Albuca albucoides *Interesting flat grooved leaves*

Albuca albucoides *Interesting flat grooved leaves*Albuca albucoides A rarely seen species of this interesting genus of winter growing bulbs. The leaves are short and thin with a distinctive groove down the center. Interestingly the leaves lay flat during most of the winter growing season but then put on a late season burst of growth in the spring around flowering time. At that point they leaves become more upright. After flowering the plants go dormant for the summer and die back to to the bulb. It

you probably shouldn't water it at all during the winter

Tubers are approximately 3/4"-1" diameter

Flowers are dark red with many bumps and folds

Mammillaria karwinskiana Family: Cactaceae

They are cuttings made from a mother plant

This species makes flattened pinkinsh orange and brown stems without leaves

A nice green bodied species with white to yellow tufts of hair when mature

they are unavoidably handled in producing them

Please note: This is a winter growing plant so it tends to put on most of the growth when the weather is cool

Can take the occasional light frost but isn't tolerant of hard frosts

Flowers are yellow

It clumps heavily in time