Have you contacted Shoal Creek Succulents? 417-632-4844 is their number.

yes i did...a long time ago..no luck...thanks anyway

i go to their website now and all i get is a tiny red box that says 'Home',,,,they must be out of business. They are on EBay selling, but their website is down as of tonight al least.

Which is why I suggested calling them.

Oh. If they are in business to sell to the public, i would think they would have an active website. i'l call today.

Excuse me for asking a dumb question, but this is different than the generic 'zebrina' in that the central ring is larger and more protuberant? I have and have given away a ton of the generic to the point that I think I only have two or three plants left!!!

I was trying to figure out the difference, and found a photo at the bottom of this thread from another forum that seems to show the difference. It's a much more robust flower, and stockier plant, even.

Bob Smoley in Florida has it on their website. He is a one man operation and can be slow, I hear. He has also had some health issues but he has TONs of huernia/orbea/Stapeliads. You will find them under Asclepiads on the home page.

Asclepiads page , Bob Smoley's Gardenworld

'BikeDoc'...yes it is a much different flower, it is like twice the size of the regular Zebrina, and the center red round ring is super pronounced, and it is just a much bigger flower, thus the name 'Magniflora' Finally...here is the Magniflora picture I wanted to post. this is why i want it in my collection. This one is in Hungary!

Bob Smoley (above) has one for $5

Plum Brandy? I had this exact one years ago. The flower looks almost like wax, thats why i loved/love it. The plant is stockier and the flower looks like this. There is a new variety called 'Plum Brandy' that looks like the picture I posted? Hmmm. I went to Bob Smoleys page, i use to buy from him/them, I forgot about them, i guess during their reorganization years back, and stopped getting his catalog in the mail. I looked at his picture of Magniflora, and it looks like the common one.

While it is $5, which is fine, they have a minimum purchase, and the shipping is high,and of course I am lucky to live in Fla, so i pay tax on it to. BUT if it is the Magniflora I want, i have an order waiting to place for several huernias, So I sent them an email, asking if their Magniflora looks like the one in MY picture. I will wait to see what they say.

They are now selling also a variety called 'Super Z', I got that last year from Miles 2 Go, and it does make a huge Zebrina flower. BUT even it doesnt have this 'waxy' look to it. And it rots VERY easily. I have replaced it 3 times already.

I am not on Facebook, and wouldnt know how to find the 'Huernia group' if I joined that site. I have stayed away from Facebook so far, because of all the hassle people tell me that site is, when you join you get pestered by people you dont know to 'friend them', or 'ghosts from your past' turn up and it is a drag. BUT...if it would get me THIS plant I would join it!!

Well Bob Smoley wrote back and said that 'there is a wide variety of Zebrinas out there,and the one I sent him in the picture is one of them', but he cant be sure his looks like that'.

I wrote back today and thanked him ,and asked if his has a BIG flower and more whitish 'petals' on it, like in my pic, or are his the yellow type and look like his pic, online. Waiting for a reply now. I just dont want more common Zebrina. I have enough. I cant get to Poland or Europe to get this one if that is where it s now only:(

I hear that Bob Smoley can be a bit touchy.

That is why i stopped ordering from him...and he stopped sending catalogs out...so i forgot him,but he can be 'touchy'. But I think he plants are of good quality...I cant recall....but I would buy this one from him IF it looks like the one I want.

I ordered it from Bob Smoley but it's not magniflora. The one they sent me has small stems like the regular zebrina.