The discussion in other thread make me revisit my succulent wish list.
Maybe it is interesting to see what are the succulents that we desperately want as an addition to our collection.
These are my list, not in any order/sequence, also not the best photo as I try hard not the get the photo that may have license/trade mark issue

Tephrocactus Geometricus


Pseudolithos/corepegia Cubiformis


Discorea Elephantipes


Variegated Gymnocalycium Mihanovichi


Pseudolithos/Ceropegia migiurtina


Euphorbia Obesa


Monilaria


Astrophytum 'Super Kabuto'

I have too many...
Unfortunately, money can't buy every plant.

@Kaktus
So you have 8 plants in your top 10

I have far more than 10, i would like mostly aloes (who knew )

k5

marble queen

jeff karsner

wile e

princess jack

parvula


barnicle

luiz de luna - is this even real? one pic on the net



pike


i like other stuff as well


TCT in Thailand killing it right now - i think these plants may be silly expensive

It is funny how the wishlist sees quite a bit of influence from the growing conditions you have. My top 10 most contains mostly large growing landscape plants some of which I already have but as a small plant and who knows how long it will take for it to get to the size that I dream of.

1. The 30+ ft tall multi-armed saguaro - my plant is about 3.5 ft tall. Best way to get these is to buy a house with one in the yard, so I bought the wrong house. 2nd best way is to spend a lot of money to have one transplanted. Right now if that money is available there are more pressing projects than this. So it will be a while regardless. Grow baby, grow!

2. Same for a Cardon... this is more attainable with the plants I have one is going on 7.5' tall and it has put on so much height in the last two years that I wonder if it has got a root in the water pipe. The other one I have is about 5.5 ft tall and has not grown as much. If the big one keeps going I might see it be tall and multi armed in the not so far future. Much harder to get these any other way given that they are not native.

3. Same for an Argentine Saguaro. I pretty much had this at my previous place but it was too large to move. The plant I did move has had some trouble settling in, but it is about 5.5 ft tall and has just sprouted its first arm. And once this starts growing it will go pretty fast. So again this is something that is likely in my not so far future.

4. The tall mature Boojum tree. These can probably be bought in like 6-10 ft tall specimens for lots of money, for now going to the Desert Botanical Garden or Boyce Thompson Arboretum to see their plants is my solution. Mine is about 8" tall. Someone in the neighborhood has one at about 6ft tall and it is a great source of jealousy for me.

5. OK, some not large growing landscape plants: To obtain and grow specimens of all described domesticated native Arizona Agaves. Agave murpheyi is pretty easy (I have a nice variegated one growing in the ground and a regular offset from the big plant I had at the old house in a pot), but the others (verdensis, yavapaiensis, delamatieri, philipsiana, and sanpedroensis) are tough to come by. I had a bulbil of delamatieri, but it did not make it.

6. A nice large Aloe pillansii - these are hard to come by, though on paper they should do well over here.

7. Re-obtain some large mature Ferocacti - the type does not really matter. I did not want to transplant the 6ft F. acanthodes from the old place since it would have been the 2nd transplant in a short amount of time, but the little ones I have grow so slowly... These are available but again generally not within what I am willing/able to spend at the moment.

8. A nice set of large specimens of the hairy cacti. For me at least these have been hard to keep alive and taller than 4ft or so.

9. OK, cannot make a top 10 without a large mature big trunk Desert Rose on it.

10. Some nice large Pilosocerei.

Sorry no pictures and there are more things on the list.

hahaha...Initially I want to set a top 3 for this thread, but end up with 7 to 8 that I've selected from my long list..
Those TCT aloes are stunning, I hope we can easily find those in the Thailand flower market in Bangkok, one day I will check them out in Bangkok

mcvansoest said:It is funny how the wishlist sees quite a bit of influence from the growing conditions you have. My top 10 most contains mostly large growing landscape plants some of which I already have but as a small plant and who knows how long it will take for it to get to the size that I dream of.

1. The 30+ ft tall multi-armed saguaro - my plant is about 3.5 ft tall. Best way to get these is to buy a house with one in the yard, so I bought the wrong house. 2nd best way is to spend a lot of money to have one transplanted. Right now if that money is available there are more pressing projects than this. So it will be a while regardless. Grow baby, grow!

2. Same for a Cardon... this is more attainable with the plants I have one is going on 7.5' tall and it has put on so much height in the last two years that I wonder if it has got a root in the water pipe. The other one I have is about 5.5 ft tall and has not grown as much. If the big one keeps going I might see it be tall and multi armed in the not so far future. Much harder to get these any other way given that they are not native.

3. Same for an Argentine Saguaro. I pretty much had this at my previous place but it was too large to move. The plant I did move has had some trouble settling in, but it is about 5.5 ft tall and has just sprouted its first arm. And once this starts growing it will go pretty fast. So again this is something that is likely in my not so far future.

4. The tall mature Boojum tree. These can probably be bought in like 6-10 ft tall specimens for lots of money, for now going to the Desert Botanical Garden or Boyce Thompson Arboretum to see their plants is my solution. Mine is about 8" tall. Someone in the neighborhood has one at about 6ft tall and it is a great source of jealousy for me.

5. OK, some not large growing landscape plants: To obtain and grow specimens of all described domesticated native Arizona Agaves. Agave murpheyi is pretty easy (I have a nice variegated one growing in the ground and a regular offset from the big plant I had at the old house in a pot), but the others (verdensis, yavapaiensis, delamatieri, philipsiana, and sanpedroensis) are tough to come by. I had a bulbil of delamatieri, but it did not make it.

6. A nice large Aloe pillansii - these are hard to come by, though on paper they should do well over here.

7. Re-obtain some large mature Ferocacti - the type does not really matter. I did not want to transplant the 6ft F. acanthodes from the old place since it would have been the 2nd transplant in a short amount of time, but the little ones I have grow so slowly... These are available but again generally not within what I am willing/able to spend at the moment.

8. A nice set of large specimens of the hairy cacti. For me at least these have been hard to keep alive and taller than 4ft or so.

9. OK, cannot make a top 10 without a large mature big trunk Desert Rose on it.

10. Some nice large Pilosocerei.

Sorry no pictures and there are more things on the list.

wow... those are trees, not something that we can fit in a 5 inch pot..

Some of my want list is overlapping, TJoe's. E. obesa, Monilaria, Astrophytum. I'm not sure how well it would go, so I wouldn't spend much to try bringing one home.

I do get along well with Kalanchoes, so I'm always looking for one of those that I don't already have.

In my world the wishlist concept is sort of past tense... the stuff I really wanted to track down, I have had a few years to locate. So I either have it or have resigned myself to not having it. Not that I'm getting old (but aren't we all), more a realistic take on my relationship with the world of possibility.

At this point it's more about making the most of what I've already got, allowing young seedlings time to grow up and go in the ground and acquire some character.

My future garden (one day) will include a bunch of plants currently in containers, many of which are natives of the region and some of which have the capacity to become huge (eg. cardón). I can imagine great things with a few plants I would like to put in the ground some time soon: Aloe ramosissima (4x), cardones (2x), Calibanus (5x), Dracaena cinnabari, Yucca valida, various barrel cacti and agaves. My wish would be to see some of them get somewhere near mature size. At this point it's just a matter of getting them in the ground and keeping the bunnies from eating them up.

Aeonium2003 said:I have too many...
Unfortunately, money can't buy every plant.

If you have a lot of money, then you can

I ...dont have a top 10 wishlist. Ive actually gotten most of the plants im looking for.
Though I do want a astrophytum myriostigma for the office(and I did have it before, it did well)...and echinocactus texensis for myself(only one that I didnt get over).
And maybe a lophophota or astrophytum asterias.
I do hope the lithops at work make it though...
//Oh. But I do want to take another try on tephrocactus articulatus papyracanthus/

skopjecollection said:
//Oh. But I do want to take another try on tephrocactus articulatus papyracanthus/

It is hard to kill that here... The sections come off so easily that I have 'volunteers' in random pots which at some point were near one of a few pots dedicated to these that I have and it feels like just looking at them the wrong way will make a section come off... re-root very easily.

My wish list contains plants I will never have, just dream about:

Dendrosicyos socotranus. Oops, yes, Adenium socotarnum


Adansonia digitata - African Baobab


Welwitschia mirabilis


Ocotillo


And of course, who wouldn't want a Saguaro.

First pic is actually Adenium socotranum (a frequent companion of Dendrosicyos) but what a spectacular plant!

mcvansoest said:

It is hard to kill that here... The sections come off so easily that I have 'volunteers' in random pots which at some point were near one of a few pots dedicated to these that I have and it feels like just looking at them the wrong way will make a section come off... re-root very easily.

I gave one away to my english teacher. I had another , larger oone but didnt work out. I didnt repot it though.

Kaktus said:hahaha...Initially I want to set a top 3 for this thread, but end up with 7 to 8 that I've selected from my long list..
Those TCT aloes are stunning, I hope we can easily find those in the Thailand flower market in Bangkok, one day I will check them out in Bangkok

@kaktus
I think they are pretty clever and use their best plants for marketing purposes. The plants they sell are nice but not as special . If you find tct plants in the flower market you HAvE to try to send me some 😀
Steve

Some of my current wants:

1) Deuterocohnia species
2) Operculicurya decaryi
3) Moonstones type succulent


I have a lot of other ones but I can't remember them off my head

DaisyI said:My wish list contains plants I will never have, just dream about:

Dendrosicyos socotranus


Adansonia digitata - African Baobab


Welwitschia mirabilis


Ocotillo


And of course, who wouldn't want a Saguaro.

@daisyl
Some amazing plants their daisy thanks for sharing . I can't even cope with anything bigger than my windowsill but it's nice to marvel at natures creations. I am sure I have read a BCSS article on the wewitshia in habitat. I can try to find it if your interested
Steve

These are all plants I will never grow, just dream about (they won't fit in a 5 inch pot ). I would like to go visit all of them in habitat but that probably won't happen either. Well, Ocotillos and Baobobs are both within my waunderings. Southern Nevada is full of Ocotillos, I have seen cuttings in the nursery. Baobobs live in Hawaii. My problem is I don't want a seedling, I want a full grown plant.

Sometimes I 'settle', for instance, I have a probably 50 year old Faux Bob Tree (Pseudobombax ellipticum) in my greenhouse. Close enough to a Baobob.

It is interesting to see some people like Thijs and Daisy have all the big one in the list, and Sedumzz have the list that will be in the bonsai collector's list.

@DaisyI
Welwitschia mirabilis is rare but not big, you can keep it in 5 inch pot for the first 3 years . Interesting plant as I read the same pair of leaves will be there for 100 years... I think the seeds also available online in US.

1. Ceropegia sordida

2. Echeveria laui

3. A huge Echinocactus grusonii. I already own the one in my profile picture. I just want it to be as large as possible one day.

4. More things that resemble fat trees. (I do have a variety of plants of interest.)

5. More aloes

6. Available conditions so my current plants can reach their full potential.

That's about it at this particular moment in time.