Trachycarpus takil Caucasus Mountains After several years of evaluation

After several years of evaluation

We first became familiar with the hardy bromeliad Puya dyckioides on our 2002 Argentina trip

where it can be found growing in sunny rock cracks near the crater's rim

'Shining Tot'

Trachycarpus takil Caucasus Mountains After several years of evaluationTrachycarpus takil has been a real life mystery plant following a series of seed collecting expeditions to its home at 7,000' elevation in remote northern India over the past few decades. Most expeditions wound up at a population of Trachycarpus fortunei, now known as the cultivar Trachycarpus 'Nanital'. Finally, seed collectors made their way back to the real Trachycarpus takil, and we are thrilled to finally make it available. Our original plant of