Oxalis palmifrons Red Foliage Plants apple-red pitchers

apple-red pitchers

Although the high-mountain forms tend not to thrive in our wet

neutral or slightly acid soil

finger-like fronds atop a thin black stalk

25" flowers dangling from long 8" pedicels (the stalky things attached to the stems)

Oxalis palmifrons Red Foliage Plants apple-red pitchersIf Oxalis palmifrons isn't the cutest plant that you've ever grown, then you need to re examine your definition of cute. Oxalis palmifrons hails from the deserts of South Africa's Western Karroo. This insanely cool oxalis looks for all the world like a giant green snowflake. The slowly spreading patch of ground hugging rosettes spreads to 2' wide in 10 years. Each symmetrical rosette is composed of glaucous green, three dimensional, miniature palm