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This guide is designed to assist with your exploration and identification of garden plants.

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Plants

A group of African bulbine plants with stalks culminating in orange and yellow flowers.

African Bulbine

(Bulbine frutescens)

A grouping of Artichoke Agave.

Artichoke Agave

(Agave parryi var. ‘truncata’)

A shoulder-high row of Leucophyllum full of purple blooms along the Sunnylands Center and Gardens' parking lot.

Barometer Bush

(Leucophyllum spp.)

A Beaked Yucca blooms in the Gardens.

Beaked Yucca

(Yucca rostrata)

A close-up of the leaves and spines of the Black-spined Agave.

Black-spined Agave

(Agave macroacantha)

A large group of coral-blooming Blue Elf Aloes.

Blue Elf Aloe

(Aloe x. ‘Blue Elf’)

A close-up of the Blue Torch cactus.

Blue Torch

(Pilosocereus azureus)

Multiple stalks of Brakelights Hesperaloe full of deep red blooms.

Brakelights

(Hesperaloe parviflora ‘Brakelights’)

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