This is a popular variety of banana that does produce edible bananas and gets to heights of 8 to 10 feet.  It does sucker.  It wants full sun and tolerates temperatures below 32 degrees F. (although frosts can burn the leaves, most plants come back).  Leaves are green and trunks are six to 10 inches thick.  Growth rate is good.  The fruit it'll produce is excellent.  Plants on sale are large for their containers.

BRAZILIAN RED CLOAK
MEGASKEPASMA ERYTHROCHLAMYS
AMAZING PROMINENTLY RED LARGE SHRUB


The Brazilian Red Cloak is super rare and hard to find.  This is probably because most propagation is by cuttings only.  And, you have to have a mother plant to do this.  We obtained two mother plants about ten years ago and have established them here in Encinitas.  We began propagating several years ago.  This is considered a "bush" but can reach heights of eight feet or more.  It blooms red when the weather is more cool - November to April.  The mother plants are in blossom right now!  The terminal leaves turn red and hide the small white blossoms within (thus the "cloak" in the name).  The red colored photo is of our mother plants.  These can be mail ordered but you have to be in at least a 9A environment to grow it.  Cold tolerance is down to about a freeze.  We only have a few for sale.

Regular price 1.5 gallon $65
Sale price this size $45 (limited supply)

CANNA LILY
ARRIVING PRESENTLY
SUMMER BLOOMER
ASSORTED VARIETIES

Canna Lilies are a tropical or semi-tropical perennial plant.  They are not a true Lily but called a Lily.  They are probably most closely related to Gingers.  I've found the foliage is a bit less appealing in winter.  Then, in summer when it's warm, they do their thing with rapid growth of pretty foliage as shown here and a prolonged display of colorful blossoms.  They can take our coastal sun or part sun.  I have several types/varieties available.  I'm showing three varieties below.  All have stunning blossoms in summer.  The Tropicana is known for its colorful leaves.  Blossom colors on Canna vary from red to pink to apricot to yellow and more.  Be aware that a Canna purchased now in winter will not look its best until growth resumes in spring.  We restock on these in spring.

Regular price 5 gallon Cannas $65
Sale price this size $40

CRINUM AMABILE - PURPLE
QUEEN EMMA LILY
PURPLE - GREEN LEAVES
DIFFICULT TO FIND AND ALWAYS EXPENSIVE

This Lily is native to all sorts of locations throughout the world including southern Asia, Australia, and Africa.  It is known for it's spiraling display of long, heavy substance leaves that are upright and four to six feet long.  Their color is green and dark purple.  Flowers are white with purple centers and markings (photo below).  It grows like other Lilies by making offset tubers that make new plants.   Expect a mature height of six to seven feet, definitely overhead.  As mentioned, they clump and form a great display of foliage.  They will not "run" or take over an area.  In recent times these have been near impossible to find.  But, we have a limited number of 7 that we’re putting on sale.  We only have a handful of them and they'll be gone soon. 

Regular price 7 gallon $285
Sale price this 7 size $215

DRACENA DRACO
THE DRAGON TREE
TREE FORMING SUCCULENT

This species of Dracena actually makes a rather large tree.  It has thick silver leaves.  It is native to the Canary Islands.  It has the peculiar habit that, after a lengthy time, any given branch stops growing and then bifurcates or trifurcates, giving a very branched pattern. The trunk can get quite thick.  It has fragrant white blossoms.  It likes full sun and is cold hardy only into the mid-twenties F.  This tree wants full sun and does get rather large. 

Regular price large 5 gallon $95
Sale price this large 5 gallon $70

Regular price 25 gallon $595
Sale price 25 gallon $450 (limited supply)

 

EPIDENDRON ORCHID
PINK – PURPLE BLOSSOM
REEDSTEM TYPE TERRESTRIAL ORCHID
HARD TO FIND PINK-PURPLE COLOR

The family of Epidendron Orchids are loaded with species/varieties of lots of different colors.  These include pink, purple, orange, red, white and yellow.  But, one of the most vibrant is the pink-purple as shown here.  It is also an easy variety to grow.  We're putting blossoming one gallon purple-pink on sale.  These plants will have tons of reed-like stems, most of which will blossom this summer.  Leaves are thick and small and plants can be divided in the future to easily add to other areas of the garden.  They'll take coastal full sun or strong filtered light.  Some sun is needed for flowering.  You can plant these right in the soil.  They are cold tolerant into the mid-twenties F.  BTW, this color is difficult to find.  You’ll love them in your garden or in a pot.  Limited supply.

Regular price one gallon in blossom $75
Sale price this size in blossom $60

Regular price five gall $135
Sale price 5 gallon $100

FARFUGIUM JAPONICUM SHISHI BATON
DWARF RUFFLED TYPE OF LIGULARIA
12 TO 18 IN INCHES TALL - RUFFLED LEAVES

This hybrid Ligularia has small, super ruffled leaves.  We've offered ruffled Ligularia before, but this is the first time we've had this hybrid.  It doesn't get that tall, under two feet for sure.  It will take partial sun along the coast or strong filtered light.  It enjoys adequate water and should be quite easy to grow.  We've sold a lot of regular Ligularia over the years and almost everyone is having good luck with them.  This hybrid should perform about the same.  I have no garden photos to show you.

Regular price one gallon $45
Sale price one gallon $35

FURCRAEA MACDOUGALII
THE TREE FURCREA
INTERESTING MEDIUM SIZED, SUN LOVING TREE
BLUE GREEN FOLIAGE – WATER CONSERVING

This species is a stunning member of the Agave family.  It is known as the tallest Agave and is native only to a small area Oaxaca, Mexico.  There it lives in hot, dry scrubland.  Overall height in the wild gets to twenty feet, although plants in cultivation often flower at a height of about ten feet.  Leaves are blue-green in color, very fleshy and stiff, and pointed upwards.  They are also thick and firm with small spines along their margins.  When old dead leaves are cleaned from the trunk, it is very cool looking.  When this species flowers, a huge upright flower up to twenty feet emerges.  Initially there are white flowers and these are followed by a large number of "bubils" that fall to the ground and are the means of propagation.  The mother plant then dies.  Cold tolerance from reports is about 22 degrees F.  It is a full sun plant.  The 15g plants on sale are ten years old and, if anything, bigger than shown here.

Regular price 15 gallon $275
Sale price this size $185

This low profile companion fern can take part day sun or filtered light.  It isn't very tall, perhaps up to 14 inches.  It slow expands over the ground.  The leaves are simple without divisions.  The name "Tongue Fern" refers to its resemblance to the tongue of a type of deer.  This type of fern is native to European counties and the U.S.  It is simple to grow and cold tolerant into the low 20's F.  These plants on special are very large for their pots.  They are about 18 inches wide.

MUSA SUMATRANA HYBRID
A NON-FRUITING BANANA CROSSED WITH A FRUITING BANANA
MAKES A PRETTIER FRUITING PLANT
DEFINITE RED COLOR TO LEAVES


The plants I'm showing here may be very interesting.  It's a cross between the ornamental Musa sumatrana (zebrina) and a fruiting type of Banana.  The hybridizer told me it produces edible bananas but do have some small seeds in the fruit.  Mature height should be about 8 feet.  Like most Bananas, it does sucker and the fruiting stalk is replaced by a new stalk.  It has light green leaves with attractive purple splotches and maroon underside.  See photos below.  It'd want full sun and should be cold tolerant well into the mid-twenties F.  We're putting our 15 gallon on sale.  These plants are very nicely sized with some overhead.  BTW, they are near impossible to find.  I have no mature photos to show you as it's a new hybrid. 

Regular price 15 gallon as shown $195
Sale price this size $155

PANDANUS UTILUS
THE SCREW PINE
 ONE OF THE FEW PANDANUS GOOD FOR THIS AREA

Pandanus utilus is called the Screw Pine but is not a pine at all.  It's actually a monocot (similar to palms) and native to Madagascar, the Mauritius Islands and some surrounding areas.  It gets it's name by the arrangement of leaves which come off the trunk in spiraling fashion, always the same direction.  Thus, the leaves spin off at different angles in a swirl.  Leaves are rather thin and have spines along the margins.  The trunk on this species is quite amazing.  It forms aerial roots (sausage like) that come to the ground for stability.  Trunks fork and form multiple heads of leaves.  Trunks can also be quite smooth, almost snakeskin-like.  It has large fruit clusters that are bigger than grenades.  But, it is a dioecious species and you need a male and female plant to set viable seeds.  Leaf color is green with a sheen of blue.  Overall height is variable, but old specimens can easily be over thirty feet tall with lots of branches.  It takes sun or part sun.  Cold tolerance is probably in the mid-twenties F.  We are offering only a few 5g as shown that we have in stock.  This is an extremely rare species to find for sale.
 
REGULAR PRICE 15 GALLON $250
TEN DAY SPECIAL 15 GALLON $195

PHILODENDRON SELLOUM
VERY LARGE SPLIT LEAF PHILODENDRON
ALONG THE COAST FOR SUN OR SHADE

This is an interesting type of Philodendron for those of you who like big leafed, climbing species.  It's been available for many decades, but more recently is hard to find.  It can develop three foot leaves with a stem that is 4 to 5 inches thick.  It likes to climb and will go slowly up a trunked palm tree.  In my garden, I have several that have ten foot long trunks.  They show interesting old leaf base scars and have lots of aerial roots.  As mentioned, this is a climbing species.  If you plant them where there’s nothing to hang onto they will do fine but produce a shorter, fat trunk for support.  They take coastal full or part day sun.  Far inland areas should give it a few hours of sun or strong filtered light.  They can be grown as a houseplant.  Their cold hardiness is down to at least the mid to low 20’s F.

THE TRAVELER PALM
RAVENALA MADAGASCARENSIS
BANANA-LIKE TREE IN ONE PLANE
IMPOSSIBLE TO FIND LATELY

Most people are fascinated by this large, banana-like plant that has wide, long and soft leaves that tower overhead.  It is native to Madagascar.  The fact the leaves of the Traveler Palm are all aligned in one plane fascinates viewers. But I must first mention that this species is not a palm at all!  Rather, it is part of the Bird of Paradise family.  It got its common name of "Traveler Palm" (aka Traveller Palm) because the leaf bases would catch and hold water for thirsty travelers.  Compared to the Giant Bird of Paradise, it's so much nicer.  It's less maintenance, is not invasive and prettier.  But, the downside is that Ravenala madagascarensis doesn't survive a freeze.  Literally, a freeze will kill it overnight.  This is the first time I’ve had any Traveler Palms available for two years.  I’ve had hundreds of calls by people looking for them and there just aren’t any of any size available.  

Regular price 5 gallon $145
Sale price 5 gallon $115

Regular price 15 gallon $200
Sale price 15 gallon $150

TERMS OF THIS SALE:

THIS SALE ENDS SATURDAY, 9 DECEMBER, 2023
 
•  Full payment must be received for plants to be held by nursery.  No "rain checks".  All major credit cards, cash or checks accepted.
•  Items paid for can be held at nursery and shipped when weather permits.
•  Discount does not apply to special order plants or plant material located for customer from other sources
•  Discounts do not apply to shipping and handling or to sales tax that may be due
•  Discount does not apply to material provided by associate growers.  This includes "crane size" plants/special orders
•  Any unusually long periods of holding plants must be authorized by Jungle Music.
•  Discount does not apply to any other specials or previously purchased plants prior to this Sale
•  No "double discounts" of any sort
•  For mail orders or deliveries, any shipping or delivery costs are not included in plant specials and would be added if needed.
•  Some species are in limited supply.  When stock is not available, any particular sale item may be removed from the Sale without warning or posting.
 •  No guarantees or warranties of any sort are offered on survivability of a given species in Customer's locality.
•  We are not responsible for any typographical, identification or photographic errors.  But, we do apologize if any are found.
•   Almost everything offered in this sale can be shipped or delivered.  Rates depend on items and your locality.  Shipping or delivery may need to be delayed depending on weather.
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