Succulent Encyclopedia

A houseleek whose small rosettes have leaf tips linked by white threads like cobwebs. Native to European mountains and extremely cold-hardy.

A Sedum with pointed, fleshy leaves crowded at the stem tips that glow yellow-orange to copper in full sun. Fragrant white starry flowers appear in spring.

A hard-leaved Haworthia with broad, dark brownish-green triangular leaves ridged crosswise with white tubercles like a file, forming a pinwheel-like rosette.

A Mexican Sedum with thick, pointed leaves crowded at the stem tips. In good sun the leaf edges turn red or orange, and white starry flowers appear in spring.

A Haworthia whose triangular leaves end in flat, smooth windows crossed by a net of white-flecked veins. Larger and usually greener than its relative H. emelyae.

A Haworthia whose short cylindrical leaves end in round, sliced-off windows arranged in a rosette. Windows range from clear to opaque or veined, and many selections exist.

A Haworthia with glossy, thick triangular leaves in a star-shaped rosette; the upper half bends back into a flat, translucent window with vertical stripes.

A Haworthia whose flat-topped leaves look as if sliced off, arranged in two ranks like a fan. The cut-looking tips are translucent windows with line markings.

A Sedum with pale green, powdery, cylindrical leaves clustered like beans around the stems. The leaf tips blush red with dryness, sun and winter cold.