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Types of Succulent plants

Cooperii

Aloe cooperi is a very hardy, stemless Aloe with long, narrow, yellow-green leaves arranged in a fan shape and distinctively keeled with white spots beneath. It has spikes of apricot or yellow coloured, tubular flowers from December to March.

  • PLANT NAME: Cooperii
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indiginous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT: 40-50cm
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Late Summer
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: Pink, Cream, Yellow
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun
  • WATER NEEDS: Low
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 23cm

Coralliform euphorbia

“Coralliform” (coral like) Euphorbia native to Madagascar with smooth, spineless and flattened stems. The branches tend to grow upright at the tips, but eventually spread out forming a broad shrub and eventually may become a tree.

  • PLANT NAME: Coralliform euphorbia
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Exotic
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi-shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Low
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm

Cotyledon falanganii

Cotyledon flanaganii, is a sparsely branched succulent shrub with spreading branches and green to gray leaves arranged in whorls of 3.

  • PLANT NAME: Cotyledon falanganii
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indiginous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT: 0.4-1m
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun
  • WATER NEEDS: Low
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm

Cotyledon orbiculata

A fast growing succulent that forms a low shrub. The leaves are thick, round and light green to grey in colour. The flowers form clumps of bell-like tubes growing from a central node.

  • PLANT NAME: Cotyledon orbiculata
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Round-leafed navel-wort, Pig's ears
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indiginous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT: 1-1.5m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Late Summer, Autumn, Winter
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: Red, Yellow, Orange
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi-shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Low
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Clay, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 23cm

Crassula ovata

A large well-branched, compact, rounded, evergreen shrub with glossy, dark grey-green, oval, succulent leaves and rounded heads of pink flowers in winter-spring. The stem is stout and gnarled and gives the impression of great age, and its branches are also short and stubby but well-proportioned.

  • PLANT NAME: Crassula ovata
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Kerky bush, Jade plant
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Plakkies
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indiginous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT: 1-3m
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Winter
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: Pink
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun → semi-shade
  • WATER NEEDS: Low
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Clay, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm, 4 pack

Lampranthus

This vygie is a neatly rounded, erect, small shrub. The leaves are paired, free or slightly fused at the base, and dark green. The most attractive aspect of the plant is its unbelievably bright flowers.

  • PLANT NAME: Lampranthus
  • COMMON ENGLISH NAME: Dewplant
  • COMMON AFRIKAANS NAME: Vygie
  • INDIGENOUS/ EXOTIC: Indiginous
  • EVERGREEN/ DECIDUOUS: Evergreen
  • HEIGHT & WIDTH: 30-40cm x 50cm
  • TIME OF FLOWER: Summer
  • COLOUR OF FLOWER: Yellow, Orange, Red, Purple, Pink
  • LIGHT PREFERENCE: Full sun
  • WATER NEEDS: Low
  • SOIL REQUIREMENTS: Sandy, Clay, Loam
  • AVAILABLE SIZES: 15cm