Scored on Ebay

[STEVE IN SO CAL]

...da red one...really scarce...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws....=1&rd=1

Please don't tell me you saw them at HD for $4.99...this has been one of my Holy Grail plants.

[Fouquieria]

and I scored dis from da same seller at about da same time...

-Ron-

[Walter John]

(Fouquieria @ Jun. 27 2007,18:46)

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and I scored dis from da same seller at about da same time...

-Ron-

Hi Ron

What is that plant called ? I have it too, picked one up from the local markets about two years ago, it clumps and even spread another about a foot away.

I think it's the same, I'll have to take a pic tomorrow morning in the freezing cold.

[STEVE IN SO CAL]

Ron...last time I saw one of those on Ebay, it went for gobbs more $...if I'd a known it would go that cheap, you and I would have butted heads over it...

[Fouquieria]

Wally,

It's a variegated form of Agave guiengola.

Steve,

I was going to bid on the Bombax too, but I could only afford one and had to make a choice.

-Ron-

[XYZ]

Steve:

Don't want to rain on your fiesta, but the red/pink-flowered form of Pseudobombax ellipticum is the "normal" phase...the whites are much less common in nature.

I am playing around with three of them as big bonsai...I saw them last year for sale in some upscale succulent nurseries in Scottsdale and was very impressed by how they can be worked as 2 m fat plants. The trunks, as you are no doubt aware, start showing exposed chloroplasts when they're quite young, giving them a very green-marbled look to their stems.

Obviously, they're everywhere here in Guatemala and, ironically, completely unappreciated as an ornamental. They're locally called amapola (¿¿opium poppy??) and the best way to collect seedlings is wandering the edges of corrals and pastures down on the coast. While mainly a semi-stunted dry forest tree, they can attain IMMENSE dimensions when they occur in primary wet tropical ecosystems. Certainly one of the largest (not tallest) trees that I have ever seen here was one of these, adorned by an equally spectacular epiphytic Yucca lacandonica established in the upper canopy.

Here's a new leaf

Good luck with your seedling,

Jay

[leomx]

$51????? holly grail?????  ???

that´s just a HUGE weed!!!! now lets the fiesta go on...  :laugh:

[SubTropicRay]

Gorgeous Agave.