Pachyphytum bracteosum

[John in Andalucia]

I love this little succulent, but I just feel like snapping leaves off to cherish them! Does anyone have a larger, established plant? I'm interested to know how rampant they grow, and how to best take cuttings..

[fastfeat]

Damn, I've gotten pretty rusty on my Crassulaceae... Maybe a Graptopetalum species?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&...ved=0CBIQsAQwAA

Most are native to the desert SW and Mexico. Well-behaved, probably best tucked around rocks, etc. or a small-scale ground cover where regular weeding won't be needed.

[John in Andalucia]

Damn, I've gotten pretty rusty on my Crassulaceae... Maybe a Graptopetalum species?

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&...ved=0CBIQsAQwAA

Most are native to the desert SW and Mexico. Well-behaved, probably best tucked around rocks, etc. or a small-scale ground cover where regular weeding won't be needed.

Thanks for the ID Ken. Looking online, I hear that the two are often mistaken, and that it is the flowers that set them apart. I only recently posted this photo on another forum where I was asking for an ID. How to you tell them apart in a photo such as mine?

Useful link

[fastfeat]

John--

I can't say how to distinguish them without flowers, though I'm sure an expert in Crassulaceae (like many people here who can differentiate Dypsis seedlings with only two strap leaves...) could tell easily. I'm not one of those people.

Actually, my first plant was a jade plant (Crassula argentea) in a 2" pot (for 49 cents, from Lakewood Nursery in Cypress, CA). Gotta love Crassulaceae. If that tough little jade plant had died instead of thrived, I'd have probably been in a totally different field and developed other interests.

Thanks for the link.

[Eric in Orlando]

Graptopetalum paraguayense, Ghost Plant grows well here in our well drained sandy soil. Also makes a good container plant. Despite its name its native to Tamaulipas, Mexico.