What is your most precious, rare or irreplaceable plant?

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What is your most precious, rare or irreplaceable plant?

Post by seedscanada » Fri Nov 29, 2013 9:23 am

My wife asked me the other day... "If our house was burning down, would you save a plant from the fire?"
Hesitated, but answered yes... but I had more than one plant I'd want to save! What are yours?

My most uncommon:
Avocado, 3 yrs, grown from seed (3 feet tall, three feet wide, just grew that way):
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/10774066765/" title="Avocado tree by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5498/1077 ... 784c_c.jpg" width="800" height="596" alt="Avocado tree"></a>

and Lychee <i>Litchi sinensis</i>, also 3 years old..
<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/seedscanada/11084453943/" title="Litchi sinensis 1 gallon by seedscanada, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3760/1108 ... 4e16_c.jpg" width="600" height="800" alt="Litchi sinensis 1 gallon"></a>

I'd also try and save my seed grown: McCurtain and eucalyptus debeuzevillei growing in one pot, as well as prickly pear cactus, and my oldest travellers palm. But that is the short list.

So many of my other precious plants are already planted outside!

What is your most uncommon, precious, rare or irreplaceable plant?


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Post by DesertZone » Fri Nov 29, 2013 11:45 am

That's a tough one, I think my j-tree.
It's like who would you save "your wife or your child", I would go with the child, she weighs less. Easier to carry. :lol:
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Post by hardyjim » Fri Nov 29, 2013 1:57 pm

Precious -
1.of high price or great value; very valuable or costly:

1.Encephalartos Princeps
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Rare -
1.coming or occurring far apart in time; unusual; uncommon: thinly distributed over an area;

2.Agave Medio Picta Alba
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3.Irreplaceable -

1.incapable of being replaced; unique:

3.Trachycarpus Princeps/Sequoiadendron Giganteum.
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If I still had any Trachycarpus Burma left I would put that in the last 2 categories.
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Post by chadec » Mon Jan 06, 2014 11:52 am

Ok, I am late to the party here.

1. Aloe polyphylla
2. Agave Neomexicana 'Sunspot'
3. Agave Parryi var. Huachucensis 'excelsior'
4. Agave Potatorum 'cubic'

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