Brighamia Species, Alula, Cabbage on a Stick, Hawaiian Palm, Vulcan Palm

I bought this plant from a local nursery after a cold spell! it has no leaves and looks very sad... I need help! can someone please tell ...Read Moreme what to do?? I have it indoors and by a window that does not have direct sun light... When I first noticed the Vulcan at the nursery months ago it was beautiful with leaves and flowers! need help in San Clemente, CA

Purchased this plant from Armstrong Garden Center in 2005 and planted in mostly shade/part sun. It has done great! Looses its leaves mo...Read Morest Winters, but kept its leaves the Winter of 2009. Pale yellow flowers in October.

Brighamia insignis is an endemic Hawaiian plant that is endangered along with Brighamia rockii which is also a Hawaiian endemic plant. Th...Read Morereats to B. insignis have been determined to be human disturbance, browsing and habitat degradation by feral goats, fire and the Carmine spider mite. In addition, invasive introduced plant species' competition has taken its toll. Landslides or hurricanes and other natuaral occurring events have contributed to this plant's demise as well.

This plant is Critically Endangered. Check these websites:
http...Read More://www.vulcanpalm.com and this http://www.iucnredlist.org

The Vulcan palm is moth-impollinated. The
pollinator moth is the green sphinx moth and it was thought
to be extint. The insects do not visit the plant anymore, so
the scientist have to pollinate them one by one. There are something like less then ten plants left on the wild. They are doing a lot of a work trying to save the plant (and, I hope, the moth itself, if it's not extint as they thought).

I would say that *nobody* should dig them up or gahter
seeds in Hawaii or anywhere else. Somebody might be trying to see if other moths can pollinate the plant. It's ok to
*buy* the plant. Doing so you're helping to save the
plant.

The natural habitat of the Älula is on the sea cliffs of Moloka'i, the Nä Pali coast of Kaua'i, and the dry shrubland and mesic forest of Ni'ihau.

Sebastiano

I first saw this plant in Kaui at the National Botanical Gardens about 5 years ago. It was a rare sighting as this plant was considered ...Read Moreextinct about 10-15 years ago. It is a native of that island on the high cliffs overlooking the northwestern side of the island. Now, amazing to me, it is becoming common in cultivation and the last succulent meeting I attended there were lots of these available for a reasonable price. And even more amazing to me is it seems to do well here in So Cal even in pretty cold weather. It does lose its leaves then, but as long as not overwatered, it doesn't rot. I looks a lot like a spineless Pachypodium.