That cycad is awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice pic's stephania

That's some pretty cool stuff.

Stephania, youve done it again. Great lot of photos almost as good as being there in person.

I often hear how you can buy many products cheap on the Asian market. Never been there myself so could be completely incorrect.

I was wondering though how the prices of such plants like broms compared with prices in USA or Australia as many of them are originally imported to Asia from other countries.

HDD, I was thinking the same thing. I've seen pictures of variegated C. revoluta around the net but never in person. Check out the link below for some really crazy cycads.

Wow ! what a place Stephania !
Maybe its best I'm here, so far away.
That market would have all my savings,and I'd have all their plants !
Bob ;^(

You mean these plants from Michael's in Florida. I thought I'd have to get on a plane and go half way around the world, instead all I need is a day trip!!!

If you havent visited Michael's ....you have missed a rare treat

What a great tour, Stephania. A lot of philodendron hybrids come out of there as well. Have you seen any of those?

Excellent photos, as always, Stephania. I want one of each of those colorful Aglaonemas, and I'll take the blue Neo too!

P.S. Japie, do you see what I see in picture #6? ;-)

Wow Stephania! We can allways count on you to take us on a little tour. Marvelous! Wish I had been there! But like Bob said, then all my savings would be gone!

Spotted, Lisa! Yes, I also would like one of those blue ones in pic #3. Anybody got an idea what that is?

Welcome to Thailand...Everybody !

Well, comparing to another kind of exotic plant here, Bromeliads are quite pricy in Thailand.
One has to buy at a price, for example
that pup of Neo. 'Hannibal Lector' or a big Neo. 'Passion'
cost about 1,000-1,500 Baht (35-50 US$!) or Till. tectorum
or T. xerographica is about 20US$ each.

For cycad lovers, actually those pretty cool plant were imported from China.
These are for special collector, 15,000 Baht up (500 US$ ^) for a foot trunk specimen!

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Or much much more for a big specimen like this one.
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Lisa, There have been hundreds of new hybrid Aglaonema created here for awhile.
They are a popular potplant here, but they are going down!
Those Aglaonema used to be the most expensive here,
you may not believe, as one million baht (35,000 US$) had been paid
for a striking new hybrid by a rich man from Indonesia who really wanted it years ago.
But since the plant has been propagated by tissue culture, you can buy it with 100 Baht!

Next time I will take another plant picture, also Philodendron for you too, Philofan.

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So 100 Baht is about $3.50? For that last one?????? I'll take ten of them!

I know that Thais have been breeding Aglaonemas and I don't know why they haven't shown up here yet. The only colorful one I've seen at all is this one, and it's not common:

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We have friends in the business who go back and forth between here and Thailand all the time, so you'd think they would bring some of these in. Another friend is a flight attendant who used to fly the Honolulu to Bangkok route. He would always bring us all kinds of goodies from Chatuchak Market, in fact that's where we got most of our Globbas and Curcumas. You're so lucky to have such a great resource right in your town!

Now that's a candyland for all of us!

Loved the cactus and especially the agave. Even the little doll babies and hanging pots in pic. 21. I would love 1 of each plant also please.
Thanks for sharing yet another mouth watering area.

What a tour, THANK YOU! It really was almost like being there, and less expensive for sure!

Stephania, Thanks for all those great pictures. Very famous among my friends who went there regulary. I think I want to do my annual shopping there soon!

Great pictures, Stephania. BTW, is that Mr. Yam again, in the picture above with the tectorums? Did he get a haircut or something? I remember his hair being long in the last picture of him that we saw. That was when you posted the pictures of him with the very large T. seleriana. Where are their tillandsias coming from? Are they growing them there?

Thanks for sharing the wonderful pictures.

(^_^)" Thanks all of my Friends...

Lisa, not that big red, normally young plant of some available hybrids
will be 100 - 500 B$. (3.50 - 16.50 US $), but could be more expensive
for a new released hybrids.

Yes Treehaus, it's him Mr. Jam, he gathers his hair up.
Most of Till. in our market came directly from Guatemala source,
and one of my friend, Mr. Seth, also imports some Till. from South America too.

This would be Patris's loving plant: Agave filifera f. variegata in Thai's Bencharongware.
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Gee whizz Stephania, you DO have a good eye for a piture! Looks like that aloe in the last pic was created for that little table. Or did the inspiration for the mosaics on the table came from filifera? Stunning!!!

Your so right Stephania!
I think that colorful beauty would go great with my little Agave leopoldii.
I have not seen this one around so thanks for showing me another spiney that is a must have.

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Here are two more that were inspired by my friend Bob. Just came in from Yucca Do.

Hechtia sp Zapolote Canyon site.
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and Dyckia platyphylla Silver Sheen
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Bob is Yucca Do paying you a comission?

That would be nice John,but so far,I've been ignored.
Bob ;-)
However, I did receive an extra 'gift' plant once,so maybe that was my 'comission'??

Wow! Stephania what a wonderful place, If I lived there I would be in the poorhouse LOL!! because I would be shopping there everyday!!! Beautiful pictures!
bradisha

WOW! I got directed here from the houseplants forum. I might have to check out bromeliads. Is it true that they die once they flower, so they are relatively short lived? Also, can anyone identify the bromeliad in the picture with the pink and white stripes on each leaf?

Actually, most bromeliads reach blooming size in 2- 8 years from seed,
or only 1-2 years from pups. It's true that nearly all bromeliads die
after flowering just once, but it will take one or few years
and we will be rewarded with few or a dozen pups.

Did you mention this one, pink & white stripes ?
It's one of the most beautiful cultivar, Cryptanthus 'Elaine'

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Thank you for your nice reply Stephania. You have enabled me into giving bromeliads a go. Elaine is gorgeous, but I was thinking of starting with something I've seen locally. The pink and white striped plant I was talking about is at the bottom of your first picture--the colors look pastel. Is it a neo or something?

Oh yes Odysseys, it's a kind of variegated cultivar of Neoregelia.
Sorry for the cultivar name, as I'm not much familiar with Neo or other tank type broms.

You know your user name is one of the best to register a new cultivar (^_

No kidding! Is there already an Odyssey registered?! Neat!

I really don't know with other genus, but your name will be great
for my new Dyckia hybrid @^_^@

As I've promised someone here for Philodendron pic...here ya

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Other epiphytes which go along well with broms - ferns, orchids.
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Our local pot and art which made of dirt.
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Thank you, Stephania! I do recognize these aroids. Lots of nice and lush plants there.

The Rhipsalis growing out of the terra cota drain hole-why didnt i think of that?..The wild collected Hyperzia's?.Thats a no-no. Some tremendous plant breeding by the third world.
Under the first Sago picture-anybody know what cacti those are? Like giant muffins.

There were two kinds, Lophophora sp. and Astrophytum asterias 'Kabuto'
Those pricey cacti were imported from Japan.

Pehaps you may not know, there have been many fern growers here
that already propagated those Lycopodium and allies
by dividing or cutting in nurseries.

And the kind of THIRD WORLD people here can also do legally propagation.

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That is an interestng way to market flasks of orchid seedlings!

As somebody(me)of a third world ethnicity-it was a compliment to the ingenuity of the plant breeders,hybrydizers. But,it is a little strange that the Hyperzias are the only plants not in pots or mounted to something out of the thousand or so exotic plants in the pictures.
Really,how is it those Broms never end up at Home Depot?.Why havent such high quality plants-just as easy to grow as ugly plants,never make it to the mass market?..those Cryptanthus make the best i have ever seen here,look like weeds.

As we live in different world, some kind of your exotic may be just a weed here.
If you visit the peat swamp area, south of my country, you will find
some Lycopodium or Nepenthes as a weed beside road like your Till. usneoides.

Hi Stephania,

I notice the JJ market also sells Australian grass tree (Xanthorrhoea). Just wondering how much it cost?

It depends on size, the lowest price for 0.5-1 foot trunk
cost about 3,000 - 5,000 Baht or your 300 - 500 Rinkit
And will be pricey for a tall one, 1-2 metre : 1,000 - 2,000 R.

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Stephania,

Oops off topic.

How I wish to have such a market in Malaysia. Years back I managed to get a Xanthorrhoea johnsonii of 1 foot trunk, however, within 2 years the grass tree simply grown slower and slower until finally the whole tree rotted. Now only have a few small trunkless grass tree.

So sorry my friend, Xan. johnsonii seem to be very difficult in our tropical climate.
You should look for Xan. glauca which grows quite well here.

Amh.... Very interesting

Dear Chanin

Any idea where to locate the guy who can help to obtain phyto-cert at Chatuchak market? Thanks!

Stephania,
thank you for posting those pictures. It looks like the Thai people like very much growing plants, your country must be full of gardens with flowers and plants.
Is it difficult to deflask the artificial propagated orchids in your climate? Here nobody would take the effort of doing that.
Do you know what is the material in #17, that with the brom that looks like alcantarea ? It seems like somebody has the same idea I use for growing orchids that are difficult to keep humid in our dry climate. Mine "support" is made of tuff.

Tomas

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Hi Lindi, do you know Mrs Supranee, a well known ginger lady and fangipani fancier,
I think she could help you, also some of my friend that you should know,
Mr Chanrit could handle. And if you obtain bromeliad from Mr Panom, he can do.

Hi Tomas, that made of a kind of pumice rock.
Normally, if the seedlings small enough, we bring them off by a hook, one by one.
For the bigger seedlings, we just break the flask in a tub of water.
Treat them with fungicide, before hardening or growing.

Hey! Chanin

I do know them, thanks for the information!
Pls keep your Chatuchak coming.