Cyrtomium falcatum Plasticity Agave with long spikes of large

with long spikes of large spider-like flowers with long cherry-red spurs

Yucca Wilder's Wonderful' cannot be tissue cultured

dotted liberally with green flecks

The bright ruby-red spathe holds the whip-like ruby appendage which resembles an Arisaema griffithii whose hood has been lifted up in the front

Cyrtomium falcatum Plasticity Agave with long spikes of largeCyrtomium 'Plasticity' is a 2011 Plant Delights JLBG introduction of plant I spotted back in 2008, walking through the temperate house at the Missouri Botanic Garden. My eye was drawn to an obviously odd holly fern in the midst of a mass planting of Cyrtomium falcatum. Upon feeling up the foliage (still legal in Missouri at the time), it was obvious the ploidy (the number of chromosomes) was higher than normal. Instead of feeling like a normal holly