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Succulents 2010
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Succulents are your key resource if you want to develop a ‘waterwise’ garden that is full of exciting forms and colours. Many succulents flower in winter and provide rich colour as groundcovers. Some succulents (for example Crassula multicava – ‘Fairy crassula’ – have very delicate, starry flowers.
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Adenium multiflorum
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Impala Lily
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1m, full sun, dry soil, white + red flowers, good container plant
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Bergeranthus scapiger
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Yellow Mesem
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Yellow-flowered clumping succulent, flowers open in afternoon
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Cotyledon orbiculata
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Grey Pig's Ears
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50cm, sun. Orange flowers, sunbirds. Sap heals warts.
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Cotyledon orbiculata
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Pig's Ears
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50cm, hot dry sunny areas, white flowers, dark attractive leaves.
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Cotyledon orbiculata var. dactylopsis
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Thin-leaved Pig's Ears
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50cm, sun, drought-resistant. Orange flowers, sunbirds. Sap heals warts.
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Crassula alba
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Red Crassula
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30cm, sun, stunning large dark red flowerheads
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Crassula ovata
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Kerky-Bush
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2m succulent shrub, sun, masses of pink/white flowers.
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Crassula perfoliata
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Crassula tetragona
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Mini Tree Crassula
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Bulb, spreading, shade. Pretty, orange flowers.
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Euphorbia clavarioides
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Lion's Spoor
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Flat to cushionlike with yellow flowers, full sun
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Euphorbia horrida
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Bristle Euphorbia
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1.5m, sun; attractive spiny, succulent shrub
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Faucaria tuberculosa
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Tiger's Jaws
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Small compact succulent with unusual toothed foliage and yellow flowers
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Gasteria croucheri
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Gasteria
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Aloe-like succulent. Attractive red-pink flowers are edible.
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Gasteria glomerata
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Cluster Gasteria
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Compact clumping succulent blue-green leaves,
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Gasteria sp.
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Gasteria
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Aloe-like succulent. Attractive red-pink flowers are edible.
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Glottiphyllum depressum
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Green Tongues
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Unusual low-growing succulent, large golden flowers
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Haworthia attenuata
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File-leaf Haworthia
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Clumping, succulent. Rockery/pot plant, sun.
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Haworthia cymbiformis
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Fat-leaf Haworthia
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Clumping succulent rosettes; good rockery or pot plant
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Haworthia fastigiata
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Miniature Haworthia
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Clumping, succulent. Rockery/pot plant, sun.
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Haworthia kingiana
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King's Haworthia
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Clumping, succulent. Rockery/pot plant, sun.
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Haworthia reinwardtii
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Reinwardt's Haworthia
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10c, sun-light shade, well-drained soil. Good for pots/rockery
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Haworthia sp.
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File-leaf Haworthia
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Clumping, succulent. Rockery/pot plant, sun.
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Kalanchoe brachyloba
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Sand Forest Kalanchoe
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2m, sun, sandy soil, yellow flowers
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Kalanchoe sexangularis
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Maroon-leaved Kalanchoe
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Lovely maroon succulent foliage and bright yellow flowers
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Kalanchoe thyrsiflora
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White Lady
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1m sun, scented flowers, attractive foliage
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Orbea lutea ssp. Lutea
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Yellow Carrion Flower
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Pachypodium bispinosum
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Eastern Cape Pachypodium
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1 m, full sun, large tuberous stem, pink flowers, container plant
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Pachypodium saundersii
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Kudu Lily
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1m, full sun, dry soil, large white flowers, good container plant
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Portulacaria afra
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Spekboom
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Shrub, sun. Holds soil. Pink flowers. Edible leaves.
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Sansevieria metallica
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Bushveld Tongue Plant
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Spreading drought-hardy, striking broad attractive leaves
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Sansevieria suffruticosa
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Interesting succulent, sun/semi, 0.5 m, beautiful pink orchid-like flowers
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Senecio aizoides
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Pencil-leaved Senecio
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Succulent low-growing bush, grey foliage, for dry banks.
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Senecio barbertonicus
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Succulent Bush Senecio
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1m, sun, dry sandy soil, yellow flowers, low-maintenance.
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Senecio crassulaefolius
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Grey-leaved Senecio
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Succulent shrublet, 50cm, sun, broadish grey pointed leaves
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Senecio haygarthii
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Haygarth's Senecio
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1m, shrubby, bicoloured leaves, profuse yellow flowers
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Stapelia gigantea
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Carrion Flower
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10cm, succulent ground cover for dry, sunny areas. Beige flowers.
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