The name means "Thick Foot". Native to only Southern Africa and Madagascar.

The varied genus Crassula contains around 200 species and many cultivars.

Dudleya from North America, Cotyledon from South Africa to Arabia.

Gasteria is a genus of succulent plants, native to South Africa (and the far south-west corner of Namibia).

Caudiciform plants, also known as ‘Fat Plants’, are a grouping of many totally unrelated plants all having a fat, short, swollen stem-trunk.

Crest and monstose are mutations of the cellular structure.

These 3 genera produce rosettes with thick leaves. Graptopetalum is native to Mexico and Arizona. Graptoveria and Pachyveria are nursery hybrids.

These 2 caudiciform genera, are unrelated except that they are both from Africa and Southeast Asia and are named after the country Aden.

These 4 genera, in the Crassulaceae family, include plants from many parts of the world.

The Bromeliads, like Cactaceae and Agavaceae are a New World family.