Cotyledon
Adenium obesum
A shrubby succulent genus with vast differences
in appearance. Multiple leaf shapes and textures,
some with a variegated edge.
DESERT ROSE
A tropical shrub known for its longevity and
resistance to dry conditions. Thick short branches
arranged in spirals around stout trunk, leathery
leaves form clusters at ends of branches.
Bell shaped blooms appear year round.
Color: Color:
Pink, red, white, or yellow
blooming hybrids available
Aeonium
Crassula
Striking group whose succulent leaves are
predominately V-shaped, forming rosettes
at end of stems.
Color:
A group differing greatly in size, shape and color.
Upright and trailing forms may have triangular,
thick, flat, or lance leaves.
Yellow bloom, green, pink, red,
purple, black or variegated foliage
Color: Agave
A group valued for amazing diversity
in the rosettes.
Color:
Green, blue, gray, or yellow
to white variegated foliage
Aloe
GOLDEN BARREL CACTUS
Round, spiky plants can grow
to thirty-six inches in diameter.
Orange, white, blush blooms.
Green, blue, pink, orange,
red and near black foliage
Color:
Cephalocereus senilis
Ranging from low growing succulents to large
non-succulent shrubs and cacti. Bearing flattened
leaves, thick cactus-like heavilyridged stems,
branching columns or dense masses of branching
stems. Many have spines along ridges or stems
and may be tinged with pink.
Green plant with white overcoat
Color:
BARREL CACTUS
Covered with recurving spines in yellow or
red, some have a depressed globular form,
others become cylindrical over time.
MONSTROSE APPLE CACTUS
Fast growing, heavily branching
stems of this cacti to fifteen feet.
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White bloom, blue-gray foliage
Color:
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Yellow, red, or orange blooms,
green, blue, or mottled foliage
Ferocactus
Cereus repandus
Color: Green plant with yellow spikes
Euphorbia
OLD MAN CACTUS
A columnar plant with white hair-like spines.
Color:
Red, orange, yellow, apricot,
or pink blooms. Green, gray,
blue, pink, red, or yellow foliage
Echinocactus grusonii
Waxy leaved, may be toothed, in an array
of shapes and ranging in size from miniature
to large fourty foot tree.
Color:
White, pink, or red blooms.
Green, grey, red, or spotted foliage
Echevaria
Bold structured plants. Wide ranging
leaves in width, color and texture some
bearing spines on margins and tips.
Color:
Green or blue foliage, with
variegated or edged accents
Full Sun
Part Sun/Part Shade
Shade
N
Native
Violet, yellow, or red blooms,
blue or green foliage
NE
Native New England
Mammillaria elongata cristata
Color:
Color:
A low growing plant whose leaves range from
plump, flattened, triangular to arching. Most
form rosettes and a few are low shrub like.
White or pink blooms, silver-gray,
pink, to waxy-green foliage
Gymnocalycium
Interesting cacti which includes the popular
and colorful grafted ‘Moon Cactus’.
Color:
White, pink, wine, chartreuse,
or yellow blooms. Green, blue,
gray, or purple foliage
BRAIN CACTUS
Forms undulating fanned stems
covered in dense spines.
Green plant with gold or
copper-orange spines
Opuntia
PRICKLY PEAR
Flattened stems known as pads or ears
are dotted with small tufts of glochids
in gold, cinnamon, copper or white.
Color:
Pink, yellow, magenta or red
blooms. Green, lime, blue or
gray foliage
Haworthia
Pachypodium lamerei
Thick fleshy leaves some flattened may
have deep veins, some with fine toothed
margins and tips, or be covered in white
hairs. White dots or striped markings add
striking appearance.
MADAGASCAR PALM
Most common member of genus, this is
a group of spine bearing trees and shrubs
with pachycaul trunks. Spine covered stem
with leaves mainly at top.
Color:
Color:
White blooms, deep, bright and
pale green foliage
Subtropical vine with either smooth
or contorted leaves.
White, pink, yellow, orange,
red, or green blooms. Green,
variegated cream and pink
or mottled foliage
Kalanchoe
Large group with considerable choices in color,
leaves and form. May have irregular lobes,
toothed margins and fine hairs, or flat smooth
leaves. Some develop pink hue or vivid red in sun.
Color:
Pink, orange, or crimson blooms.
Bright green, blue-green, silver-gray,
pink, flecked, or red-edged foliage
Lithops
LIVING STONES
A tiny succulent with myriad distinguished shapes,
patterns and overlays.
Color:
White bloom with green foliage
Pedilanthus
Hoya
Color:
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Graptopetalum
Yellow or white blooms.
Tan, brown, gray, green, reddish
brown, or purplish foliage
DEVIL’S BACKBONE
Succulent zig-zag ribbed stems give
a striking appearance to this plant.
Color:
Coral pink or carmine bloom.
Green, variegated white, or pink
blush in cool weather foliage
Portulacaria
ELEPHANT BUSH
A small genus of one species with various
forms. Most are upright with red stems, or
prostrate with variegated leaves. Twisted
shape with age.
Color:
Pink bloom, green or variegated
white foliage
Rhipsalis
An epiphytic cactus that forms pendulous
segmented stems, either slender pencil
like or flattened.
Color:
Green, lime, blue, gray foliage.
White, pink, chartreuse, red,
orange or yellow bloom
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A large group with variance in height, color
and shape. May be matt-forming dense
ground covers, mounds, or upright shrubs.
Color:
Green, silver, gray, yellow,
or variegated foliage
Senecio
Genus of succulents which have cylindrical,
flat, or round leaves forming a dense
matt, cascading mound, or in some
cases a shrub form.
Color:
White, yellow, red, or purple bloom,
silver, blue, green, purple foliage
SUCCULENTS & CACTI
Sedum