Alcantarea P.I.T.A. Size:6-inch Pot humid area

humid area

they look like little balls of silvery-white fuzz less than three inches across

A legendary plant

faint red bands and edges heavily armed with red spines

A bronzy-red flush gives the plant an attractive glow

Alcantarea P.I.T.A. Size:6-inch Pot humid areaThis beauty is a wild collected sport of Alcantarea extensa found in nature by Rafael Oliveira, Pedro Nahoum and Chester Skotak in Espirito Santo. Normally glaucous green with some slight banding of trichomes, this cultivar has bold creamy white margins. The plant is a giant grower to about five feet across and nearly three feet tall. Unlike some species it produces offsets after blooming! The offsets are consistently albomarginated like the parent, a