Shipped in a 6.5cm pot

Also known as Spurge, Miniature Saguaro

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Euphorbia aeruginosa is a very decorative spiny, succulent, forming dwarf, shrubs 15-30 cm in height (up to 40 cm recorded north of Punda Milia) and a subterranean caudex.

Branches bluish-grey or brownish-green with many brownish spines.

Branching occurs at or below ground level and above too.

Its name, which means 'verdigris', refers to the coppery-green branches which have contrasting reddish-brown spines.

Flowers are small bright yellow 3 mm in diameter; nectar-glands oblong -

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Rare succulent

Shipped in 6.5 cm pot

Easy to care for

Good size succulent

Similar in size and shape to the one in the photos -

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Size 8 inches not including the roots

They go a redish colour when exposed to strong sunlight

Shipped bare rooted

They are all similar size and shape to the one in the photos

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Just cut off part of a leaf and use the sap

Aloe Vera gel is widely known to relieve sunburn and help heal wounds.

You can use Aloe Vera to keep your skin clear and hydrated.

This may be because the plant thrives in dry, unstable climates

To survive the harsh conditions, the plant�s leaves store water.

These water-dense leaves, combined with special plant compounds called complex carbohydrates, make it an effective face moisturizer and pain reliever. - In Stock

Known as Sausage Spurge and Medusa Head

Similar in size and shape to the ones in the photos

Shipped in a pot and mailed in a small rigid box

Monadenium guentheri is a stout perennial succulent herb with long, cylindrical stems that carry prominent spine-tipped patterned tubercles and fleshy sickle-shaped deciduous leaves.

Commonly called �Sausage Spurge�, the mature plant resembles a tangle of snakes, and makes a great �Medusa Head� when grown as a houseplant in the right container.

A native of south east Kenya, Monadenium guentheri is usually found growing in open grass scrub.

It is fairly fast growing and a good choice for beginning a Monadenium collection.

Propagation is easiest from cuttings.

Allow them to callus over and then pot up in porous soil.

Seeds resulting from cross-pollinated plants can also be collected and sown. -

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Rare Unusual houseplant

Shipped in an 6.5cm pot

Similar in size and shape to the ones in the photos

They all have new growth and plenty of leaves and are at least 5 inches high excluding the pot

Alluaudias need full sun or high interior lighting with a very well drained soil mix and freely circulating air.

The best way to water these succulents is to completely soak the soil and then let it dry out completely before you water again.

If fertilizer is used, it should be diluted to 1/4 the recommended rate on the label.

These plants must be protected in the greenhouse over the winter.

Established Alluaudias should tolerate temperatures around 32 �F (0 �C).

During the winter months, the plants will drop all of their leaves and no water should be given during this period - In Stock

Origin and Habitat: Aloe aculeataSN|594]]SN|594]] can be found in several areas in south Africa (Northern Province, Mpumalanga) and it extends into Zimbabwe.

Habitat: It is found in rocky areas in grassland and open bushveld.

Description: Aloe aculeataSN|722]]SN|594]] is a (usually) solitary stemless rosette which grows up to approximately 60(-100) cm high, 30(-100) in diameter if not contained by pot. The name 'aculeata' means prickly and refers to the presence of the many tuberculate spines on the leaf surfaces.

Rosette: Each rosette is composed by flattish fat leaves that arch upward like a bowl, though as plants age, plants tend to fall over a bit and lose this semicircular sillohuette.

Leaves: Long and quite broad at the base , 120mm wide, from dull green to turquoise with reddish-brown triangular teeth (or thorns) on the margins and undersides. These warty spines have a different white base colour which give the plant a mottled appearance. The spines is variable, and many older plant populations have no more spines.

Flowers: Some specimens are uniform in colour while others bicoloured, Colors are variable from red to orange to red and yellow, all the way to greenish yellow. Flowers are tubular in shape, 40mm in length, and flattened downward helping distinguish this aloes from most other non-suckering, stemless South African Aloes.

In young plants the infloresence is single up 1 m tall, as the plant matures the inflorescence may split into three or four branches. Each raceme is long and narrow and gradually tapers to the tip.

Blooming season: Mid winter (in northern hemisphere) .

Remarks: Aloe pegleraeSN|594]]SN|722]] can be mistaken for Aloe aculeataSN|722]]SN|594]] when not in flower, but the presence of thorns on both leaf surface is a characteristic unique to Aloe pegleraeSN|594]]SN|722]].

Common Names include: Red Hot Poker Aloe - In Stock

Similar in size and shape to the ones in the photos

Description:
Euphorbia pseudocactus is a multi-branched, dwarf-stemmed succulent shrub that, as its name suggests, resembles a cactus.

The stems often have distinctive yellow V-shaped markings.

Plants eventually form large mounded clumps brancing from the base and above, 60-120 cm tall and up to 2 m in diameter.

Stem:
Acutely-angled, irregular, constricted in broad, twisted, obovate to triangular segments about 5-15 cm long, which usually represents a year of growth.

These segments are green of varying shades, conspicuously and ornamentally decorated with horizontal or "U" shaped grey-yellow or greenish-yellow markings.

The difference in colour and markings has lead to the introduction of invalid names based purely on colour. On cross section the segments have very thin walls and irregular diameter varying from 2,5 to 7 cm.

Ribs:
3 to 5 (but usually 4) angular with wavy edges and sinuate teeth up to 1.5 cm apart.

Stipular
Spines: Stout 5-12 mm long joined in a horny margin. This margin is usually a white/grey, as are the spines. These often have a dark brown or black tip.

Leaves
Leaves only appear briefly, less then 3 mm at the very tips of the growing canters only, briefly in summer.

Inflorescences
(cymes):1-3 in an horizontal line from the "flowering eyes", mid-way between each set of spines, simple. Peduncles 2 mm.

Flowers (cyathia)
Up to 7 mm across. Nectar glands oblong, yellow and touching.

Fruits (capsules):
Subsessile acutely lobed, to 14 mm across.

Seeds:Subglobose
3 mm in diameter smooth.

Bloom Season:
Late winter through Late Summer - In Stock

Shipped in a 6.5 cm pot

Similar in size and shape to the ones in the photos but taller

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The plant you receive will be similar in size and shape to the ones in the photos

Pachypodium lamerei is a semi deciduous, succulent stemmed tree, up to 20 feet (6 m) tall and up to 1 foot (30 cm) in diameter. Silver-gray trunk covered with sharp up to 2.4 inches (6 cm) long spines, which is generally solitary or scarcely branched. Leaves are green, long, narrow, arranged spirally, mostly just at the top of the plant.

Flowers are white with yellow center, up to 3.1 inches (8 cm) in diameter.

Seed pods look like cucumbers. - In Stock

Trunk approx. 3-4 inches in height

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The plant you receive will be similar in size and shape to the ones in the photos

Description:
Pachypodium lealii subs. saundersii (best known as Pachypodium saundersii) is a fat pot-bellied stem-succulent.

It is one of commoner Pachypodiums in cultivation.

It produces terminal clusters of large white flowers tinged with purple, they are long-tubed and adapted to pollination by moths.

Stem:
Shrubby, 1-2 metres high and wide (wild), up to approx 1 x 1 m (garden), with a ball-shaped bole (tuber), up to 1 m in diameter, often irregularly shaped, rising little above the ground, little-branched.

Branches erect, simple or sparingly re-branched above, densely spinous, thick at the base and tapering rapidly to 5-10 mm in diameter, glabrous, with a thin, papery greyish bark, deeply longitudinally wrinkled on drying.

Short shoots (branchlets), with crowded slender spines up to 1 cm long, present in axils of main stem leaves.

Leaves:
Subsessile (Petiole 0�3 mm long), spirally arranged on young branches or tufted near ends of axillary branchlets (abbreviated axillary shoots), oblanceolate, obovate to obovate-elliptic, apex obtuse and mucronate or acute, constricted towards the base, with spinulous margins, 25�80 mm long, 10�25 mm broad, thin-textured, drying blackish, often ephemeral. Hairless except for fine down on the midrib.

The latter raised, other nerves usually obscure. Leaf sometimes strongly undulate.

Stipular spines:
Spines on long shoots in spreading pairs, up to 2-3.7 cm long, stout, glabrous, straight, angled slightly upwards, with confluent swollen bases arising from a small cushion; a third, much smaller, spine also usually present proximal to the petiole. Spines on the short axillary shoots shorter.

Inflorescences (cymes):
Terminal, sessile or subsessile , several-flowered, very condensed. Pedicels hardly any or up to 2-4 mm long. Axes glabrous.

Bracts small, lanceolate, early deciduous.

Flowers:
Large showy, white, tinged with pink to purple on outside of corolla, greenish within. Calyx 3-4 mm long, glabrous. Sepals ovate, acutely acuminate. Corolla white, tinged with pink.

Tube 30-42 mm long, narrow in the lowest third below the stamens (for 10-12 mm), widened above them, then attenuate towards the mouth, externally glabrous, hairy within. Corolla lobes obliquely obovoid to almost triangular, asymmetrical, 1/2-2/3 as long as tube, much narrowed at the base, almost 2.5 cm long and wide, both surfaces glabrous.

Stamens 5; anthers sessile, inserted at base of swollen part of corolla tube, 9-11 mm long, united in a cone, subsessile. Disc cupular, deeply 5-lobed. Ovary of 2 free carpels.

Style 1, slender filiform, glabrous, attached to the two carpels at their apices. Style 2-lobed, stigma cylindrical with a basal rim.

Blooming season:
It flowers in autumn at the end of the summer growing season.

It generally blooms at a younger age than other Pachypodiums, typically around 4-5 years old.

Fruits:
The fruit is a twin horn-like cylindrical follicle (two separate mericarps), spreading at a right angle when mature, spindle-shaped, attenuate at the apex, compressed, glabrous, pale to dark-brown with longitudinal lines or lenticellate outside, 8-10(-15) cm long, 1 cm in diameter, dehiscent.

Seeds:
Numerous 6-7(-9) mm long, ovate in outline, compressed, with a apical coma (tuft of whitish or pale golden silky hairs) at one end, up to 2-2.5 cm long -

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Commonly known as Rainbow Elephant bush

Similar in size and shape to the ones in the photos

Shipped in a rigid box after being well packed

Description
It is a soft-wooded, semi-evergreen upright shrub or small tree, usually 2.5�4.5 metres (8�15 ft) tall. Similar in appearance to the unrelated "jade plant" Crassula ovata (family Crassulaceae), P. afra has smaller and rounder pads and more compact growth (shorter internodal spaces, down to 1.5 mm). It is much hardier, faster growing, more loosely branched, and has more limber tapering branches than Crassula once established.

Within the genus Portulacaria, it has been shown to be an outlier, relatively unrelated to the other species in the genus, which are all restricted to small ranges in the arid far west of southern Africa.

Distribution and habitat
It is very widespread in the east of South Africa (including Swaziland). In this moist climate, it is relatively rare, and tends to favour dryer rocky outcrops and slopes.

It is also found in much denser numbers in the dryer southern Cape. Here it occurs from the "Little Karoo" of the Western Cape, eastwards up until the thicket vegetation of the Eastern Cape. Spekboom is found most prolifically in the Albany thickets, a woodland ecoregion, which locally is often called noorsveld, after the high number of succulent Euphorbia species, which are often called noors plants.

Cultivation and uses
Prostrata" decumbent variety

In the wilds of South Africa, large plants do survive the winter frosts by growing dense enough to provide their own natural cover. Drought-tolerant and fire-resistant, it will endure desert sun and heat once established, which the jade plant will not.

�Cuttings root very easily in most potting media - In Stock

Hoodia Macrantha Bushman's hat

Shipped in a 6.5cm pot

Do not overwater, water when dry and very little in winter

They all have new growth, the lights green part at the top and are approx 3 inches high

Kalahari cactus

Family: Apocynaceae

Hoodia Macrantha , also known as Bushman's hat, is a leafless spiny succulent plant supposed to have therapeutic properties in folk medicine.

It grows naturally in Botswana, South Africa and Namibia.

The species became internationally known and threatened by collectors, after a marketing campaign falsely claimed that it was an appetite suppressant for weight loss.

The flowers smell like rotten meat and are pollinated mainly by flies.

The indigenous San people of the Namib desert call this plant hoba � the initial sound is a lateral click) � and the Afrikaans name ghaap is used to refer to all species of Hoodia. -

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known as Elephant's Toothpick, African Spear, Cylindrical Snake Plant, Bow String Hemp, Snake Plant, Spear Sansevieria

Sent in a rigid box after being well packed

Similar in size and shape to the ones in the photo

Description

Sansevieria cylindrica has striped, elongate, smooth, greenish-gray subcylindrical leaves.

They are up to 3 cm (1 in) diameter and grow up to 2 m (7 ft) above soil.

The Spear Sansevieria grows fan-shaped, with its stiff leaves growing from a basal rosette.

The species is interesting in having subcylindical instead of strap-shaped leaves caused by a failure to express genes which would cause the cylindrical bud to differentiate dorsoventrally or produce a distinctive and familiar top and bottom surface to the leaf blade.

The 3 cm (1 in) greenish-white tubular flowers are tinged with pink.

Cultivation

The species is drought-tolerant and in captivity requires water only about once every other week during the growing season.

The species was described by Wenceslas Bojer in 1837.

Sansevieria cylindrica received its name from a competition in a Dutch national newspaper.

It is popular as an ornamental plant as it is easy to culture and take care of in a home if given bright sunlight and other required resources - In Stock

Hoodia Gordonii Bushman's hat

Shipped in a 6.5cm pot

Do not overwater, water when dry and very little in winter

They all have new growth, the lights green part at the top and are approx 3 inches high

Kalahari cactus

Family: Apocynaceae

Hoodia gordonii, also known as Bushman's hat, is a leafless spiny succulent plant supposed to have therapeutic properties in folk medicine.

It grows naturally in Botswana, South Africa and Namibia.

The species became internationally known and threatened by collectors, after a marketing campaign falsely claimed that it was an appetite suppressant for weight loss.

The flowers smell like rotten meat and are pollinated mainly by flies.

The indigenous San people of the Namib desert call this plant hoba � the initial sound is a lateral click) � and the Afrikaans name ghaap is used to refer to all species of Hoodia. -

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Rare Unusual houseplant

Shipped in a 4 inch pot approx 6 inches high

Shipping in a rigid box

Common names Coral Cactus

Similar in size and shape to the ones in the photos -

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Similar in size and shape to the ones in the photo

Blooms early spring

Xerosicyos danguyi, commonly called the 'penny plant', is a really unusual climbing succulent with slender stems branching from the base.

It bears peculiar silver-green to blue-green leaves that are almost a perfect round shape.

The greenish-yellow flowers are known to be inconspicuous, but cute and neat. - In Stock

Shipped in a 6.5cm pot

The photo shows how it flowers photo by Magnus Bjrlin

Do not overwater, water when dry and very little in winter

Description:
Hoodia bainii has been known for quite a long time and was described in 1878.

It is a local or morphological form of the variable Hoodia gordonii.

It is an erect bushily branched, leafless, and spiny succulent plant similar to a cactus distinguished by the stems covered with tubercles, ending in long, woody spines.

In the early stages only one stem is produced but at a later stage the plant produces clusters of upright stem from the base.

Mature plants can have as many as 50 individual branches.

Plants under ideal conditions can attain a height of 40 (or more) cm and can under ideal conditions live for 25 years in cultivation.

In the wild they probably don't live much longer than 15 years.

The flowers are saucer-shaped, slightly five lobed, dull yellow or buff coloured, fading to reddish or purple, often smaller than in H. gordonii and evil smelling.

Blooming season:
Flowers are normally borne in August or September.

Hoodia takes duration of 5 years to be completely mature, till its flowers appear.

Fruits (follicles):
Terete-fusiform, resembling small antelope or goat horns, 10-13 (or more) cm long, 10-12 mm thick, tapering to a beak, glabrous, smooth.

Seeds:
The seeds are light brown in colour, smooth, 6-7 mm long, 3 mm broad, ovate, flat, with a slightly thickened margin, and have a pappus of fluffy hair attached to their one end.

This pappus acts as a parachute when the seed pod splits open.

The seeds are blown some distance from the parent plant where they will establish themselves. -

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Rare Unusual houseplant

Shipped in an 8.5cm pot

Similar in size and shape to the ones in the photos

They all have new growth and plenty of leaves and are at least 5 inches high excluding the pot

Alluaudias need full sun or high interior lighting with a very well drained soil mix and freely circulating air.

The best way to water these succulents is to completely soak the soil and then let it dry out completely before you water again.

If fertilizer is used, it should be diluted to 1/4 the recommended rate on the label.

These plants must be protected in the greenhouse over the winter.

Established Alluaudias should tolerate temperatures around 32 �F (0 �C).

During the winter months, the plants will drop all of their leaves and no water should be given during this period - In Stock

Unusual rare plant Canary Candelabra Spurge

Large plant approx 25cm tall

The photos show how these look

Shipped in a rigid box after being well packed

The plant is shipped in its pot to prevent any damage to the roots.

Description:
Also called "Canary Candelabra Spurge", in Russian it is known as "Молочай канарский" (Canary Spurge).

It is a beautiful fast-growing succulent plant, it can reach up to 3 meters in height and easily branches out, creating numerous branches at the base.

Its columnar stem is robust, fleshy, with a color, ranging from light green to reddish brown.

The spines, arranged in pairs, are short and take on the color from gray to brown. Easy to grow, thus suitable even for beginners. -

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Cool Succulent Plant shipped in a 5.5cm pot

Shipped in a rigid box after being well packed

Similar in size and shape to the ones in the photos

Needs very little care and very little water

Euphorbia Decaryi can be quite beautiful when it is well-taken care of.

This succulent type needs typical watering as the other succulents.

The watering method is very important to keep your plant healthy.

It should not sit on the water, and an excess amount of water should be avoided.

The best way of watering is soak and dry method this succulent.

Yet, the succulent should be controlled to avoid overwatering.

Euphorbia is a very large and diverse genus of flowering plants, commonly called spurge, in the spurge family (Euphorbiaceae).

"Euphorbia" is sometimes used in ordinary English to collectively refer to all members of Euphorbiaceae (in deference to the type genus), not just to members of the genus.

Some euphorbias are commercially widely available, such as poinsettias at Christmas.

Some are commonly cultivated as ornamentals, or collected and highly valued for the aesthetic appearance of their unique floral structures, such as the crown of thorns plant (Euphorbia milii).

Euphorbias from the deserts of Southern Africa and Madagascar have evolved physical characteristics and forms similar to cacti of North and South America, so they (along with various other kinds of plants) are often incorrectly referred to as "cacti".

Some are used as ornamentals in landscaping, because of beautiful or striking overall forms, and drought and heat tolerance. - In Stock