845 Mason Road, Vista, CA 92084, USA
nocturnal phone: (760) 631-7898
email: sphaeroid@juno.com
Compression, Compaction, and Condensation List Lucky 13.0
February 22, 2008
We're having growing pains again, with pots scattered hither and
yonder. This morning I swept under ten benches, bumped my head only
once, and discovered the upper half of a broken label whose tail end
had forlornly accompanied some ancient ophthalmophyllums. Zag matched
zig! Whilst engaging in congestion and consolidation I've discovered
all sorts of interesting things that might find takers. Many of these
are in short supply.
I am offering quite a few conophytums and other "winter" mesembs. To
disturb them now amounts to getting up on the wrong side of bed in
reverse, but they handle it well as long as they travel before April
and are kept for a week in the half-dark. Our weather has been so damp
that the plants haven't yet been cooked into dormancy.
Ordering is complicity itself: email me your desires, I'll email you a
quote including priority postage, and tax where apt; you snail a check
or money order payable to Steve Hammer; off we go.
In response to many inquiries I should note that I have no Ananas
today, also no Haworthia bruynsii and H. springbokvlaktensis. I do have
new broods of seedlings, but these won't mature for two or three years,
even more if the Colorado meanwhile grows as salty as
industrial-strength Swanson. Also I have no variegates for sale.
Whenever one rears its misbegotten head I feed it to my guinea pigs,
for whom the achlorophyllous stripes represent an especially tender
delicacy, like German gourmands savoring blanched asparagus.
* = one per customer
MESEMBS
Aloinopsis
1. schooneesii Springbokvlakte
dappled fingerlings 4.00
2. setifera Kliprand
tough, but plump old birds 12.00
Antimima
3. pygmaea Matjiesfontein *
fascinating at each of its four stages 8.00
Conophytum
4. bolusiae Augrabies
agglomerated cloth-covered buttons 10.00
5. ectypum Eenriet
etchings fetching 8.00
6. ectypum tischleri Aribes
buttercupped flowers 10.00
7. ficiforme Apieskop
incarnations each November 6.00
8. francoiseae Augrabies
palest gray-blue skin 8.00
9. globosum Garies
balloons to a high gloss 8.00
10. irmae Rietkloof
permanently tanned 8.00
11. jucundum subsp. fragile
a code in the node 6.00
12. meyeri
friendly little lobes 4.00
13. meyeri extractum
redoubled chins 6.00
14. minutum Komkans
stark skin and prim fissures 8.00
15. minutum RR 912
garden-variety peas 3.00
16. obcordellum "conspicuum" Groot Holbak
beautiful red-fretted clusters 16.00
17. pellucidum 10 km N Concordia
modified elegans type 6.00
18. pellucidum pardicolor Goegap
designs for loving 6.00
19. phoeniceum S Umdaus
underground bubbles 6.00
20. piluliforme subsp. edwardii
neatly chiseled heads, sparkly nights 8.00
21. quaesitum
self-replicating gnocchi 6.00
22. saxetanum
flowerless pincushions 8.00
23. swanepoelianum subsp. proliferans[ish] Moutonsberg
diamonds in gray 6.00 *
24. swanepoelianum subsp. rubrolineatum Kikvorsfontein
ruby whiskers 8.00 *
25. tantillum subsp. lindenianum
rich green with red stripes 4.00
26. taylorianum subsp. ernianum Rooiberg
sturdiest of all 6.00
27. truncatum Oudtshoorn
Swedish dumplings 6.00
28. truncatum Seven Week's Poort
pastel petaloids 6.00
29. truncatum var. wiggettiae Hazenjacht
see spots run 6.00
30. uviforme subsp. subincanum Wolwenes
concorded grapes 8.00
Faucaria
31. felina Cradock
exuberant red-backed petals 4.00
Gibbaeum
32. album Springfontein
Hortense's bosom companion 4.00
Lithops
33. karasmontana opalina
Fritz's puffy strain 3.00
34. lesliei var. mariae
cinnamon pixels 3.00
35. localis Greensand
fine-speckled but not gold-dusted 3.00
Monilaria
36. [Meyerophytum] obconica Riethuis
robust greenish-white flowers 4.00
37. pisiformis
bedraggled beauties 10.00
38. scutata? S Garies
craggy joints 12.00 *
Pleiospilos
39. minor Sandpoort
charming miniature livers 4.00
40. nelii
apricot and peach petals 4.00
Schwantesia
41. borscherdsii Upington
pebbled skin 4.00
Titanopsis
42. calcarea
warts and awl 3.00
UNMESEMBS
Haworthia
43. angustifolia
missing ink $ free $
44. aristata GM 553
dark sheen 4.00
45. bolusii var. blackbeardiana
whitebeard's more like it 6.00
46. cooperi var. pilifera
rhubarb to azure in summer 4.00
47. emelyae var. major
fine selected clones 10.00
48. emelyae var. major x bayeri
leaf-prop of a nice cross 4.00 *
49. fasciata browniana
robust and richly green 4.00
50. gracilis var. tenera GM 295
wispy tufts 3.00
51. magnifica var. splendens E Albertinia
sparkle plenty 10.00
52. pygmaea near Herbertsdale
oddly greenish form 6.00
53. pumila
Japanese-American cultivars 8.00
54. truncata near Schoemanspoort
elegant patterns from wild seed! 12.00
55. variegata
emerald fountains 8.00
56. venosa subsp. tessellata
diverse and sundry data-bearers 8.00
Gasteria
57. batesiana
tie-dyed seedlings 8.00
58. ellaphieae
pale embossments 6.00
Massonia
59. sp. Plettenberg Bay
small cordate leaves 6.00
Ornithogalum
60. fimbromarginatum Piketberg
seedlings pre-fringe 2 for 3.00
Rhadamanthus
61. platyphyllus
basketball grooves 3.00
Adromischus
62. nanus
smallest leaves in the genus 6.00
63. phillipsiae Verlatekloof
shocking flowers 6.00
SEEDS
Othonna
64. Othonna cakilefolia Vaalkrans
rare purple-rayed beauty 10 SEEDS 1.00