Alcantarea turgida orange flower The plants form dense

The plants form dense

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

Great for bonsai work

The leaves are broadly variegated with white up the center

but sort of an ever-increasing blob

Alcantarea turgida orange flower The plants form denseA 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