Pot labels

SUPVAN E11 print setup

The SUPVAN E11 is a 203 dpi monochrome thermal printer that accepts media up to 15 mm wide. The supplied media includes 15 mm continuous tape and 12 × 40 mm die-cut labels. The continuous tape is the better choice for long botanical names and origins; the die-cut labels are best reserved for short ID or orientation markers.

Use the SUPVAN app for these labels. Its saved templates, multiline text, and adjustable label length are more practical than entering every botanical name from the keyboard.

For each individually potted starter plant, print two 15 mm continuous strips:

B2 | OLD MAN OF THE ANDES
Oreocereus trollii

NATIVE: BOLIVIA + NW ARGENTINA
DESC: 1929 | WARN: SPINES UNDER WOOL

Use two lines per strip, a plain sans-serif font, and the largest text that fits. Italics are optional; legibility matters more on a 15 mm label. Let the printer choose the length rather than shrinking a long scientific name into a 40 mm die-cut label.

The E11 listing describes its laminated labels as water-, oil-, heat-, and scratch-resistant, but the same comparison material positions the E11 mainly for indoor use. Treat the labels as water-resistant rather than permanent outdoor tags. Clean and dry the pot before applying one, keep it off the saucer edge, and inspect the adhesive after outdoor heat or watering.

Source: SUPVAN E11 Amazon listing.

Rotation and orientation

Do not print ROT90 stickers for the ordinary individual pots. Put the common-name label on the side facing the inspection aisle. That label is the orientation marker: every Sunday after the light turns off, rotate the pot 90° clockwise. The label will return to the aisle after four turns.

Only the variegated moon cactus and two fixed shared planters need a nonstandard orientation label:

A1 | DO NOT ROUTINELY ROTATE
KEEP PALE SIDE OUT / AWAY FROM LIGHT CENTER

#2 | SHARED SUCCULENT PLANTER
ECHEVERIA SIDE FACES IN / LIGHT CENTER

#1 | SHARED REHAB CACTUS PLANTER
PALE BLUE TORCH FACES DIVIDER / OUT
MONKEY TAIL TRAILS OPEN ROOM ARC

The A1 marker can use a 12 × 40 mm die-cut label if the text stays readable. The two planter instructions are better on 15 mm continuous tape. The former A4-B4 and C4-D4 IDs remain only as historical cross-references.

What “described” means

DESC is the earliest formal botanical publication year for the species or named taxon, not a literal discovery date. Local people may have known a plant long before its scientific publication, and an exact collection or discovery date is often unavailable.

For a cultivar, variegated selection, probable hybrid, or monstrose clone, the native range and date belong to the underlying species unless the table says otherwise. A trade selection's breeder, nursery origin, or release year is not filled in without a reliable record.

PROB. means the identification is still photo-based and may change.

Expanded collection-book fields

This companion table covers every current pot label, with component rows for the two large shared planters. The linked profiles below carry botanical sources and the full collection records. Mountain Crest dates are receipt dates.

Rehab-04, the probable silken pincushion cactus, has no current label because it was removed on 2026-07-24. Its visual history and acquisition uncertainty remain in the historical profile.

Starter cactus labels

Mixed succulent planter labels

All four component labels use planter ID #2; C4-D4 is the former ID. The common and botanical names distinguish the plants from one another.

Older mixed cactus planter labels

All three living component labels use planter ID #1; A4-B4 is the former ID.

Do not print a current pot label for Rehab-04. The probable silken pincushion cactus was removed on 2026-07-24 and remains only as a historical record.

August cactus labels

Mountain Crest arrivals — received 2026-08-28

The six permanent labels recorded after receipt on August 28, 2026 are: G1 Black Widow, G2 paper spine, G3 Royal Flush split rock, H1 Coconut Crystal, H2 Raindrops, and H3 Eve's needle. Their tracker IDs are P27, P23, P28, P24, P25, and P26, respectively. The tracker records 4-inch current pots, with weights and ruler dimensions recorded on 2026-08-29. The September 20 recalled medium is approximately 80% Molly's Succulent Mix / 20% added perlite for all six G/H pots. See the placement guide for their September 15 photo-matched positions on four wooden tables.

The exact product pages were inspected on 2026-08-26. All six list a 2.0-inch pot; that seller size and SKU belong in the collection record, not necessarily on the small visible label.

Suggested first strips:

G1 | BLACK WIDOW CHIN CACTUS
Gymnocalycium mihanovichii f. variegata

G2 | PAPER SPINE CACTUS
Tephrocactus articulatus var. papyracanthus

G3 | ROYAL FLUSH SPLIT ROCK
Pleiospilos nelii 'Royal Flush'

H1 | COCONUT CRYSTAL
Sempervivum Colorockz 'Coconut Crystal'

H2 | RAINDROPS ECHEVERIA
Echeveria 'Raindrops'

H3 | EVE'S NEEDLE CACTUS
Austrocylindropuntia subulata

Kiwi aeonium and money tree labels

These two individually potted plants use numbered IDs rather than the E/F cactus series. The money tree is #3 and the Kiwi aeonium is #4.

Suggested two-strip text:

#3 | MONEY TREE
Pachira sp. | WORKING: P. glabra

NATIVE: SE + S BRAZIL
DESC: 1868 | WARN: NOT CACTUS-DRY

#4 | KIWI AEONIUM
Aeonium haworthii 'Dream Color'

NATIVE SPECIES: TENERIFE
DESC: 1841 | WARN: VARIEGATED / SCORCH

September Home Depot succulent labels

These permanent labels were assigned on 2026-09-02. The raised leaf tubercles support the probable identification on #5. Label #6 identifies the whole shared planter; its component names belong in the collection record.

Suggested two-strip text:

#5 | TUBERCULATE TIGER JAWS
PROB. Faucaria tuberculosa

NATIVE: CAPE PROVINCES, SOUTH AFRICA
DESC: 1926 | WARN: AVOID PROLONGED WET ROOTS

#6 | TINY MIXED SUCCULENT PLANTER
MIXED TAXA / COMPONENT IDS PROVISIONAL

ORIGIN: HORTICULTURAL RETAIL MIX
WARN: TRACK + WATER AS ONE POT

September 20 Carlson's Greenhouses labels

These labels identify the two houseplants purchased at Carlson's Greenhouses on September 20, 2026. Their cultivar names follow the photographed nursery labels.

#7 | PEPEROMIA BICOLOR
Peperomia obtusifolia 'Obtipan Bicolor'

#8 | TRICOLOR OYSTER PLANT
Tradescantia spathacea 'Tricolor'

Both plants were purchased in six-inch nursery pots. Separate eight-inch Amazon Basics pots and a living-room display are planned; labels #7 and #8 stay with the plants through repotting. See their profiles for the last recorded placement and planned light trial.

September 21 Lithops and split-rock labels

These labels follow #7 and #8. The September 23 repots put the Lithops together in one shared pot and the split rock in a separate pot, each at setup 2. Photographs show four Lithops heads; their root connections remain unresolved.

Keep one physical #9 label for the shared Lithops pot. The component records Succulent-15A — probable L. lesliei and Succulent-15B — probable L. salicola describe the tan/brown and grey/green groups. Both share P35 with aggregate Succulent-15; the A/B suffixes are profile identifiers, not new pot labels.

Suggested strips:

#9 | LITHOPS SHARED PLANTER
Probable L. lesliei (tan/brown) + L. salicola (grey/green)
CHECK EVERY HEAD BEFORE WATERING

#10 | SPLIT ROCK
Pleiospilos nelii | NURSERY-LABEL SPECIES
CULTIVAR NOT RECORDED

Native-origin wording is southern Africa for the Lithops genus and South Africa's Cape Provinces for P. nelii. Kew dates the current L. lesliei combination to 1922 (earlier name 1912), L. salicola to 1936, and P. nelii to 1930. The component profiles give the proposed Lithops species ranges.

The Altman Plants tags read “Stone Faces / Lithops spp.” and “Split Rock / Pleiospilos nelii,” with no cultivar supplied. Both Lithops nursery pots and the split rock were purchased at Home Depot, Howell, Michigan, on September 21, 2026. The tags list 2.5-inch pots; the owner described them as 2.25 inches.

September 23 repot photographs show #9 / P35 in the D'vine Dev Blush Mauve pot and #10 / P36 in the Thirtypot speckled-brown pot. Seller-selected sizes are 4.3 and 4.5 inches; the repot ledger records 4.2 in round and 4 in round, respectively.

Archived label allocations

The archived purchase research has no active pot labels.

Identification and origin research outcome

• Kew supports the wild ranges and publication years in these tables, including 1839 for golden torch and Madagascar for copper spoons.
• NC State Extension confirms 'Ming Thing' as the monstrose cultivar name for Cereus forbesii. No reliable breeder, nursery-origin, or release year was found.
• Current retail records confirm Indigo Wave as an Altman Reserve Myrtillocactus trade selection. Sellers often call it crested or f. cristata, but no reliable breeder or release record was found.
• Current retail records confirm Dragon's Egg as an Altman Plants Euphorbia trade name. They do not publish its parentage, so the E. obesa-type-hybrid identification stays probable.
• SANBI confirms that Portulacaria afra 'Aurea' is a cultivated yellow form. The collection plant has no cultivar label, so color alone is not enough to assign that name.
• The echeveria, silver teaspoons, blue torch, and golden torch still need flowers or stronger diagnostic photos for a species-level confirmation.
• The money-tree tag records Pachira and LiveTrends; its working species is P. glabra.

Other information worth recording

Acquisition details still missing

Acquisition sources and dates are recorded for every active label above. Only the historical, removed Rehab-04 record still lacks an acquisition source and date.

Keep an order date and a received date as separate facts. They answer different questions and should not be silently substituted for one another.

The requested display fields plus the warning are enough for the visible labels. Other useful information belongs in the care notes or on a replaceable label under the pot:

1. Acquisition date and source — add when a receipt or order history can establish it; do not guess.
2. Last repotted date — useful under the pot or in a care log.
3. Full inventory ID — keep it in the collection records; the short permanent ID is intentionally the only ID printed on the visible label.

Do not put a fixed watering interval or “next watering” date on a permanent label. Drying time changes with season, light, plant size, and pot position. Record actual watering and repotting events separately.

Source notes

Native ranges and publication years follow the linked collection profiles and their botanical references, principally Kew Plants of the World Online and IPNI. Safety wording for Kalanchoe follows the ASPCA plant record; the Euphorbia warning follows the Royal Horticultural Society.

Important date conventions:

• The red-spined rainbow form was published at varietal rank in 1982 and moved to the accepted subspecies rank in 1997.
• Gymnocalycium mihanovichii was published under Echinocactus in 1905 and transferred to Gymnocalycium in 1922.
• Portulacaria afra was published under Crassula in 1762; the current replacement name dates to 1787.
• Peter MacOwan collected Euphorbia obesa in 1897, but its formal botanical publication dates to 1903.