An Introduction to the Characteristics of Crassulaceae

I believe that many flower friends have raised succulent plants, and the succulent lineup is very strong, of which the most famous is Jingtianke. Sedum plants are distributed in most areas of the Northern Hemisphere, with a wide variety of species, about 35 genera and more than 1500 species, and 10 genera and more than 240 species in China. Crassulaceae plants are short, because they are fleshy and consume little water and fertilizer, so they are easy to plant and watch. So what are the characteristics of Sedum plants?

1. Tianjinzhang genus

Originally from South Africa and Namibia. Plants are mainly distributed in South Africa and Namibia. Perennial herbs with very short stems, short plants usually below 20CM, fleshy, fleshy leaves, often spotted or densely hairy, wavy edges, difficult flowering, fleshy leaves alternate, long-lived, often not easy to receive seeds.

2. Yinbo Brocade

Much branched, erect fleshy dwarf shrubs. Leaves opposite, Obovate, margin wavy, hairy or waxy, bell-shaped flowers, brightly colored. Flowering in spring and summer, cymose panicles, inflorescences about 45 cm high, florets tubular drooping, about 2.5 cm long, generally orange-yellow apex red.

3. Green lock dragon genus

Also known as fleshy leaf grass. Succulent subshrubs, 30 cm tall, stems slender and easily branched, stems and branches usually vertically upward. Leaf scales are generally triangular and arranged in 4-angled stems and branches, so close that people mistakenly think that there are only green 4-angled stems and branches without leaves, and the leaves are scattered when there is not enough light. Flowers grow in the axils of leaves and are very small. Yellow poplar is a common succulent plant and is easy to cultivate and propagate. At present, the varieties of green lock dragon on the market are not pure, and one of them, if green, is also called green lock dragon in many places. If the green branches are not only vertically upward, but also horizontally creeping, the leaves are arranged disorderly, sometimes 4-angled and sometimes not 4-angled.

4. Phellodendron

Shrubby, stems branched or unbranched. Is a perennial succulent herb. Xerophytes growing in dry rocky places. The leaves are succulent, but most of them are slightly thinner than those of the genus Liriodendron. The fleshy leaves are arranged into basal clusters at the top of the stem, showing rosette shape, the leaves are mostly blue or green, and the leaf margins and leaves are hairy. The raceme is tall and the whole plant dies after flowering.

5. Liriodendron L.

A dwarf rosette-shaped succulent plant with lotus-shaped leaves having plump and round leaves with erect stems and lateral scorpion-shaped Cymes and beautiful flowers. People often refer to all succulent plants with lotus-shaped leaves as stone lotus. Although they are all succulent plants of Sedum family, they are not necessarily the same genus. In particular, the following plants of the genera windmill and Andromeda are very similar to the genus Clematis, and it is sometimes difficult to distinguish them from their appearance. However, it can be distinguished from some of their characteristics, for example, the leaves of the genus Elaeagnus can produce new seedlings, while the leaves of the genus Andromeda do not. The petals of the flowers of the genus Clematis are partially connected near the receptacle, so the flowers cannot be fully opened, only in the shape of a bell, while the flowers of the genus windmill can be fully opened into a pentagonal star.

6. Trifolium L.

Compared with stone lotus, most of the leaves of windmill grass are slender, arranged in the shape of extended rosette, covered with white powder or bearded leaf tip, and the plant shape of this genus is very similar to that of stone lotus, but the flowers of this genus are not bottle-shaped flowers or bell-shaped flowers, but star-shaped flowers, petals waxed, some with red spots, flowers can be fully opened into five-pointed stars.

7. The genus Fairy Cup

There are about 45 species of the genus Euphorbia, many of which used to belong to the genus Euphorbia, which is a special genus of Sedum family. The fairy cup is succulent and succulent, the leaves are glabrous and grow at the base of the rosette. The shape of the leaves is generally between the genus Euphorbia and the genus Cypress, which is sometimes difficult to distinguish, and the color of the leaves usually ranges from green to gray. Pedicels erect sometimes up to 1 m tall, but inflorescences usually short, apical Cymes, bract leaves alternate. The petals and sepals are small, the petals overlap five at the base, the five pistils gather inside, and there are 10 stamens around them. It usually grows on rock walls, cliffs, or beside roads.

8. The genus Brassica

Also known as the genus lantern grass. Succulent herbs, subshrubs or shrubs. Leaves opposite, often clasping petiole or base of leaves, entire or dentate, or pinnately divided. Paniculate Cymes, bracts small, flowers many, flowers often erect, white, yellow or red; flowers 4-cardinal; sepals separated to base or ±connate, triangular or lanceolate, often shorter than Corolla tube; Corolla high-legged, petals connate into more or less 4-angled tube, tube not dilated, or base dilated into altar-shaped, distal attenuate, detached part short, base slightly narrowed Stamens 8, Adnate above or below the middle of Corolla tube, filaments of different length, some reaching the middle of Corolla lobes, usually very short; scales linear to semicircular; carpels erect, style long or short. Oysters have many seeds; seeds Terete.

9. Vasone

Perennial fleshy; leaves spirally folded into small rosettes, ±linear; flowers numerous, arranged in terminal, Terete racemes or; sepals 5, fleshy, about half of Corolla; petals 5, slightly connate at base, ridged; stamens 10, as long as petals, carpels 5, separated, with slender styles; leaf disk extending upward when flowering, usually dead after anthesis, continuing offspring by tillering buds at the base of the plant.

10. Pachyophyllum

All belong to only 10 species, perennial fleshy herbs, short stems erect, fleshy leaves alternate, arranged into an extended rosette, Obovate or fusiform, the surface is powdered. Scorpion-shaped Cymes, florets bell-shaped, red. The difference between this genus and Clematis is that there are a pair of small scales on the inside of each petal. The difference between Euphorbia and Clematis is that there are a pair of small scales on the inside of each petal.

11. Sedum

Herbs annual or perennial, rarely woody, glabrous or hairy at stem base, fleshy, erect or decumbent, sometimes tufted or mossy. Leaves various, opposite, alternate or whorled, entire or serrate, rarely linear. Inflorescences cymose or corymbose, axillary or terminal; flowers white, yellow, red, purple, colorful; often bisexual, sparsely reduced to unisexual; often unequal to 5 bases, rarely 4-9 bases; petals separated or basally connate; stamens usually twice as many as petals, opposite stamens Adnate to base or slightly above petals; scales entire or emarginate. Carpels separate, or connate at base, base broad, sessile, style short.

12. Evergreen grass

Similar to and most similar to the genus Phellodendron. Low fleshy herbs with numerous lanceolate leaves twisted into standard rosette perennial fleshy herbs; thick leaves mostly rosette whorled compact leaves often distributed with filamentous hairs or hairs; flower cymose panicles in red white yellow and green colors. A few species have filamentous hairs on their leaf tips, and more of them are beautiful red.

These are the characteristics of Sedum plants. Sedum plants have become the first choice of roof greening because of their short resistance to wind, no need for a lot of water and fertilizer, and resistance to pollution.

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