Plant of the Month – Page 2

Mini-Show Succulent June 2024: Pachypodium

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

An easy to grow cactus from Argentina, Southeastern Bolivia, Western Paraguay, Uruguay, and the Southernmost part of Brazil.

Four genera that are all now Eriosyce, from Chile and Peru.

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

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

Small to medium cacti from USA and Mexico, often with brilliant flowers.

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

Five cactus genera from the Southern USA and Northern Mexico.

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

Mammillaria is one of the larger genera in the Cactus family, and one of the most variable, but only some have hooked spines.