Nice plants! I like the tunilla especially. I think your tephro may be aoracanthus though...

Gah...we're roasting here! Already hit 95 degrees last weekend...my winter bulbs are not happy about that!

I agree...what he called v. truncata is a narrowly distributed population with exceptionally blunt leaves. I don't have the book in front of me, but I think I remember that Greg has some pictures from that locality, and most of the plants don't look much like the 'Huntington' cultivar. My point was ...

The form that everyone has (that was brought to the Huntington by Gentry and propagated from there) is a specific selection of parryi v. truncata, but truncata does not exclusively refer to that selection. That one is more correctly called A. parryi v. truncata 'Huntington'. The plant above has less...

Call it that if you want..."truncate enough" is relative anyway! Care will be the same.

Could be a rodent too. Rabbits, mice, and ground squirrels all leave damage like that.

It is A parryi...not truncated enough to be parryi v. truncata though.

The first one does indeed look like N. euphorbioides.

The temps won't be a problem, but it is awfully wet there...I know some people have grown aloes in florida, but I don't recall which species. Mine is in ground and gets covered below the high 20s, only because it typically is starting to flower when the freezes hit here. It has taken 20 uncovered, i...

That's about big enough...mine first bloomed about that size. Missed it this year; maybe next!

Yeah, with a healthy contribution from E. mirabilis, I betcha.

Better to get one of those LED UV flashlights for finding scorpions, they sell 'em at the gas stations around here! $10 or so, then snoop around at night...the purple light is enough to see by.

That thing is awesome! It was sometime in the fall...I was there in November and drooled over it. Not sure why they made it so tall...I guess they're going to grow some larger show-off specimen plants in there?

Wider pic of the plant, and yes the spines are dry!

Euphorbia virosa new growth is brilliant red...