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Here's Bob in front of one of his mystery Crotons.

I met Bob through PalmTalk and discovered that Crotons are his passion. I was in San Jose at the beginning of this week and he was kind enough to invite me to his house to see his Croton collection. Bob lives at 5,000 ft elevation and growing Crotons there can be a challenge, but they still...

LOL @ Ron! There are actually two of these Crotons, one on either side of the front entrance, and they both have forked leaves. I will get a cutting somehow. I just need to distract all the taxi drivers that hang out by the door... Nature Air has been running specials of $32 each...

Ricky, thanks for the photos. It's good to see other crotons with this leaf shape, I think it's very interesting!

Ray, Next time I fly into the Pavas Airport I'm bringing my clippers...

No, I didn't have any clippers or anything with me to take a cutting. Plus there were too many taxi drivers standing out front asking me if I needed a ride.

On the same bush, some of the leaves were pointed, others were more rounded, and then there were those weird shaped leaves that were mixed in. You can see the shape of the new green leaf on the first photo, and the new greenish/yellow leaf on the second photo

A few more photos. Has anyone ever seen Croton leaves shaped like this?

I flew over to San Jose on Saturday and then flew back to Quepos today. While at the Pavas Airport, I noticed these Crotons growing near the entrance to the front door. I started looking a little closer and noticed some strange shaped leaves. Not all of the leaves were shaped like this, but...

Now that's fast! Thanks Dean, I just finished watching part 2. Just incredible! Too bad Jeff doesn't ship to Costa Rica. I would be keeping him busy.

Dean, Can you define "shortly"?? :) I don't have TV, so I really look forward to stuff like this!

I just got finished watching the entire thing. Dean, thanks so much for doing this. Jeff's commentary is priceless and the photos are book quality. Wow, wow, wow!!! I can't wait for the next installment. Damn, I want Bentinckia condapanna!

And I thought this one was kind of interesting. Most of the leaves curl, but some are straight.

Narrow leaf with very bright colors

Really long narrow leaves on this one

Nice colors on this cutting

Another one

I came home with a whole bunch of cuttings. Should I remove ALL leaves before trying to root a cutting? This one is growing next to the porch of their house and I always admire it whenever I am visiting them. I'm very happy that I got a piece of this one today.

You can't beat this one for bright colors!

There were a whole bunch of this cultivar that had purple/black looking leaves.