I just received a package with a few new ones. Had a fun evening potting them up and now it's time to show off
Eboshimaru-Tanba, 烏帽子丸短葉 - This one is a seedling selection of Eboshimaru with exceptionally short leaves. I fell in love with the structure of the plant and the wonderfully round leaf tips.
Shunrai, 春雷 - This is an interesting variety that gets yellow stripes, but the leaves emerge solid green, only later developing the bright yellow stripes. The stripes emerge gradually in a mottled fashion, making the variety sometimes look like it has both tora and shima variegation. As a plus, the root tips are bright green.
Oemaru-Shima, 大江丸縞 - This is a famous variety with wide leaves and yellow stripes. Given certain cultural conditions it, like many other neos, can develop strong red pigmentation in the fall and spring which disappears over the summer.
Daisonishiki, 大壯錦 - This is a first generation Daisonishiki, also known as Daishogun 大将軍 in Japan. It's a large variegated beanie originally created by line breeding Fugaku and Tamakongo. The more recently deflasked seedlings are cheaper and more readily available but are generally much smaller in size to the ones from the first generation batch. Those will take 5-10 years to mature to this size.
Kongoho, 金剛宝 - The famous Tamakongo mutation with bright yellow stripes.
Taemyeonggeum, 太明錦 - This one is a Korean variety, famous for its wonderfully bright nakafu variegation which shows up exceptionally well on the stem area.
A few new Neos.
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