Alcantarea turgida orange flower silver over deep green in

silver over deep green in an arching rosette to nearly 3 feet tall

robust hybrid by Jim Irvin is a cultivar of (limbata x bulbosa)

we drove onward to our reward

At anthesis the center leaves blush deep fuchsia pink out the nearly the leaf tips

Great for bonsai work

Alcantarea turgida orange flower silver over deep green inA relatively new (2007) large to giant growing species from Minas Gerais, Brazil, where it grows on rocky slopes, often on bare rock outcrops. Considered threatened in nature due to fires and collecting by local landscapers, it is a spectacular species that is hard to overlook in habitat or in a garden. Broad leaves form a large, open, funnelform rosette and blush deep red in its full sun habitat. Related to A. geniculata and to A. vinicolor, it