Plant of the Month – Page 3

Mini-Show Succulent March 2024: Dudleya, Cotyledon

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.

Crest and monstose are mutations of the cellular structure.

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.

A genus of cacti from the dry coastal deserts, particularly the Atacama Desert, of northern Chile.