins suggesting a delicate transparency. Marvelous when grown as a bog subject. Try at the edge of your pool where, if content, it can reach a height of eight feet topped with a cluster of petite brilliantly carmine red blossoms.

31706 CANNA MUSAFOLIA MUS TGH PRICE: $ 22.00 Preposterously sized "Banana Canna" essential in any northern garden attempting a tropical look. From quickly clumping roots giant 15 foot stalks arise with very showy enormous leaves; the "Banana Leaved indian Shot" makes such a dramatic foliar statement that the petite carmine fls make a mere afterthought. Only for the brave. Seems to reach these hights (and even rarely produce the modest pastel carmine blossoms) in the rich soils of northern gardens, while remaining considerably shorter in the Texas and Florida climates. Horticultural gossip suggests this gargantuan originated in Peru. This fantastic performer easily earns its space in any "Tropical Look" garden design.

55505 CANNA STUTTGART [STRIATA] CAN TGH PRICE: $18.00 Sturdy erect foliage mostly bright white with shades of gray green & dark green topped with small salmon flowers toned orange & pink, with yellowish margins. Brilliant show when grown as a semi-aquatic for usually will not burn in our climate if treated as a bog plant; considered a sport of 'Omega' and more recently, a sport of 'Heliconifolia' with its small apricot blossoms. Whatever. All find this startling beauty to be of great interest as a conservatory or hobby greenhouse subject for its uniquely dramatic foliage year round if indoors. And it was for this excellent indoor performance that the late Bob Hayes (of the Brooklyn Botanic Garden) recommended this beauty when he shared it with us some years ago.

81615 CAREX ALBULA FROSTED CURLS CYP HH HT PRICE: $ 6.75 Unusual tufts of mahogany chocolate sedge-like leaves frosted pale pewter on twisted tips; very distinctive appearance in the garden or as a container plant (especially as you'll want to bring in the bleached tightly clumped zone 8 wonder for your winter garden indoors)--now quite popular when used as the "mane" or "tail" of mossed topicary animals where this very fashionable "trendy" color seems quite perfect.

80117 CAREX CARYOPHYLLEA THE BEATLES [HYB] CYP HH PRICE: $ 4.50 "Mop-headed Sedge" (Forgive the pun.) Very congested miniature swirled tufts of bright green. Not winter hardy here (although often offered as such in nurseries); but perfect in pots or in mixed summer containers; often used for texture in southern rockeries. We quite simply grow it because we like the wry name--never being able to resist a pun.

43137 CAREX FLAGELLIFERA TOFFEE TWIST CYP HH CGH PRICE: $ 6.75 New Zealand's "Weeping Chocolate Sedge" forms a perfect cleanly architectural arching clump of thickly packed irridescent coppery chocolate toned needle-like two foot blades, developing soft coral tones in cooler weather. While we've not tested its winter hardiness, several customers suggest that it is probably hardy in Z7-9--fabulous container plant for the summer deck and the winter window. And, although slower to increase than most its kin, it remains the most popular to form a formidible mane for any moss topiary lion.

40099 CARISSA GRANDIFLORA BOXWOOD BEAUTY APO HP TGH PRICE: $ 12.00 V igorous clone of "Natal Plum: with nearly rounded leathery leaves thickly placed on the nearly spineless stems; much used in large bonsai especially for the corky barks on mature trunks. Must have sunlight, evenly moist soil and adequate fertilizer to work well as a pot plant.

40100 CARISSA GRANDIFLORA GREEN CARPET APO HP TGH CGH PRICE: $ 5.50 The "Weeping Natal Plum" for limber stems cascade straight down with carpets of tiny leathery oval leaves; remarkable as a basket or wall subject in north; carpeting groundcover in subtropic climates. But most sought after as a subject for a bonsai cascade styles. We have admired old specimens grown in half pots mounted on brick or wooden walls in greenhouses which spill out in plentifully coin leaved long pendant branches to very subtle yet elegant effect.

40102 CARISSA HUMPHREYII VARIEGATA [HORT] APO HP TGH PRICE: $10.00 "Variegated Natal Plum" Coin-size waxy leaves with brilliant creamy white margins on compactly growing shrub; pinwheel fl pure white. One of the best houseplants with white variegation covered by a wax surface sufficient to prevent burning in a low humidity environment. Very slow growing. Very desirable.

40106 CARMONA MICROPHYLLA [EHRETIA BUXIFOLIA] HP CGH PRICE: $ 6.00 "Fukien Tea" Handsome woody stems with tiny glossy blackish green leaves having minute hairs; starry blossoms (typically starting in late winter) followed by bright red berries. Excellent indoor bonsai subject; from Japan where still best known as Erethia buxifolia. Do not try to grow in a low humidity locations as will reliably defoliate in dry air. Do not allow the roots to dry out as does not bounce back from drought readily. When encouraged to cling to a decorative rock or driftwood form anchored in a bonsai pot this is somewhere beyond terminally cute.

80744 CENTAUREA GYMNOCARPA CAPRI COMP HH CGH HT PRICE: $ 6.50An upright shrub from Capri with deeply dissected snowflake "Dusty Miller" leaves completely covered by a rich felted tomentose silver--which filigreed leaves completely hide the wooly white woody stems (repeat three times, very quickly). If wintered over, expect cute clusters of early rosy violet, fluffy, rayed flowers. Perfect in containers and borders. Not a Senecio or Artemisia, although a visual mimic of both through and through--and more reliable than these other genera because this can tolerate midsummer heat and humidity without the mushy scars suffered by other "Dusty Miller" types. Marketed in England sometimes as 'Colchester White' this starts out as a spindly silvery stalk and finishes as a full bodied dramatic knock-out in any garden or container design given full sun and elbow room.

40107 CENTRATHERUM INTERMEDIUM COMP CGH PRICE: $ 5.00 "Brazilian Button Flower" of Victorian gardens. Serrate leaves scented of pineapple, and thus newly marketed as the "Pineapple Sangria Plant"; quite showy bluish-lavender flowers resembling tiny Canadian Thistle blossoms, thus also called the "Martinique Batchelor's Button." Easy culture with bright light, thus excellent for use in outdoor bedding. Newly popular in urns and windowboxes; a traditional favorite in hobby greenhouses and humid plant rooms. Too much fun not to add to your mixed containers.

56568 CESTRUM AURANTIACUM SOL TGH HP PRICE: $ 5.50 The upright "Guatemalan Jasmine" presents very ornamental somewhat upright pyramidal clusters of bronzy orange tubular blossoms, distinctly but not agressively fragrant, once achieving maturity. We find that this lance leaved species usually needs to reach some size before reliably blooming. Needs sun and humidity to perform well, thus sometimes a challenge as a houseplant.

40110 CESTRUM DIURNUM [ALBUM] SOL HP CGH PRICE: $ 5.00 "Day Jessamine" or "Willow-lvd Jasmine" West indies shrub with clusters of greenish-white flowers, with petals bent backward, spearmint-fragrant by day; followed by even more dramatic and strikingly beautiful eggplant purple berries in abundant sprays so dense as to tip the branchlets. Demands bright light & even moisture for best results (not an ideal houseplant)--a traditional favorite in northern hobby greenhouses as produces much interest in mid-winter flower & late spring fruit with very low maintenance.

56569 CESTRUM ELEGANS SMITHII SOL TGH PRICE: $ 5.50 The downy foliage is topped with thick clusters of waxy tubular dusky pink fls richly scented. The humidity of most hobby greenhouses is sufficient to deter its archenemy, spider mite. This dusky softly foliaged central Mexican form is the easiest to consistently bloom in the plantroom or on the windowsill--most of its kindred insist on higher light and humidity to form and produce clusters of blossoms.

51919 CESTRUM NEWELLII [HYB] SOL TGH HP PRICE: $ 7.50 Handsome and dramatic "Red Night Blooming Jasmine" becomes a compact dark foliaged shrub with arching woody branches terminating in congested panicles of short tubular red blossoms transforming into tight clusters of purple red berries. Needs bright light to dependably maintain its status as the UNDISPUTED showoff beauty of the group. Certainly the most visually attractive of any Cestrum we grow, for even out of blossom the richly toned foliage earns it a place, although lacking the intensity of C. nocturnum's fragrance. Some botanists suggest that the red blossoms reflect an inflorescenceoresce of Cestrum fasciculatum making this a vigorous hybrid or cultivar form.

40112 CESTRUM NOCTURNUM SOL HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.00 "Night Blooming Jessamine/Jasmine" Slender nightshade shrub with open sprays of greenish white creamy tubular blossoms intensely fragrant at night, followed by white berries.

59210 CESTRUM NOCTURNUM X DIURNUM [HYB] SOL CGH PRICE: $ 4.75 This vigorous "Golden Night Jessamine" forms wide shrubs of attractively veined foliage topped with heads of bronzy gold fls opening from lilac buds; ever-blooming subtropical plant with fall colored foliage when grown outside in the south. Needs high light to bud in northern greenhouses. We've offered this for fifteen plus years, always hoping for a better name; now Tony Avent has pronounced it "Orange Peel" to the relief of all.

41761 CHAMAEDOREA METALICA PAL HP CGH PRICE: $ 6.50 Mexican "Metalic Palm" with deep blue-green leaves with odd metalic sheen accentuated by beging fused (very occasionally pinnate) to form an upward cup of undivided pinnate leaves. Black fruit. Price reflects at this time young seedlings.

50009 CHAMAERANTHEMUM VENOSUM ACAN HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "India Plant" is a low growing beautiful Brazilian native with leathery flat leaves with silver netting. Small stature and dramatic coloring assure its continuing popularity as a basic in any terrarium. For another similar Acanthus relative perfect also in terrariums, see Ruellia devosiana in our offerings.

58422 CHAMAEROPS HUMILIS PALMAE HP TGH PRICE: $ 15.00 "Dwarf Fan Palm." In all Western Mediterranean Countries, where it grows spontaneously, the leaves of the Dwarf Fan Palm are always utilised for various kinds of wickerwork. Its buds are employed as food (palm-cabbage), chiefly in North Africa, but also in Sicily where it is known as "ciafagghiuni". Another of those semi-hardy palms that some try to get through in their gardens in Zones 7 (and with lots of care) Zone 6. We consider it one of our tropicals.

20643 CHIRITA DIANE MARIE [HYB] GES TGH TERR PRICE: $ 6.25 Strikingly beautiful houseplant forming a rumpled rosette like posie of thick jadelike silver surfaced leaves with pewter line and serrate margins; many nodding lavender slipper flowers with flared mouth revealing maroon lines and lemon throat. The foliage is succulent and easily broken or crushed when being moved.

20463 CHIRITA SINENSIS HISAKO [HYB] GES HP TERR PRICE: $ 4.50 Flared rosette of very succulent serrated leaves richly traced with silver, from which rise stout stems with soft lavender pouched flaring blossoms of considerable substance. Handsome Nakayama hybrid more free-flowering than species clones. Certainly one of the easiest of all houseplants, equally at home in the windowsill, terrarium, or greenhouse/plantroom--but most smashingly splendid when grown under lights. When customers "cut down" on the number of their pet houseplants, this is never tossed out!

20646 CHIRITA SILVER SURFER [HYB] GES HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.75 Beautiful lavender blossoms, toned somewhat blue during the winter, over a whorl of pointed thick leaves with depressed pale veins appearing silvery.

20645 CHIRITA SWEET CHARITY [HYB] GES HP TGH PRICE: $ 7.25 Very dark jade like foliage; nodding slipper blossoms. The glossy succulent leaves become quite impressively dimensional.

40114 CHLOROPHYTUM AMANIENSE LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.00 Glossy broad lance leaves, orange-rust at base form arched vase shaped rosettes; Usambara Mountain species with club-like inforescense. Nice houseplant--a much smaller stature than C. macrophyllum, with much deeper green tones. Slow growing.
40115 CHLOROPHYTUM BICHETII [LAXUM] LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.75 "False Lily Turf" Marvelous tufts of small arching blades margined in ivory white; good in low light; from Gabon. "Pongol" has become a great favorite with terrarium fanciers as it maintains its petite tightly clumping tuffet outline to provide a welcome white banded foil to flashier companions. This belongs in the short "Toy Category" of the tribe as it reliably slowly clumps, never throwing out long arching shoots with plantlets. Its tuberous roots insure its survival should its human experience lapses in watering.

40116 CHLOROPHYTUM BICHETII [LAXUM] LONGWOOD EMERALD LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 7.00 Formerly offered as `Green Form'--this is a unique unusual form lacking any foliar variegation; excellent for underplanting or for featuring in a tiny bonsai pot; equally successful as a windowsill plantlet or a denizen of a small terrarium where it mimics a tinsy foliaged daylily--even with tinsy succulent tuberous roots. However the tiny white (lily family) blossoms are on a short unimpressive stem.

40117 CHLOROPHYTUM COMOSUM LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 2.00 "Spider Plant / Airplane Plant" Glossy green arched leaves; long bloom stems terminating with forks bearing tiny white starflowers, but soon bend with many thick-rooted plantlets vivipariously formed by the tiny blossoms. The basic utterly green, astoundingly vigorous species form which seldom appears in commerce now even though it was used formerly to provide early warning of high salts in water or excessive contamination in air quality by immediately developing browned leaf tips to warn its human companions of environmental problems. It will still be your canary in a cage for your house.

43117 CHLOROPHYTUM COMOSUM BONNIE PPAF LIL TGH CGH PRICE: $ 4.25 The uniquely fetching "Curly Spider Plant" with centrally striped creamy variegation but each leaf curls and swirls in the Shirley Temple tuffets, sending out abbreviated corkscrew stems with more twisted plantlets suspended in air. Oglesby introduction. This whorled, tostled, and flounced cultivar remains much smaller in stature than the other comosum cultivars.

65683 CHLOROPHYTUM COMOSUM GOLDEN GLOW LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.50 "Golden Spider Plant" Similar in stature to 'vittatum,' yet every rich green leaf blade is centered with vivid ochre and rich champagne tones--quickly clumps and sends off long shoots tipped with variegated "Airplane" offsets. Please remember that this lovely cultivar is popular for its subtle variegation, not for any brassy look--for a glow, not a shine.

40118 CHLOROPHYTUM COMOSUM MANDIANUM LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "Yellow Spider " Golden Ribbon Plant" Rather dwarf cultivar with rich yellow center stripes on curling short leaves thickly clustered; low dwarfish growing habit insures its popularity as a pot plant as its rich colors and congested habit will not elbow out its neighbors--This old old compact selection from Manda's Greenhouses has beennewly "rediscovered" as an excellent cultivar for summertime windowboxes.

65665 CHLOROPHYTUM COMOSUM STREAKER LIL HP PRICE: $ 4.50 This "Striped Airplane Plant" selection, unlike 'Vittatum,' sports a single very bright ivory stripe down the center of each deep green leaf. For the collector who must needs have the complete set.

40119 CHLOROPHYTUM COMOSUM VARIEGATUM LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "White Spider" Unusual low succulent flat outstretched leaves margined ivory; odd cultivar of remarkable endurance. Far more succulent rubbery foliage with more lateral growth habit than the rest of the tribe: thus, emerging as the best form to plant out in bedding, urns, windowboxes, and so on as survives (and even perfers) high sun and wind exposure with minimal damage--and thus by far the most satisfactory cultivar to use in breezy exposed situations.

40120 CHLOROPHYTUM COMOSUM VITTATUM LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.00 "Variegated Spider Plant" Bright wide central stripe. Dead common but reliably beautiful heirloom cultivar your grandmother grew, probably putting a few of the suspended offsets in glasses of water to amuse the grandkids. As this is so available everywhere and thus seldom ordered, please give us extra time to find and prop this for you if you order it. The following cultivar is certainly the prefered form.

58304 CHLOROPHYTUM COMOSUM WHITE LIGHTNING LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.00 "Broad Variegated Spider Plant" Clearly the clearest white center of any of the center variegated Spider Plants--as white as 'Variegatum's' margins, but in lower light conditions quickly fades into a'Vittatum' look-alike.

40121 CHLOROPHYTUM MACROPHYLLUM LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 6.00 Wide rosette of glossy ribbon leaves; club-shaped inflorescence of white starry flowers emerging from odd green bracts; one of the giant "Tropic Plantain" without plantlets forming on outarching stolons; however the occassional plantlet emerges on the short stout erect flower spikes as they ripen. This eventually needs a large pot to accommodate the mass of fleshy roots--and, yes, it will probably outlive the lot of us.

42017 CHLOROPHYTUM [ORCHIDASTRUM?] FIRE FLUSH LIL HP TGH PRICE: $ 10.00 "Copper Sierra Leone Lily" Rosette of rubbery lance leaves, a coppery tone in good ligh, with showy orangy red petioles to create a dramatic specimen houseplant. Will be equally effective as an addition to your summer patio container creations with this combination of perfect habit & hard to find coloration. Controversy suggests that this flashy creature may be a selection of C. orchidantheroides; whatever, this is full of spit and drama, rivaling the showy wide flared Neoregelias in your display. Not tolerant of any chill.
41723 CINNAMOMUM ZEALANICUM SOL TGH CGH HP PRICE: $ 45.00 NOT AVAILABLE AT THIS TIME Famous "Cinnamon Tree" whose bark yields the spice; very attractive leathery lvs with three pale prominent veins; pale yellow inconspicuous fls. From Ceylon. We are not offering this now. We are putting this listing on our website so our customers can see that it might be offered at some time in the future. It is not available at this time. Used to stop bleeding, to lower fever. We get so many requests for this, we decided to list the plant as not being available. It might be in the future. Email Us if You Like This Plant

TROPICAL GRAPE VINES for the 2012 SEASON

These remarkable and enduringly popular vines run the gamut from delicately designed foliage sensitive to inadequate levels of humidity to true desert creatures damaged only by too much humidity--both types are offered in the following selections. Also note the close cousins offered later in this tropical section as Tetrastigmas and Rhiocissus; on occasion we offer seedlings of the caudiform Cyphostemmas in our succulent speciality listings; and currently you will find the winter hardy Parthenocissus and Vitus (the basic "Grape") in, of all places, the hardy plant section of this website.

41078 CISSUS SICYOIDES ALBO-NITENS VIT HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.50 Growth habit of the typical "Curtain Ivy," with the more waxy wide leaves producing a lustrous silver nacre patina on their surface. A visual treat. Many cascading aerial roots can form a "curtan" effect.

41059 CISSUS ANTARCTICA VIT HP CGH PRICE: $4.75 "Kangaroo Vine" Leathery toothed leaves on strong wiry stems; rugged Australian surviving difficult cultural conditions--thus a basic houseplant whether in a hanging basket or windowsill pot. Has to be in the top ten of the "I will survive" houseplants!

14106 CISSUS DISCOLOR VIT TGH PRICE: $ 7.75 "Rex Begonia Vine" Cambodian species with velvety quilted green-violet leaves with elevated silver areas highlighted by rouged veins--and complemented by a glowing maroon underleaf. Even in greenhouse, this will definitely rest during winter, shedding its leaves and extended vine stems, but maintaining the thick nearly tuberous central base and soft trunk during which period you need to keep it barely moist. Do not let it completely dry out during this period or you will observe the terminal dormancy of this fantastically beautiful species.

41357 CISSUS HAMADEROHENSIS VIT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 "Tapeworm Grape" Thick slate green flattened woody tapeworm stems of long-spaced joints climb with tendrils; leaves deciduous. For kids, this is a totally neat plant. Sent as mossed URCuts if have none potted when you order as it seems to travel fine as a mossed cut.

41062 CISSUS QUADRANGULA [QUADRANGULARIS] VIT PRICE: $7.25 Weird four-sided winged succulent sectioned stems; small leaves soon decidious; green flowers. Favorite of succulent collectors; although very slow growing--extremely sensitive to chill and seldom tolerant of high humidity.

41064 CISSUS QUINANGULARIS VIT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.75 Attractive succulent with five-winged stems; dark decidious leaves are thick succulent wedges jutting out from the nodes. Most interesting in any rare vine collection; of easy culture as long as is situated in adequate light--seems unconcerned as to humidity levels as long as the roots are in a perfectly drained mix. As easy to grow as Cissus quadrangularis is difficult, now quite popular with designers of open wire topiary frames.

41067 CISSUS RHOMBIFOLIA FIONIA VIT HP CGH PRICE: $ 6.00 "Oak Leaf Grape Ivy" Uniquely thick-substanced foliage with beautifully lobed, somewhat waxy, leaflets slightly furred beneath if grown in high light. Very slow-growing selection.

< 41071 CISSUS ROTUNDIFOLIA VIT HP TGH PRICE: $ 4.25 "Succulent Grape" or "Wax Cissus" Waxy serrated lily-pad leaves and occasional red (grape) berries on corky stems which also develop thick pudgy aerial roots in moist atmospheres. Easy very handsome vine as long as not subjected to extended chill.

41072 CISSUS SICYOIDES VIT TGH HP PRICE: $ 2.50 "Curtain Ivy" or "Princess Vine" Brazilian rainforest vine will form a dramatic curtain of aerial 12' long roots if maintained in high humidity--the former sensation at Longwood Gardens and the mainstay of the "tropical look" at the Opryland Hotel (which maintains the largest area under glass east of the Mississippi). Many of our hobby greenhouse friends let this rapid grower with its waxed gloss foliage and busyt tendrils clamber under or over the roof of their greenhouse during the summer--finding it easier to cut down a few vines in the fall to reintroduce full light than either struggling to remove a scrim or to wash off a lime wash, neither of which can be quickly recycled into the compost pile.

66862 CITROFORTUNELLA MITIS RUT CGH PRICE: $ 10.00 Excellent miniature "Calamondin Orange" popular as a decorative Christmas gift; without doubt, the easist citris to set fruit in your hobby greenhouse--especially popular because the extremely colorful fruit is at its showiest during the Christmas season when you most need it. Many plant growers have good luck with this in the house on a pebble tray in a sunny spot. Cannot ship to Florida, Texas, Arizona & Western states.

40125 CITRUS AURANTIUM MYRTIFOLIUS CHINOTTO RUT CGH HP PRICE: $ 15.00 OFTEN IN LIMITED SUPPLY "Myrtle Leaf Orange" Somewhat fastigate woody stems, developing character bark so treasured by trainers of this "Bonsai Lime," heavily cloaked with many 1" leathery awl shaped fragrant leaves. White fragrant flowers followed by redish toned 'Bitter Orange' or "Seville Orange" pulpy fruit sometimes used in candies; although this charming "Seville Orange" shrub is actually a native to Viet Nam. We are often sold very low of this popular form due to the demand from tropical bonsai fanciers, so please inquire before ordering if you have a schedule deadline. As with all Citrus, cannot be shipped to any Western states or Florida.

41362 CITRUS LIMON SUNGOLD RUT CGH PRICE: $ 18.00 "Variegated Lemon" Beautifully gold-streaked foliage; leaves much smaller than variegated 'Ponderosa Lemon" and splashings are yellow-gold & green, not creamy white; fragrant flowers, if polinated, produce dramatically striped fruit. Popular for it produces fruit as a small container subject given good light and fertilizer with some willing insect or human pollinators. We cannot ship to Florida and most Western states because of agricultural restrictions.

41363 CITRUS MEDICA SARCODACTYLIS RUT CGH HP PRICE: $ 15.00 LIMITED SUPPLY "Buddha's Hand/Fingers" Strong woody stems carry the amazing odd very large elongated fruit of this Ceylon & Indian species--at the end of the citron fruit extend thick "fingers" of green rind, rind which appears as the citron cubes in fruitcake. This giant cannot be shipped to most Western or Southwestern States nor to Florida. As with all citrus, no foreign shipping is possible.

41360 CLERODENDRON FRAGRANS PLENIFLORUM VER CGH HH PRICE: $ 15.00 More correctly Clerodendron philippinum (since a native to India?)--the deservedly famous "Chinese Glory-Bower." Woody erect stems with dramatic pairs of heavy wide leaves terminate in lovely bouquets of double white hydrangea-like white blossoms fading to shell pink for a truely Victorian look. In North best grown as conservatory subject; winter dormant if kept cool; nonetheless, ours in the warm conservatory grow & bloom all winter--and the foliage is dramatically soft, the impressive clusters of flowers . . . simply breathtakingly beautiful, earning itself a place in any larger hobby greenhouse and in every conservatory.

41244 CLERODENDRON INDICUM VER CGH HH PRICE: $ 12.00 "Turk's Turban" or "Tubeflower" Erect woody hollow stems are ringed with whorls of wide leaves and white tubular flowers on long (even up to two feet) terminal spikes followed by blue fruit. An odd one--often the hollow stems reach 12 feet before setting their teriminal flower spikes. Every so often we consider not offering this as the height is daunting; and then it blooms and all is forgiven.

54450 CLERODENDRON QUADRILOCULARE VER CGH HH PRICE: $ 12.00 "Black Stemmed Tubeflower" Large clusters of 8" long tubular bright pink blossoms in a starburst pattern tops a beautiful shrubby vine. Beautiful dusky foliage, blushed violet underleaf. Excellent conservatory subject.

58301 CLERODENDRON QUADRILOCULARE BRANDONII [TRICOLOR] VER CGH HH PRICE: $ 55.00 Fabulous new for the 2012 SEASON " Variegated Black Stemmed Tubeflower" Large clusters of 8" long tubular bright pink fls on shrubby vine. Beautiful dusky foliage richly margined ivory with blushed violet underleaf. Excellent conservatory subject and quite popular as a summer urn subject.

69021 CLERODENDRON THOMSONIAE VER TGH HP PRICE: $ 4.25 The dark leaves paired on this attrative vine decorated with terminal clusters of inflorescence of odd "Bag Flower" white calyxes from which emerge brilliant red "Bleeding Heart" corollas. A traditional favorite from the very warm Cameroon, thus will lose foliage if kept cool during the winter; but can bloom throughout the seasons if kept evenly warm, well fertilized, and given adequate access to sunlight.

40132 CLERODENDRON THOMSONIAE VARIEGATUM VER TGH PRICE: $ 15.00 "Variegated Glory-bower" Cream margined leaves on vine with terminal clusters of white-calyxed blossoms with brilliant red "Bleeding Heart" corollas. Called "Bag Flower" in Africa. A great favorite of hobby greenhousers for a century; a new favorite of designers of summer urns and container gardens. We are often sold quite low on this margined clone--please allow us some time to prepare propatations.

41245 CLERODENDRON TRICHOTOMUM MARGINATUM VER CGH HH PRICE: $ 12.00 "Japanese Glorybower" Wide spread large woody shrub with decorative leaves widely margined in yellow-ochre; sprays of starry white fragrant flowers in reddish calyces; followed by blue berries. This is an imperative for all collectors of variegates, even though it demands considerable and constant warmth to flourish. Not zone 5 hardy as its non-variegated regular form; nonetheless a dependablely good container plant. In subtropical gardens, root hardy--and remarkably, in our test gardens outside, it seems usually root hardy even in Zone 6 with adequate winter protection (although it emerges so late in the season that no blooms are produced).. We try to keep this in propagation, but as it does take up considerable space, production can be irregular some years.

40133 CLERODENDRON UGANDENSE VER CGH HP PRICE: $ 8.00 "Blue Butterfly Flower" Upside-down blossoms of bright blue with indigo stamens (filaments purple, anthers blue!) suspended like chains of butterfies from the slim straight stems used as arrow shafts; beware the strongly scented (and we mean seriously scented) foliage. Perhaps more odd than beautiful.

51017 CLIVIA MINIATA GRANDIFLORA AMARY HP CGH PRICE: $ 8.50 "Belgian Hybrid Clivia" The usual commercial selection with large umbels of orange-red tubular blossoms, throated yellow, over very attractive deep evergreen leathery strap leaves. Unparalleled as a winter flowering houseplant, flowering in bright light; but hardly demanding direct sunlight or even good humidity to perform splendidly.

51020 CLIVIA MINIATA VARIEGATA AMARYL CGH HP PRICE: $ 110.00 We have a nice number of good striped variegated Clivia available this year in 2012. Please note that these are not fully grown yet, but they have nice roots and are about 2 to 3 years old. Thanks for looking. give us a call if you have a variegation pattern you prefer. Each seedling is of course different. If you wish you can request to see a couple photos of the best plants at this point. We also have some that run in the $200.00 price range with extreme variegation. By late 2012 we may have sufficient variegates with yellow flowered parentage to offer a few to collectors. Inquire

66945 CLIVIA MINIATA YELLOW SEEDLINGS PRICE: $ 50.0 0 It is best to place your order with a note asking when shipment can be made. These are very popular. We we respond whether these can be shipped immediately or not, before we finalize the order. These are three years old at least--the winter heads of pale yellow blossom clusters are breathtaking..

40137 CLUSEA GUTTIFERA GUT HP TGH PRICE: $ 7.50 Excellent dwarf cousin of the "Autograph Tree": freely-branched candelabra stems studded w/ apple green 4" long triangular leaves with waxy gloss. Handsome as bonsai; excellent houseplant tolerating low humidity.

40136 CLUSEA LANCEOLATA [HORT] GUT HP TGH PRICE: $ 22.00 Thick propellar-shaped leaves; forms stilt roots with maturity. Similar to C. fluminensis but with angular stems set with the succulent foliage; easy to grow if given strong light and bottom moisture, distinctive small statured relative of the more famous (and much larger statured) "Autograph Plant."

41250 CLUSEA ROSEA (COMPACT FORM) GUT HP TGH PRICE: $ 14.00 "Autograph Tree" This is the compact form possibly not a rosea cultivar at all, better suited to indoor cultivation. Pairs of thick succulent leathery leaves stud the heavy trunks; in moist conditions stilt roots develop; heads of odd succulent pink blossoms.

40134 CLUSEA ROSEA AUREO-VARIEGATA GUT HP TGH PRICE: $ 55.00 "Variegated Autograph Plant" Large irregular yellow & cream streaked thick leather leaves; Stout shrub; pink flowers with maturity. One of the most stunningly beautiful of all variegated plants; and remarkablely easy to grow. Not always enough to fill all orders some years, so please inquire about availability before ordering.

58326 CLUSEA ROSEA NANA VARIEGATA GUT HP TGH PRICE: $ 15.00 Compact "Autograph Plant" with thick cardboard leaves narrower than rosea with often whiter and more brilliant streaked centers or variegated sections. This is most likely another species, but growers have not ascertained that yet.

42247 COCCOLUBA UVIFERA POLYGO HP CGH PRICE: $ 14.75 Handsome "Sea Grape" native to American sea shores, making an excellent indoor pot or conservatory tub plant. Leathery wide wavy-margined leaves develop red veins in sun; white flowers followed by long strands of purple "Pigeon Plum" berries. Needs full sun to flourish. This is available from time to time. Inquire.

51918 COCHLIOSTEMA JACOBIANUM [ODORATISSIMUM] COMM TGH PRICE: $ 45.00 WE ARE NOW SOLD OUT OF THIS ITEM UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. PLEASE DO NOT ORDER UNTIL WE NOTE THAT NEW STOCK IS AVAILABLE. We are leaving this on the website for your edification only. It is a beautiful plants. Remarkable Ecuadorian spiderwort mimics a giant fleshy Bromeliad with long succulent sheathing leaves (like a short Crinum) blushed purplish violet beneath. With maturity, produces showy heads of dark blue violet flowers with a dramatic white claw and red tipped sepals. Demands warm conservatory conditions.

The Croton Family, Codiaeum

42130 CODIAEUM VARIEGATUM DREADLOCKS PAL HP CGH PRICE: $ 10.00 Long corkscrewed wavy leaved "Dreadlocks Croton" which produces upright woody stems from which cascade some 18" long leaves emerging bright yellow, then becoming rich red before darkening to a deep maroon. Merely fabulous.

40141 CODIAEUM SUPERBA [PELE'S FIRE] EUP HP TGH PRICE: $ 5.75 Tiny twisted ribbon leaves sprikling gold, maroon, emerald. Thick foliage points upward to resemble a mini bonfire, thus the "Cumbustion Croton" a tongue-in-cheek name for this Moluccan native. Wonderful minature for bright light.

67531 CODIAEUM VARIEGATUM ELEANOR ROOSEVELT EUP HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.50 Heirloom hybrid with dramatically long emerald green strap leaves with overlapping dot-dappling as thick as measles. Very rare "Croton" preserved from the thirties. New for Glasshouse Works in 2012.

67527 CODIAEUM VARIEGATUM ZANZIBARENSIS EUP HP TGH PRICE: $ 8.50 Heirloom "Zanaibar" hybrid with long spotted green and gold strap leaves Very rare dwarf "Croton" like the above offering preserved from the thirties. New for Glasshouse Works in 2012.

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