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Calibanus hookeri

Bizarre boulder-shaped caudex with tufts of grey 'grass' all over. In rare localities in Mexico the caudex can grow to the size of a Volkswagen. Easy to grow, in pot or garden.

2.Indoors OK, Outdoors OK, easy to grow.

Big old fella, caudex about 23 cms diameter.
Fabulous deeply fissured caudex.
Even bigger, 50cms plus in diameter of caudex, in a frost-prone garden in Katikati.
Young leaves are blue-grey.
A tangle of bluish leaves from caudices about 12 cm diam.
Big one, freshly dug.
Flower buds.
Flowers
Small seedpod. Self-fertile species.
Christened "Wilson" this one had a close encounter with a weeding spade some years earlier.

Calibanus hookeri

Bizarre boulder-shaped caudex with tufts of grey 'grass' all over. In rare localities in Mexico the caudex can grow to the size of a Volkswagen. Easy to grow, in pot or garden.

2.Indoors OK, Outdoors OK, easy to grow.

Big old fella, caudex about 23 cms diameter.
Fabulous deeply fissured caudex.
Even bigger, 50cms plus in diameter of caudex, in a frost-prone garden in Katikati.
Young leaves are blue-grey.
A tangle of bluish leaves from caudices about 12 cm diam.
Big one, freshly dug.
Flower buds.
Flowers
Small seedpod. Self-fertile species.
Christened "Wilson" this one had a close encounter with a weeding spade some years earlier.