Pot Size: 1.5 litre Price: £35.00 Description: A smallish species with a similar habit to the more conventional G. manicata, only 1 to 1.5m tall and wide. Although more ornamental in colour, as the inflorescences are red, long cone-shaped with short congested arms. Meanwhile the dark-green leaves are palmate and rugose-textured to 75cm wide, with deeper lobbing than the larger conventional species, on spiny petioles. From one of our 2004 Costa Rican collections, growing in dwarfed alpine cloud forest on the Cordillera de Talamanca, a high-altitude plateau at 3,100m running south towards Panama. Best grown in a sheltered site, protecting from severe frosts, in a moisture retentive soil in full to partial shade. Not tried for hardiness yet, best tried when mature.
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