Calibanus hookeri 5" caudex!

Calibanus hookeri 5" caudex!Calibanus hookeri Family: Agavaceae. An strange caudiciform plant from Mexico. It is essentially a big tuft of grass growing from a woody caudex. The leaves are rough textured and bluish in color, especially as the plant matures. The larger the caudex gets the more individual tufts will form. Large, mature plants can have a caudex two feet or more in diameter with a hundred or more tufts of leaves. That takes many, many years and can be kept smaller

Keep very dry in the winter unless you have good growing conditions

An unusual species from Madagascar with thick

likely a cross with H

This plant forms stems a foot or so tall and forms large clumps in time

This is the normal form of the species

otherwise it will become more green

Keep it pretty dry until it starts growing again

It has wooly white hair

Should that happen just replant the healthy part of the stem and it will root

Haworthia obtusa 'Dodson' A cute purple to green species with round window leaves

It forms numerous thin green stems covered in round green and creamy yellow succulent leaves

This reminds me a lot of the far more expensive Coryphantha elephantidens inermis (but with curved spines)