Mini-Show Succulent August 2024: Stapeliads (Stapelia, Huernia, Orbea, etc.) Stapeliads are mainly from Southern Africa. They are called carrion flowers because of the smell they emit to attract flies for pollination. Read More ...
Mini-Show Succulent July 2024: Kalanchoe Many from Madagascar, some from Africa and Asia in or near India. Read More ...
Mini-Show Succulent June 2024: Pachypodium The name means "Thick Foot". Native to only Southern Africa and Madagascar. Read More ...
Mini-Show Succulent May 2024: Crassula The varied genus Crassula contains around 200 species and many cultivars. Read More ...
Mini-Show Succulent March 2024: Dudleya, Cotyledon Dudleya from North America, Cotyledon from South Africa to Arabia. Read More ...
Mini-Show Succulent February 2024: Gasteria and hybrids Gasteria is a genus of succulent plants, native to South Africa (and the far south-west corner of Namibia). Read More ...
Mini-Show Succulent January 2024: Caudiciform (Beaucarnia, Calibanus, Dioscorea, Fockea, etc.) Caudiciform plants, also known as ‘Fat Plants’, are a grouping of many totally unrelated plants all having a fat, short, swollen stem-trunk. Read More ...
Mini-Show Succulent November 2023: Crested and Monstrose Crest and monstose are mutations of the cellular structure. Read More ...
Mini-Show Succulent October 2023: Graptopetalum, Graptoveria, Pachyveria These 3 genera produce rosettes with thick leaves. Graptopetalum is native to Mexico and Arizona. Graptoveria and Pachyveria are nursery hybrids. Read More ...
Mini-Show Succulent September 2023: Adenium, Adenia These 2 caudiciform genera, are unrelated except that they are both from Africa and Southeast Asia and are named after the country Aden. Read More ...