Succulents

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Succulents
Succulents
Crassulaceae
There are over 30 genera in
the Crassulaceae that are
considered leaf succulents.
Common genera include:
Aeonium
Crassula
Echeveria
Kalanchoe
Pachyphytum
Sedum
Sempervivens
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Succulents
Crassulaceae - Aeonium
Aeonium comes from the Greek for immortal.
They are native to north Africa and Canary
Islands. They form rosettes of succulent
leaves on the tips of fleshy stems.
Aeonium arboreum
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Crassulaceae - Aeonium
Aeonium are grown for their colorful leaves as well as their flowers.
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Crassulaceae - Crassula
Crassula have succulent stems and leaves
and most are native to South Africa.
They produce star-shaped flowers.
Crassula deceptor
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Jade plant (Crassula ovata)
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Crassulaceae - Echeveria
Echeveria are compact plants with tight
rosettes of succulent leaves. They are native
from Mexico to northern South America.
Echeveria umbricata
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Echeveria agavoides
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Crassulaceae - Echeveria
Flowers are held above the foliage
often on curved, scorpiod racemes.
Echeveria elegans
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Crassulaceae - Echeveria
There is a large variety of Echeveria leaf colors, textures and patterns.
Assorted Echeveria
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Echeveria ‘Marjorie Pogue II’
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Crassulaceae - Kalanchoe
Kalanchoe are succulent plants native to
arid areas. They produce tubular, bell or
urn-shaped flowers in terminal clusters.
Kalanchoe
marmarota
Kalanchoe daigremontiana
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Crassulaceae - Kalanchoe
Kalanchoe blossfeldiana is the popular
commercial, seasonal pot plant.
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Crassulaceae - Kalanchoe
The mother-of-thousands plants that
produce plantlets along the leaf margins
were formerly in the Bryophyllum genus but
have been moved to Kalanchoe. These
plantlets detach and become new plants.
Kalanchoe delagoense
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Kalanchoe crenatodaigremontianum
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Crassulaceae - Pachyphytum
Pachyphytum is native to Mexico
and has rounded succulent leaves.
It is closely related to Echeveria
and is very similar in flower.
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Pachyphytum oviferum
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Crassulaceae - Sedum
Stone crops (Sedum) are mostly native to
dry mountain regions of the Northern
Hemisphere. Many are winter hardy.
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Crassulaceae - Sedum
Stone crops have excellent floral displays
of star-shaped flowers.
Donkey’s tail sedum
Sedum acre
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(Sedum morganianum)
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Crassulaceae - Sempervivens
Commonly called hens and chicks or house
leeks, Sempervivens forms dense mats of low
growing succulent rosettes. They are mainly
native to European and Asian mountains.
Individual rosettes die after flowering,
but are replaced by offshoots.
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