nevermind lol. Time for bed.

I'm propagating a few leaves like this! I recently got a succulent in the mail that looks like it too, I've seen some that look like in picture called 'Ogre Ears". They're cute in their own way, you know?

Bunkfree... sorry I've forgotten your real name! It appears 99.9% to me like you have bagged a Red Horn Tree there, so well done!

It has that robust 'big brother' look so typical of the RHT already to me. Hobbit is its diminutive 'lil bro' type of plant. Mine don't seem to grow the trunks that both Hobbits and their closely related Gollum cousins do, instead they tend to spring directly from close to soil level with lots of low growth...hard to explain what I mean really. Do they make the trunks of C. ovata does anyone know?

I would like to see a big mature plant of RHT, but so far all the pics seem to be of cuttings that have just rooted and what I see as small plants of 6/8 inches or so. Are there RHT's the size of the regular C. ovata out there I wonder? Only seen one plant for sale over here so they're definitely an oddity in the U.K., plus no one I know grows them. My original cutting was in a swap I did via GWeb a few years ago.

My own RHT's have yet to show any leaves that are not Hobbit like in shape, they all have those typical folds and pleats, unlike my Hobbits and Gollums which can have their own type, each other's, or even plain elongated ones as in 'skinny fingers'. I remove the 'wrong kind of leaves' on those to keep them true to form. Their colour is amazing too, yours will change dramatically during the seasons. I will post a few shots of mine later on in a separate post so not to hijack yours :-)

Gill

This is what I have:

1. supposedly Hobbit:

3. Gollum - or Finger jade? (new cutting potted recently and still little shrivelled):

The Search Engine above will show mature Red Horn Trees - I recall Laurent posted some, said he got out of them because they got too big.

Succulentsss - yes, kinda creepy looking but definitely cute in their own way hehe.

Harry, that is some kalanchoe! Is it downy/fuzzy or smooth?

Gill - you can call me Kd. Yay! Red horn :) I hardly ever find the more unusual succulents at Safeway. It's usually just the "same old" varieties in very questionable condition. I like how you described the look, that's exactly it - the beefier "big brother" Lol!

Rina - nice jades! Thanks for sharing. I definitely see the difference with the trunk there. I have a skinny fingers jade that I got from Beth and it seems to have all kinds of leaves; slightly folded, suction cup, and plain ... but all very diminutive. It's got a bit of brown trunk going on:

Marguerite - I did a search and some of the larger more mature ones do have fat trunks. Wow, I hope I can grow mine like that! I've only ever had the Crosby's compact (and way too many of them to be honest). I'm giving away all the cuttings this time and several of my larger established plants... to make room for new varieties weeeeee! I have a bunch of nearly matching green pots I've collected from thrift stores (6 so far like the ones pictured above) and I want to have all different jades in them. I'm on the hunt now for a variegated one.

Or this one, devil's horn. wooooowwwww

kd

Here are my jades:

Yassssss Hummel's Sunset *covet*. What a beauty!

Stupidlazydog, previous jade threads have referenced a Green Horn Tree, basically the same monstrose Hobbit just without the Hummel's coloring. Perhaps that's what your third plant is. The variegated Hummel's is gorgeous!

I've read different things about these. Can you propagate these from a leaf? Or does it need to be a stem?

I find Gollum leaves always produce Gollums; Hobbit leaves seem to produce C. ovata leaves, or Hobbits, or plain leaves which later become Hobbity ! But Gollum leaves always make Gollum babies, in my experience.