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Succulents 2011
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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 flanaganii (tomentosa)
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Velvet-leaf Pig's Ears
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50cm, sun, hairy toothed leaves, dormant in summer,good container plant
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Cotyledon orbiculata
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Pig's Ears
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50cm, sun, drought-resistant. Orange flowers, sunbirds. Sap heals warts.
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Cotyledon orbiculata
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Pointed-leaf Pig's Ears
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50cm, sun, drought-resistant. Orange flowers, sunbirds. Sap heals warts.
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Cotyledon orbiculata variety
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Pointed-leaf 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 arborescens
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Grey Kerky-bush
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2m succulent shrub, sun, masses of pink/white flowers.
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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 tetragona
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Mini Tree Crassula
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1m, hot dry sunny areas, white flowers, dark attractive leaves.
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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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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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Glottiphyllum regium
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Glottiphyllum
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Clumping succulent with showy large yellow 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 kingiana.
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King's Haworthia
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Clumping, succulent. Rockery/pot plant, sun.
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Haworthia sp.
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Haworthia
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Clumping, succulent. Rockery/pot plant, sun.
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Haworthia sp.
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Amathithibala
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Clumping, succulent. Rockery/pot plant, sun.
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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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Huernia hystrix
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Porcupine Huernia
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12 cm, clumping succulent with unusual star-shaped flowers
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Kalanchoe crenata
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Woolly Kalanchoe
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1m, shade/semi, large orange flowers
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Kalanchoe 'Ngeli'
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Ngele Kalanchoe
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Shade, 30cm, glossy leaves, 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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Kleinia fulgens
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Coral Senecio
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Grey-leaved succulent with orange flowers
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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 'aurea'
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Golden Spekboom
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Low spreading succulent shrublet with gold foliage
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Sansevieria guineense
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Bushveld Tongue Plant
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Bushveld Tongue Plant
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Sansevieria suffruticosa
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Spiky Sansevieria
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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 crassulaefolius
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Grey-leaved Senecio
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30 cm, silver-leaved succulent
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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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Stapelia leendertziae
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Purple Carrion Flower
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10cm, succulent ground cover for dry, sunny areas. Maroon flowers.
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