Alcantarea extensa Size:4.5-inch Pot deep green leaves that blush

deep green leaves that blush reddish and have abundant spotting and mottling of white

This species is one of the most desirable and interesting of the Pachypodiums and a delight for collectors and a must-have for the caudex lover

In bloom it looks like a bouquet of baby’s breath in a tiny bud vase

A rare species described only in 2007 by Leme and Siquiera

Steve Correale’s cross of (capitata (red form) x streptophylla) bears some resemblance to both parent plants

Alcantarea extensa Size:4.5-inch Pot deep green leaves that blushA large growing species of Alcantarea with broad, channeled, glaucous green leaves in a rosette to over three feet across. The inflorescence is tall, with long branches near the top. The scape bracts are purplish and the floral bracts yellow. Native to exposed rocky and cliff faces in the Atlantic forest of S. E. Brazil.