CHUSQUEA CIRCINATA

15-20' height, Sun, 20 degrees F Minimum, Clumper.

 

        Bigger version of Chusquea coronalis, very rare in the U.S. Absolutely gorgeous large rare arching plant with amazing poofy tufts of leaves.  We'd like to have a lot of this one.  We tried 3 culm cuttings in our South Laguna greenhouse in April of 1990.  All were proclaimed dead in May. We lost our mother plants during our move from Tustin to Perris in 1998.  At the fall '95 SCABS sale 2 8" pots sold for $55 apiece.

 

CHUSQUEA CIRCINATA CHIAPAS

10' height, Sun, 20 degrees F Minimum, Clumper.

 

        Smaller form from Chiapas, Mexico. Seed collected by Strybing Arboretum from a roadside plant in the early 1990's resulted in fewer than 100 seedlings. These have been dispersed around the West Coast. The plant has been verified as Chusquea circinata by Dr. Lynn Clark and Gilberto Corts. Nice arching culms are segmented into whorls of slightly larger leaves. In winter the new shoot tips and leaves are creamy colored.