Something tells me you like a challenge because it really isn't very pretty.

Are you referring to imperialis or to collosus? Imperialis is OK, standard Pleuro with nice leaves and average flowers. The attraction of collossus is the rarity. 100% of the members of my society have never heard of it, even fewer (ha ha) have ever seen it.

To my knowledge, Andy has the only one in SOCAL in his private collection. I'm sure there are others around but they have not surfaced yet. Collecting rarities is one of the attractions of the hobby. Big floofy catts are beautiful but there are 10,000 different ones and they make new ones faster than the US Postal Service can print new stamps which they do every other week.

Collossus has small flowers, less than 1/2" in size but it has hundreds on each leaf. Leaves the size of dinner plates and over 3' tall make it a challenge. It is not commercially available but someone is going to Columbia in the spring who thinks he can get one. I would be tickled pink to get one.

It's like collecting stamps, beauty is just one of the many aspects that go into making a stamp valuable and desirable.

Nick