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In terms of known species, this plant probably most closely matches A. mammillaris but it could be from any number of parents and the flowers don't clearly place it in any of the clearly defined sections.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rare Plant Catalog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50635099996440,"sku":null,"price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/1175\/9896\/files\/Adromischus__hummel_s_white_6a301610-a5b5-4ea6-87b8-67314c87835e.png?v=1759986645"},{"product_id":"adromischus-little-sphaeroid","title":"Adromischus \"little sphaeroid\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDespite its colorful name, “little sphaeroid” is not a cultivar but a natural form of Adromischus marianiae, found in the wild in distinct populations that closely match the plants seen in cultivation. Pillbeam’s Adromischus book places it in the marianiae group, describing it as a miniature form that “recently appeared in cultivation” when the book was published in 1998. He notes that its geography and form are closest to the marianiae form “kubusensis,” and that the name reflects the size and shape of the leaves. We also suspect it may nod to our friend and Adromischus authority Steven Hammer’s Sphaeroid Institute. Native to a very arid area near Springbok, it is known from a single ridge. Like all Adromischus, it propagates with remarkable ease from a single leaf.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rare Plant Catalog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50635100029208,"sku":null,"price":8.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/1175\/9896\/files\/adromischuslittlesphaeroid_0d55f730-9c0b-43d6-b06e-66e8efe2af3c.png?v=1759969482"},{"product_id":"adromischus-triflorus-calico-hearts","title":"Adromischus triflorus \"Calico Hearts\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs the story goes, this plant is simply Adromischus triflorus, though Johnson’s Cactus Garden, a nursery active in the 1930s and 40s, had a habit of inventing playful names to help sell plants. One of those was this very clone, first offered as maculatus “calico hearts.” Whatever its true identity, it remains both a fine heart shaped leaf form of the species and a small piece of horticultural history, kept alive as a single plant for over a century. Despite the long presence of this genus in cultivation, “Adros,” as acolytes call them, have slipped back into relative obscurity, absent from big-box store productions and rarely offered by specialist nurseries. In bright light, this triflorus colors with especially vivid red spotting. Tolkien recorded it as the most common Adromischus in the Little Karoo. The precise locality of this clone has likely been lost to time and may no longer exist in the wild.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rare Plant Catalog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50635100094744,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/1175\/9896\/files\/Adromischus_triflorus__Calico_Hearts_0c9f884b-9645-4576-b11b-30176c8ee018.png?v=1759969509"},{"product_id":"anacampseros-baeseckei","title":"Anacampseros baeseckei","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the oppressively arid Richtersveld, Anacampseros baeseckei forms a tight cushion of rounded leaves, often purple-flushed and adorned with a small tuft of white wool at the tip of each head. These hairs shed lightly over the older leaves as they descend, giving the plant a cobwebbed appearance. Beneath the beaded foliage, the stems remain completely hidden, branching over time to form a dense mound that sits low against the soil and gradually divides into a small colony of individual heads. In summer it sends up thin bloom spikes with proportionally large magenta flowers, reminiscent of some cacti, to which this genus is more closely related than to any other group of plants. The flowers open briefly in the afternoon and evening, as is typical of Anacampseros (and Avonia). 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The clone we grow comes with location data placing it, somewhat ironically, outside its namesake Namaqualand, in the Cedarberg mountains along the well-known Pakhuis Pass. This stretch of road cuts through an trasitionary zone between two distinct ecosystems, with sandstone blending into the quartzite fields of the Doringrivier valley. 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In the wild, the stems sprawl across the ground and blend into the pale grit, a common trait in Avonia which has led to the theory that they evolved looking like bird droppings to avoid being eaten by grazing animals. In cultivation, it is a slow plant with the tuber swelling a little each year but never enough to be grown as a true caudiciform. The stems produce small white flowers at the tips in Summer. These are seed grown plants.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rare Plant Catalog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50635101045016,"sku":null,"price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/1175\/9896\/files\/Avonia_albissima_56c61ce3-aed9-4c27-a3b7-7704d6344de1.png?v=1759986730"},{"product_id":"begonia-dregei","title":"Begonia dregei","description":"\u003cp\u003eBegonia dregei is one of the few true caudiciform representatives of this genus. 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In nature this species grows in thin pockets of soil at high elevations on steep slopes, where the temperate but intense summer monsoons are offset by bright, frosty winters. White, star-shaped flowers appear over the rosettes in late spring, but it's the dark foliage and improbable origin that make this species worth keeping.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rare Plant Catalog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50635114479896,"sku":null,"price":6.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/1175\/9896\/files\/sinocrassula_a119a621-7839-4475-ba0d-3b31a4881fbd.png?v=1760469867"},{"product_id":"drosera-capensis","title":"Drosera capensis","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmong carnivorous plants, Drosera capensis comes about as close as it gets to the full package. It manages to be showy and elegant while at the same time forgiving enough to survive just about anything. 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The plants we grow come from nearby Tolimán Canyon, where whole cliff faces are carpeted with hundreds of thousands clinging to wet moss on near-vertical rock. Like other Pinguicula, the leaves are coated in sticky mucilage that makes them look perpetually wet and fools insects looking for water, only to be digested down to their exoskeleton. 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In habitat it grows on limestone cliffs in Oaxaca, where the plants anchor themselves in thin mossy crevices that stay damp through much of the year. The cultivar ‘Tangerine’ shifts the usual scarlet tone toward orange, sometimes almost persimmon when freshly opened, fading and darkening as the flowers age. The rosettes are the same soft green, fleshy leaves typical of the species, forming neat clumps that contrast nicely with the bright blooms. 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Its limited range and unusual habitat suggest a strong preference for precise conditions, thriving only with strong light, cool nights, and very high humidity. For growers willing to meet those demands, it rewards with a display few plants can rival. The plants offered here are well established and already accustomed to high light.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rare Plant Catalog","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50635195023640,"sku":null,"price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0912\/1175\/9896\/files\/droseragraomogolensis_bdf6fa75-5b9c-4da8-9cdf-bba0e48f2576.png?v=1759977276"},{"product_id":"roridula-gorgonias","title":"Roridula gorgonias","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoridula gorgonias is one of two species in the genus Roridula, both of which are endemic to the cape area of South Africa. 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