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A houseplant with just nine leaves has sold for a record-breaking $19,297 on a New Zealand auction site.
Bids for the "very rare white variegated Rhaphidophora Tetrasperma" closed Sunday night, rising in the last four minutes as bidder "foliage_patch" battled the eventual winner, tagged "meridianlamb."
The plant was "the most expensive houseplant ever sold" on the auction site which just goes to show how much Kiwis adore houseplants
Wow. I guess there's expensive rare varieties of everything.
Succulents/cacti in particular. They often take so long to reach their mature desirable form or to bloom an owner may not live long enough to see it. They become multi-generational investments. Especially "crests" and other mutations. There's a succulent supplier I've gotten a few plants from that periodically offers old large specimen plants with multi-thousand dollar price tags. They sell surprisingly often.
If that is a type of plant that can be cloned with tissue culture, the buyer can have a thousand of those ready for market in about 6 months. Sell them for $60 each and he's doing OK with his expensive purchase.
If that is a type of plant that can be cloned with tissue culture, the buyer can have a thousand of those ready for market in about 6 months. Sell them for $60 each and he's doing OK with his expensive purchase.
But, flooding the market with something rare reduces rarity...and value once people who care catch on!
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