Deppea splendens plants Mail order - Deppea splendens (Cristobal, "golden fuchsia", etc) is one of the rarest flowers in the world

Deppea splendens
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The rare Deppea splendens (Cristobal, "golden fuchsia")

Deppea splendens
not commercially available
Nine non-cloned individuals are known to exist in the entire world. Many of the seedlings had died in the freeze of the early 1990s which further reduced this rarest of plants.
Deppea splendens is one of the rarest flowers in the world and exists in ony a handful of collections. Deppea splendens is extinct in the wild.
Amazingly striking, Deppea splendens flowers are peach coloured or canary with a contrasting burgandy sepals
D. splendens is not frost tolerant
likes warmth but not exteme heat.
We've seen these sell for almost $250 in a 4" size but we want to get them out to people in other areas to increase this plant's chance for survival. Ours are 5 gallon size and are $200 & $20 s/h. This is essentially our cost for hunting them down where they are available through individuals, going there, buying and retrieving the plants and getting them out to you.

Images & info:

A very young 24" cutting-grown plant in flower. More established plants
will reach 8-15' and be covered in blooms (check it out)

Deppea splendens Background D. splendens is a cloud forest plant that is virtually unknown in cultivation and presumed to be extinct in the wild. One of the rarest plants in the world, Deppea splendens looks fuchsia-like (athough it is Peach/Gold with burgandy sepals) but is actually a close relative of the coffee plant. When it was seen in it's native habitat in Chiapas, Mexico, it was 25' tall but is more apt to be 15' in the US.

When it was seen in its native habitat, it was so stunning that seeds were gathered. Later the habitat was destroyed and the last known plants with it. Some of the seeds were successfully grown into plants and this is the origin of *all* Deppea splendens plants that are known today. It was not until recently that seed propogation was done with any success, either, and so most Deppea splendens plants are clones of the original seed plants. Deppea splendens is thought to be extinct in the wild.

Several retail nurseries have tried to stock Deppea spendens in the past but have been unable to offer them for very long - they can sometimes be found in older catalogues but the retail Deppea splendens plants are not available any longer through retail nurseries.

We are a small and very focused operation and we offer these plants in extremely small quantities where a large retail operation cannot. They grow well for home gardeners but because of Deppea splendens' rarity, any neglect on the part of retail nurseries that results in the mother plant dying (as often happens in retail nurseries), the plants cannot be replaced. That is why you will not likely see this plant offered for sale. However, the reasonable person's home garden, with the water and other car most home gardeners put into their gardens, is more than sufficient for this relatively easy plant to thrive.