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Here are some more: B.H. #3: I believe it came from Jeff at the last auction. The most recent flush has not colored up yet because it is a beautiful croton. Best Hawaiian: This is one I got from Marie at the auction and I had down this name but did not know if it was an official name...

I have been putting permanent tags in the gardens for all of my crotons. As I was going along I was finding several named varieties not in the wiki. I wanted to see if these are correct names or if they are in the wiki under different names. Some may just be too recent and not widely distributed...

Using the information from the wiki I was able to track down that a company in Holland named Ammerlaan Grondcultuur entered Tamara in a major flower show in Holland in 2009. Below are pictures of Tamara from the company that entered it the contest and the large one is from Bakker.com in the UK...

I agree. I keep coming on hoping that David will have it gotten it straightened out. It has been far too long without our fix of crotons under the old oak tree. I think I need to go back to his old thread and enjoy those photos again.

When will we be having a tour and auction in your gardens. Well there may be some issues bringing plants in and out of Costa Rica, but I have loved my previous visits to the country (always with school groups so a bit different).

Now everyone will be lining up to get a Robertico. ;)

Hello Robertico, I am glad you started the thread. These are the kinds of things I enjoy learning from the real experts on the thread who have been working with crotons for decades. I think once we get Phil, Jeff, Lamar, David, Randy and others to add to what Marie has mentioned we will get a...

This is a photo Lamar posted on the Lucha thread which the description had as Australian Eburneum. I had originally thought that having many leaves lightly spotted with green while a few were more like Eburneum was the way to identify Tamara and or Andrew. Never noticed the leaf shape until...

Here is my Lucha and it is about the same size as the Calatheas around it.

This is an old photo of the plant that I have which I had understood to be Eburneum (I think it might have been called Australian Eburneum when I got it from David years ago). To me this looks more like what Marie thought was Tamara in the wiki or maybe it is narrow leaf Eburneum. I know David...

I think I remember a similar discussion in a thread on Lucha from a while back and I thought Andrew and Tamara were mentioned as interchangeable but different from Eburneum. I can tell Lucha apart because the color and habit are very different (my 4 year old Lucha is still under 2 feet tall) but...

Ana, I am the real new kid on the block so to me you are one of the experts. I am a croton addict who hopes to be more of an expert at some point. Phil would be in the category of Croton Master. I just try to soak up as much knowledge as I can every time I visit someone's garden. I have gotten...

Hi Pix, with my unknown crotons I don't even try to find a name unless the person I got them from was pretty sure they had a name but could not remember it or if it was a small plant that they were not sure what it was but thought it could be a named variety. I have several beautiful unnamed...

Pix, Very pretty plant. Does not look exactly like any of the cultivars I am familiar with so don't have any guess on this one. They vary so dramatically depending on the light, moisture, etc., that I am often surprised that a plant I have is completely different in someone else's collection. I...