A "Christmas" request for Jeff Searle

[Crazy for Crotons]

Jeff, could you please post a photo of the plant Bob Alonzo identified as Christmas. Many thanks! I'm trying to distinguish between what we've been calling Dr. Lin Yu Tang and what I saw at your sale labeled Christmas. I'm very confused by these two plants.

 

[Jeff Searle]

Jeff, could you please post a photo of the plant Bob Alonzo identified as Christmas. Many thanks! I'm trying to distinguish between what we've been calling Dr. Lin Yu Tang and what I saw at your sale labeled Christmas. I'm very confused by these two plants.

Ray,

Yes I will, it just might take after the weekend. One of our daughters decided to "borrow" the wire to connect the camera to the computer to download some pictures.

But I can tell you, their definitely two different crotons when you see them side by side. I can bring a Christmas to Ricky's this weekend for the auction. A couple of nights ago, I was looking through some old pictures of crotons in some books and low and behold, I found a croton named Christmas and it was a dead ringer for the same croton that Bob just id'ed for me.

 

[Moose]

Here is the "Christmas" cultivar that Jeff Searle generously donated to the auction at the International Croton Society meeting at Ricky's garden yesterday. I was the fortunate high bidder for this cultivar. Phil Stager has posted photos of "Dr Lin Yu Tang" on another thread. I will post these photos of "Christmas" there as well for comparison.

Ron.