kurt decker
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I may be completely wrong, but I can't help thinking that this looks so much like the croton which I got from Dave McClean years and years ago, and which I was recently told is Halloween. The photos are shown in the wiki under Halloween.A real rarity. Bob Alonzo sent me this picture the other day. Very nice. I had a cutting years ago, but it never rooted.
anna, i believe it is coral shower. it is a mike fascell plant. there is another one, coppinger's coral shower, very rare, very cool, very different. it still exists, i am told, small, spiral
I got mine at Ana's auction last year and it was pretty small. It is starting to settle in and put on growth. The habit is the same as the photos but the colors are not quite the same, which is often the case because of lighting but it definitely has spiral leaves. I will take a picture when I get a chance. People did not seem all that excited about it at the auction because I got it cheap, but I really like it. I have a feeling it looks quite different from the example in Dr. Brown's book, but will need to double check. I got it from a couple of women who brought several smaller plants including a really nice little Reliance. I am terrible at remembering people's names that I only see once or twice.I just found this post on another thread. If there are two different plants named Coral Shower, it would be good to ID the pictures with the hybridizer. Is the Coral Shower that is in most collections the Mike Fascell plant?
This makes sense. Sounds like the wiki might need to have 2 Coral Showers. The description on the wiki for Coral Shower talking about it being a Coppinger hybrid I assume would go with Bob's photo and the photos on the wiki would go with Coral Showers (Fascell) which is obviously what I have and a different plant. I thought all three looked like completely different plants, but I am far from an expert. The one in "Crotons of The World" also looks more like the Fascell plant. Interesting that the Coppinger cultivar is interrupted and the Fascell is spiral, and very different in color. Apparently they just happened to end up with the same name. Learn something new every day. I wonder if anyone else has the Coppinger cultivar.We're talking about three different plants here. That Halloween looks very similar to the plant on the cover of the croton book which I have drooled over for years. The regular (Fascell) Coral showers is mostly red. It is a great plant. Coppinger's coral shower is super rare. Bob has told me it still exists, and he just took that photo the other day.
We're talking about three different plants here. That Halloween looks very similar to the plant on the cover of the croton book which I have drooled over for years. The regular (Fascell) Coral showers is mostly red. It is a great plant. Coppinger's coral shower is super rare. Bob has told me it still exists, and he just took that photo the other day.
Keith, can you get a photo of yours on your cell phone? One of these days I'm going to make it to your place again. Marie, do you feel this is the same plant? I know it's out of color, but the interrupted leaves and habit resemble it, don't you think? And your tag confirms it? Kurt, thanks for persisting. I know you know.
Its hard to tell from your picture Marie, grow it out, time will tell. Now that we are talking about a interrupted croton, I have wondered why there are so many appearing now. When I first started collecting years ago, you could count on one hand the number of interrupted crotons avail. Even in the heyday of the old hybridizers there wasnt that many. I have 15 or so of my own and still getting more in my seedlings. I know Jose has alot. Any thoughts?
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