Room of Rares – Fall 2017 – UC Botanical Garden

Room of Rares – Fall 2017

October 9, 2017

Eucalyptus forrestiana

The Fuchsia Gun is small tree 12'-20' with bright red cap and yellow flowers appearing in summer and fall. The striking blooms are red with yellow stamens. The pear-shaped fruit is red. We have a beautiful plant in our entrance planting that generates a lot of propagation requests. Prefers well-drained, sandy soils and full sun. It is drought and frost tolerant

Eucalyptus forrestiana

The Fuchsia Gun is small tree 12'-20' with bright red cap and yellow flowers appearing in summer and fall. The striking blooms are red with yellow stamens. The pear-shaped fruit is red. We have a beautiful plant in our entrance planting that generates a lot of propagation requests. Prefers well-drained, sandy soils and full sun. It is drought and frost tolerant

Berzelia galpinii

The Button Bush is endemic to the South African Cape Floral Kingdom. This 3-5’ shrub features fine, needle-like leaves and spherical clusters of flowers. This unique and delightful shrub is ideal for low maintenance, low water use gardens.

Rhodedendron 'Pink Brook' (sect. Vireya)

Encephalartos caffer

Bocconia latisepala

Shrub growing to 3 feet tall. This is a very rare variety of Bocconia. Hardy in zones 9-11. Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Brugmansia vulcanicola

Telanthophora uspantanensis SYN.: Senecio uspantanensis

Succulent stemmed shrub from four to twelve feet in height, pale green, smooth-margined leaf blades can be seventeen inches long and five inches wide, borne on handsome purple petioles. It produces large clusters of tiny, yellow flowers in fall and winter. Oaxaca State, Mexico

Baccharis (special golden form)

Aloe 'Hercules'

Special one time offering of specimen Nepenthes

Special one time offering of specimen Nepenthes

Special one time offering of specimen Nepenthes

Gasteria armstrongii

Euphorbia buruana

From southeastern Kenya and northern Tanzania, Euphorbia buruana is a Spiny shrub that puts out variegated green stems. These stems radiate from atop a tuberous root system that, in cultivation, may be exposed as a caudex as we have done.

Pachypodium namaquanum

Pachypodium namaquanum is one of the most sought-after and desirable of succulents from the arid Northern Cape, South Africa and southern Namibia. Seen from a distance, the plant has the appearance of a person trudging up a slope, which is the reason behind its common name of Halfmens (Afrikaans for 'semi-human')

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