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Succulents

Low-maintenance desert dwellers and string-of-things.

Perfect for sunny windowsills and forgetful waterers. Succulents store water in their leaves, making them resilient, sculptural, and incredibly diverse.

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Adenium Arabicum Desert Rose

Adenium arabicum is what happens when a plant decides to store its drinking water in...

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Agave Attenuata Fox Tail Agave

Agave attenuata is the agave people buy when they want drama without consequences. It is...

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Aptenia Cordifolia Baby Sun Rose

Aptenia cordifolia, often sold under the perky nickname Baby Sun Rose, is a trailing succulent...

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Crassula Capitella Campfire

Crassula capitella ‘Campfire’ is the succulent equivalent of a reliable campfire story - simple, colorful,...

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Crassula Perforata String Of Buttons

Crassula perforata, sold almost everywhere under the cheerfully descriptive name String of Buttons, is a...

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Curio Radicans String Of Bananas

Curio radicans, commonly called String of Bananas, is a trailing succulent vine grown for its...

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Curio Rowleyanus String Of Pearls

Curio rowleyanus, better known as String of Pearls, is the plant that convinces people they...

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Delosperma Echinatum Pickle Plant

Delosperma echinatum, commonly sold as the pickle plant, is a compact succulent subshrub that looks...

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Dioscorea Elephantipes

Dioscorea elephantipes is the plant equivalent of a geological prank. What looks like a cracked...

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Echeveria Laui La Roseta

Echeveria laui ‘La Roseta’ is the succulent equivalent of a luxury dessert that politely asks...

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Echeveria Lilacina Ghost Echeveria

Echeveria lilacina, commonly sold as Ghost Echeveria, is a rosette-forming succulent that looks like a...

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Euphorbia Obesa

Euphorbia obesa, often sold as the Baseball Plant or, incorrectly, the Sea Urchin Cactus, is...

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Fenestraria Rhopalophylla Baby Toes

Fenestraria rhopalophylla looks like someone lost a handful of green jellybeans in a sandbox and...

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Ferocactus Latispinus

Ferocactus latispinus, commonly sold as the Devil’s Tongue barrel cactus, is not subtle and does...

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Greenovia Dodrantalis Mountain Rose

Greenovia dodrantalis, often sold under the common name Mountain Rose, is a rosette-forming succulent in...

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Kalanchoe Delagoensis Mother Of Millions

Kalanchoe delagoensis, commonly sold under the unsettlingly cheerful name Mother of Millions, is not a...

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Nepenthes Sp

Nepenthes, commonly sold under the vague but convenient label of tropical pitcher plant or monkey...

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Othonna Capensis String Of Rubies

Othonna capensis, commonly called String of Rubies, is a trailing succulent perennial grown for its...

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Peperomia Prostrata String Of Turtles

Peperomia prostrata, commonly sold as String of Turtles, is a trailing, epiphytic houseplant with small...

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Pinguicula Mexican Butterwort

Mexican butterwort, most commonly sold under the Pinguicula moranensis complex, is a small, tidy carnivorous...

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Rhipsalis Cereuscula Rice Cactus

Rhipsalis cereuscula is what happens when a cactus decides sand is overrated and trees look...

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Sedum Morganianum

Sedum morganianum, commonly sold as Burro’s Tail or Donkey’s Tail, is a trailing succulent that...

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Senecio Peregrinus

Senecio peregrinus, usually sold as String of Dolphins or Dolphin Necklace, is a trailing succulent...

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Succulents

Low-maintenance desert dwellers and string-of-things.

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Trachyandra Tortilis Ribbon Plant

Trachyandra tortilis, usually sold under the much looser nickname Ribbon Plant, is one of those...

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Xerosicyos Danguyi Silver Dollar Vine

Xerosicyos danguyi, usually sold as Silver Dollar Vine, looks like a stack of metallic coins...

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