Pseudopanax 'Fiddlesticks'

[countrylover]

Now that's a really cool plant, a bit like crassifolius but upside-down. Anyone has it or is it still not available in northern hemisphere?
http://www.awanursery.co.nz/our-plants/ ... dlesticks/

[fern Rob]

Wow i like that, if i can find one I'm going to purchase it.

[Mr List]

think this one would be best as a container plant to keep it small

[fern Rob]

think this one would be best as a container plant to keep it small

I would allow it to grow huge.

[countrylover]

I wonder what adult form looks like. And will any nursery bring it to Europe in near future?

[fern Rob]

There may be someone in Europe growing it somewhere its just locating the supplier.

[countrylover]

Google shows only NZ suppliers

[fern Rob]

Google shows only NZ suppliers

Have you tried RHS plant finder? I wonder if I could get hold of seeds.

[countrylover]

RHS I must try.
Seeds? That's too slow for me. I am too old to wait. Wanna have a big plant now!!!

[fern Rob]

RHS I must try.
Seeds? That's too slow for me. I am too old to wait. Wanna have a big plant now!!!

I can not find it on the plant finder.

[countrylover]

Me neither.
Time to think how to smuggle it in to Europe

[Kristen]

I would allow it to grow huge.

But its the Juvenile foliage you want, I think?

[fern Rob]

I would allow it to grow huge.

But its the Juvenile foliage you want, I think?

I like to see plants growing to there full size sometimes.

[Kristen]

I like to see plants growing to there full size sometimes.

Looks like a long trunk with a particularly unremarkable mop on the top, when mature. Whereas it is the juvenile foliage which is "bizarre" (I think because its juvenile foliage is inedible, or unattaractive, to foaraging animals in the wild).

Having said that it will probably do 20' or more in juvenile clothing - they've got some (P. ferox I think) pretty much that tall at Urban Jungle - dunno how they get them through (most!) winters

P. ferox juvenile foliage:


Adult:

[fern Rob]

They are very interesting plants. If I planted one in the ground i think i would mix plenty of sand.