(Japanese Fatsia, Paperplant)

Enormous palm-shaped evergreen leaves speckled with ivory and striking clusters of creamy white fall flowers are the ornamental highlights of this splendid Japanese fatsia. This moderately compact Terra Nova Nursery introduction has variegation that changes with the seasons. More mature plants exhibit more striking color. 'Spider's Web' was named by Mr. Hirose of Iwakuni, Japan.

Paperplant is a Japanese native that thrives in shaded spots and naturally inhabits forested lands. It can be somewhat...

(Japanese Fatsia, Paperplant)

Enormous palm-shaped evergreen leaves irregularly edged with ivory are the ornamental highlight of this splendid Japanese fatsia. Some suggest it's also slightly hardier than average. A native of southern Japan, it thrives in shaded spots and naturally inhabits forested lands. It can be somewhat invasive and has become naturalized across many parts of the world. Several cultivars exist, the most beautiful having variegated foliage.

The deeply lobed, palmate leaves of this upright bushy shrub...

(Pineapple Guava)

Pineapple guava is a large evergreen shrub grown as an ornamental and for fruit. It is native to the subtropical regions of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. The plant is usually grown with multiple stems which arise close to the ground, though it can be pruned into a standard or small tree.

The leaves are leathery, elliptical to egg shaped, opposite each other on the stems, dark to olive green on the upper surface and silver from dense hairs on the lower surface. Flowers appear spring...

(Pineapple Guava)

Pineapple guava is a large, evergreen shrub grown as an ornamental and for fruit. It is native to the subtropical regions of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. The plant is usually grown with multiple stems which arise close to the ground, though it can be pruned into a standard or small tree. The leaves are leathery, elliptical to egg shaped, opposite each other on the stems, dark to olive green on the upper surface and silver from dense hairs on the lower surface. Flowers appear spring and...

(Pineapple Guava)

Pineapple guava is a large, evergreen shrub grown as an ornamental and for fruit. It is native to the subtropical regions of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. The plant is usually grown with multiple stems which arise close to the ground, though it can be pruned into a standard or small tree. The leaves are leathery, elliptical to egg shaped, opposite each other on the stems, dark to olive green on the upper surface and silver from dense hairs on the lower surface. Flowers appear spring and...

(Barrel Cactus)

Genus Ferocactus contains the primary desert barrel cactus of the North American deserts. It contains 29 species which are either round or columnar in shape. Its range spans most of the arid regions of the American Southwest, dipping down into northern and central Mexico. They are also common in the Baja California peninsula where conditions are extremely arid.

The genus is named from the Latin, ferox, which means wild or fierce. Recent DNA testing has linked this genus...

(California Barrel Cactus, Desert Barrel Cactus)

The desert barrel cactus is so densely covered in small and large spines on its vertical ribs that you'd never know the underlying green stem-trunk is photosynthesizing sunlight. This slow-growing, upright, succulent evergreen perennial occurs on gravelly or sandy soil across the American Desert Southwest and into Mexico's Sonora and Baja California. This species is often misleadingly and erroneously called the compass barrel cactus, as it's confused with another species from this same region.

The...

(Barrel Cactus , California Fire Barrel Cactus)

The desert barrel cactus is so densely covered in small and large spines on its vertical ribs that you'd never know the underlying green stem-trunk is photosynthesizing sunlight. This slow-growing, upright, succulent evergreen perennial occurs on gravelly or sandy soil across the American Desert Southwest and into Mexico's Sonora and Baja California. This species is often misleadingly and erroneously called the compass barrel cactus, as it's confused with another species from this same region.

The...

(Colville's Barrel Cactus, Emory's Barrel Cactus)

Known as Colville's or Emory's barrel cactus, this spined, succulent evergreen perennial occurs on gravelly or sandy soil in Sonoran Desert scrublands: across southwestern Arizona and the northern Mexican state of Sonora. It slowly develops into a rounded or cylindrical "barrel" with numerous ribs lined with clusters of fearsome spines. Mature plants typically reach thigh height, but up to shoulder height isn't out of the question over many decades. The long, stiff spines are usually a shade of gray,...

(Blue Barrel Cactus, Glaucous Barrel Cactus)

The blue barrel cactus develops into a globe-shaped mass with tidy, star-like clusters of long spines. Rather than its succulent stem being green, it has a powdery gray (glaucous) film, making it look bluish. This slow-growing, succulent evergreen perennial is native to east-central Mexico, especially across the state of Hidalgo. With time, basal suckers (new plants) emerge from the base, eventually creating a mounding colony of round cacti.

This cactus has 11 to 15 vertical ribs. On the ridge...