Agave victoriae reginae ssp swobodae Cyrtomium nearly vertical

nearly vertical

with the edging showing up only on the new foliage

This unique form of the evergreen groundcover

We've also had several plants from this cross flower six years from seed sowing

plantsman David Kuhn shared this unusual mutation from Cryptomeria japonica 'Black Dragon' that he'd named Cryptomeria 'Avid's Dragon'

Agave victoriae reginae ssp swobodae Cyrtomium nearly verticalAgave victoriae reginae ssp. swobodae is one of the new taxa of the Mexican Queen Victoria agave, named after 2011 DNA studies show five distinctly different genetic groups residing under the same name and we can't have that! First discovered by Czech seed collector, Josef Halda in 2000, Agave victoriae reginae ssp. swobodae comes from the Sierra Madre escarpments that run through southern Coahuila and northeastern Durango. Here, it resides on