Yes, yes, today I’m going to surprise you. Taking advantage of the fact that summer is practically around the corner and that both cacti and succulents are beginning to feel like at home, I am going to present you some plants that will not leave you indifferent. High temperatures and dryness in the environment are part of the climatic conditions of the place where they come from, and it is now that we see that the growing season has already begun.
But we are not going to talk about their care, but about something much more special that, surely, you are going to love it. I just tell you that any of them is perfect to have in a pot.
Dudley
Powdery dudleya
Did you think it was an Echeveria? The truth is that it is very easy to confuse them, since they are practically the same. Of the genre of Dudley there are above all two species that are less complicated to find, which are the D. brittonii and D. pulverulentwhich you can see in the image. They are originally from South America, and each one of them is strikingly beautiful.
Euphorbia
Euphorbia head-jellyfish
Our Euphorbia they are distributed by all the warm regions, especially of Africa and the American continent. Some grow as trees, others as shrubs, others as herbs… and others, less so, as succulents. One of the most surprising is the Euphorbia head-jellyfishoriginally from South Africa. Once it has reached adulthood, it can come to remind us of a jellyfish with its tentacles.
Haworthia
Haworthia truncata hybrid
Our Haworthia they are very strange plants, especially the Haworthia truncata. This species, along with the Lithops, is one of the preferred plants to make compositions.
echeveria
Echeveria runyonii ‘Topsy Turvy’
All of the genre echeveria They have that special something that makes us think that they are artificial flowers, but due to the strange shape of their leaves, without a doubt the E. runyonii »Topsy Turvy» it deserves to have a place in our yard.
Fenestrary
rhopalophylla fenestraria
We end up with a plant native to the Namibian desert, in Africa, called Fenestrary. It is considered a window plant, because just below the thin transparent layer on the surface of each “stem” (they are actually modified leaves), are the cells that are responsible for photosynthesis.
Well, what is your favorite?
