Schwantesia borcherdsii is a small succulent with fleshy, smooth, bluish-green leaves with a flat upper surface, a keeled lower surface…
Browsing: Aizoaceae
Aizoaceae is a a very large family of dicotyledonous flowering plants containing 135 genera and about 1900 species, largely endemic to Southern Africa. A few species are found in Australia and the Pacific area. They are commonly known as stone plants or carpet weeds. Species that resemble stones or pebbles are sometimes called Mesembs. Several species are known as "ice plants" because of the glistening globular bladder cells covering their stems, fruit and leaves.
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Lapidaria margaretae (Karoo Rose) is a beautiful dwarf succulent that forms rosettes of 2 to 4 pairs of thick fleshy leaves. It can form…
Lithops aucampiae (Living Stones) is a small succulent with brown-red bodies that consist of two fleshy leaves with darker markings at the …
Conophytum wettsteinii (Cone Plants) is a small succulent that has bodies with a broad top and a narrowed base. The bodies seem circular …
Conophytum pellucidum is a dwarf succulent with cylindrical bodies of two fused, purplish brown to greyish brown leaves with a depressed …
Conophytum burgeri (Burger's Onion) is a dwarf succulent with two fleshy leaves fussed in an onion-shaped body with a tiny fissure at the …
Trichodiadema densum (Miniature Desert Rose) is not a cactus but could be mistaken for one. Its leaves end in a circle of stiff hairs …
Aloinopsis schooneesii (Living Stone) is a tuberous succulent that forms dense mats of small, clustered rosettes of plump, dark blue-green …
Mesembryanthemum cordifolium 'Variegatum' (Baby Sun Rose), formerly known as Aptenia cordifolia 'Variegata', is a lovely mat-forming …
Lithops ruschiorum (Bushman's Buttocks) is a stemless succulent that usually grows in a clump of 5 to 6 bodies or occasionally forms …