This second selection by Renny Wong is an open-pollinated hybrid of uncertain parentage. Originally Renny numbered it D-021 for reference, explaining that the “D” signified the year of the Dragon in the Chinese Zodiac (last in 2012) when she started to propagate this selection. According to Renny, rosettes can become quite large, up to five inches across. The leaves are broad, the retuse apex being about as wide as long, with a beautiful marbling of green and white, blushing pinkish in the new growth, or over the entire plant when grown under leaner conditions. Under magnification the leaf surface is reminiscent of a desert landscape of shallow valleys separated by low ridges. However, it is as if this landscape is being viewed in photographic negative. The “valleys” are the darker lines finely speckled with white spots like evenly spaced shrubs. The “ridges” are composed of pale, translucent tubercles merged into lines punctuated by larger spots than in the “valleys”. We offer plants of HBG 133335, from tissue culture, $20.
Published in the Cactus and Succulent Journal, Vol. 90 (2), Summer 2018