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Intermediate
Join Date: Jun-2002
Location: Hudson, FL
Country: USA
Posts: 402
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Finally, here are some Malpigghia Coccigera or Singapore Holly.
They have the same flower only lighter pink. They are much harder to get branching on and it takes forever to get any kind of trunk on them growing in pots. Also, those little prickers on the holly like leaves are the real thing....they will eat you alive while you work on them.
I think I am partial to them because this is the first variety of Malpigghia I ever owned. This particular one is probably 15 years old now. I found it at a flea market of all places. Hadn't see one in years and this lady had spread her blanket on ground and was selling about a dozen of the scrawny little things. $2 ea. This one is the stock plant/parent for all of the current Coccigeras that I have. Again, I gave away probably half of what I had about a week ago and am down to about 8 or 10. This one is probably 14 inches tall as well. I am tempted to do another trunk chop on it to get more taper for the girth that is there....but I probably won't. I have been doing drastic trunk chops on some of the up and coming plants in training and they are looking good.
I hope the close up of the base turns out. I had to size it smaller than the default setting made it, as it was just a wee tiny bit too big still....
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