What are the succulent plants of Crassulaceae?

Succulent plants have been welcomed by many people, and the number of farmers is increasing year by year. There are many varieties of succulent plants, the Sedum family is divided into many genera, each has its own characteristics, the following editor will introduce the characteristics of several common Sedum family genera.

Characteristics of several common genera and species of succulent plant Sedum

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. 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.

3. 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.

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. 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.

Raising some succulent plants indoors often has many advantages, the indoor air will become more and more fresh, and the whole will look much more beautiful. In the above, the editor has shared with you six kinds of succulent plants belonging to the family crassulaceae, each of which has its own characteristics, and you can choose according to your own preferences.

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