Succulent Plant Identification

tall succulent with honey suckle looking flowers at top  I have many of these. I have a 6ft. tall thin succulent with long thin leaves up the base. At the top there is reddish honey suckle flowers.


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Can anyone identify this plant?  What is the name of this Succulent cactus. Does anyone know how to trim it?



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Can you help identify this succulent?  Shaped like a cone with thin spines


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Boy, it's a good thing you sent a picture - I recognize this one, as it's one of ...

Very strange looking succulent plants  I have just discovered two different succulents in my backyard. I extracted and planted them, and both are doing great so far:

1) The tiny one, looks ...

large leaves with black pattern  This plant has very large leaves (14-18 inches)at full maturity. Each mature leaf also has a dark brown/black pattern. Thanks for helping!


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is it poisonous?  Its stem starts out green and as it grows gets thicker and turns a tanish grey. Its leaves are teardrop shaped and about a 1/4in thick, green, porous, waxy,...

Very dense long-stemmed plant with thiny heart-shaped leaves  This plant grows quickly. The heart shaped leaves are 1/4-1/2 inch across. The 12-15 inch stems grow all through each other and make repotting tedious....

School Project   Here's some snapshots from our terrarium. After a little browsing around your site, I'm reasonably confident that these are echeveria maybe a pachyveria....

Micro flowers  I found 4 or 5 similar plants on the banks of a reservoir in Spain (2 are shown in the photo with magnified inset). The mm ruler shows how small they are....

A little plant I bought?  tiny round leaves, fernlike long stems, pale green, pinkish brown stems, rubbery leaves


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Rosette of leaves at the bottom, single stem with weeping tree like limbs  I love this plant and lost the name! This plant has rounded rosette of leaves at the base. The leaves are green with a purple tiger stripe. A single stem ...

My roommate moved to Seattle, and left her plant to my care..  But I can't care for it if I don't know what it is! It is small, light green with oval leaves which point toward the end. They are completely smooth....

Fuchsia colored non-stop flowers  I got this plant at a Master Gardeners Plant sale two years ago. They did not know the name of the plant, but I bought it anyway because the flower was ...

Hanging vine-like succulent   This is a hanging vine-like plant that I believe to be a succulent. The vines are about 4 feet long with small (1 inch) cigar shaped "leaves".

Ever ...

Alien Fingers!  Hey! I've always just called this plant the alien finger plant because it grows in Y-shapes that look like knobby green fingers. Any ideas? It loves it'...

It has a thick stem, leaves that are not thick, leaves are a bit fuzzy....  Would love to know what this is, can't seem to find a photo of it anywhere, thanks so very much! It has rosette like growth seen in other types of succulents,...

labeled as "succulent"  Purchased at Home Depot, labeled as "succulent"

I need to know what it is to make sure it's safe to cats.


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indoors...outside houseplant  This succulent plant has about 1 inch cylindrical parts branching off each other with tiny hairs. It's now hanging down out of the pot and it has gotten ...

Cordate/Reniform leaf succulent  This cutting was taken from a coastal path in Charco del Palo, in Mala, on Lanzarote, Las Palmas (Canary Islands) (17 Jul 11). It has heart-shaped leaves ...

straplike waxy leaves on long vine-type growth.   I was given a plant with large strap-like waxy leaves and the plant has a long vine-type growth last fall and overwintered it in a garage located under ...

String beans on thin draping stem  Hi, I found this plant on the shelf of bathtowels at Kmart and it was in severe need of some water and a decent home. Because it was in such bad shape ...

Tree Succulent  I bought this succulent today and was wondering if you could help me identify what kind it is. It has several broad leaves at the base of the plant that ...

From a garden nursery...  Two years in a row this garden nursery has had this succulent and I really like it. It never flowered, just grew taller, but gave my planter an exotic ...

large wavy fleshy leaves  I am assuming this is a succulent. It's leaves are thick and fleshy. Long thin stalks have grown from the one leaf I was give (2ft tall)I'm assuming these ...

Unknown Succulent cutting  This little guy came from a large full plant of which I took a cutting out of interest as all it said was 'Succulent'.

He grows from a stem which is ...

red and green water bubbles plant?  I found this plant in Baja in the cacti forests. It's quite small, the bud being about the size of a nickel and firm to the touch although if you pressed ...

Small pink leaves and tiny elongated pink/red flowers  I found this plant while hiking and was able to bring it home and plant it and it is flourishing. It has leaves that start out small and pink and then ...

small succulent plants from Tucson  See attached photos.
They are grey-green with white spots.
They are quite prolific.
The leaves (?) develop both radially and vertically forming ...

Unknown succulent - variegated leaves  Variegated leaves, almost perfectly symmetrical pattern. Leaves seem to be shaped to channel water to the base of the plant.



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what is this succulent and is it poisonus?  It is very leafy and has pink almost plasticy looking tips growing out of the top of the flat part of the leaf. It has pointy edges but they are not sharp ...

Lost the tags!  We purchased several succulents last year, but the tags seem to have vanished! In the picture with the one that has the red flowers, I also need help ...

Succulent with Bell Like Flowers  Hi,

I have been trying to identify this plant for some months now, but haven't had any luck.

I've had it for three years, but last year was the first ...

Heart-Shaped Leaves  Please help me identify my plant!
It has thick dark green leaves that are heart-shaped.
two leaves branch out close to the stem at a time, one on opposite ...

Please identify my spaghetti head succulent  I have this plant as a houseplant. It is green with spaghetti-like foliage.

Small, light green & fuzzy  My succulent is about 3.75" tall on one stalk with 3 short branches. On some of the branches, there are small, roundish fuzzy nubs. The leaves have a ripply ...

What is this succulent plant?  Its a pale greenish color, my school gave them away, and even they had no idea what it was. Its waxy, some of the leaves have a pinkish or purple edge ...

unknown flowering succulent  I got this succulent when a neighbor moved. It flowers frequently and propagates easily.

The twenty cent succulent plant  I rescued this plant from where I work (a large box store) and gave it a new home.

The stem of this succulent plant is lime green with a bundle of stems ...

it looks like a string bean   This plant looks like string beans and almost like a pencil cactus - what is it?

Unlabeled Succulents  I'm sort of new to succulent plant ownership. I've had a well-established Aloe vera for a few months now that's doing very well, so I wanted to try expanding....

Small round "peas" on threadlike vines!  Just as above...small round "peas" on threadlike vines! What is this?? I love this little plant!

Tall, thin, palm-like, prehistoric looking succulent to ID please  I bought this plant and it was only a few inches tall. I didn't really know what I was doing it when I planted it in my terrarium. It has grown wildly ...

Fuzzy Succulent  It's fuzzy! Please identify.

Unknown Wavy Tipped Succulent  I recently bought a small succulent, potted in a roughly 4" by 3" wide pot. The pot contains two small plants that sprout trumpet shaped leaves, flatten,...

need a name  Its bright green and has a pink tone at the ends like that of what its planted in. It doesn't look like the donkeys tail.

Gasteria of some kind  @ 3" tall, dark green tall narrow fleshy leaves with pale green spots. Doesn't seem to like full sun, or lots of water.

unknown succulent please help  the plant is mostly green with tinges of purple. The leaves are round and thick. its almost 3 inches tall.

Well, It's Blue-green...  Sorry, I don't have a camera; I've been combing many online photos to no avail. This little guy is blue-green and each stem ends in a kind of elongated ...

Hoya carnosa 'Krinkle Kurl'  Indian rope plant, Hoya carnosa Krinkle Kurl

succulant that has new growth from tips of leaves and flowers  This succulant grows large, it has long oblong leaves that grow small plants from the tips, with little pink flowers underneath. It grows a flower cluster ...

Unlabeled Succulent  I bought a plant from Meijer Gardens and I would like to know a little about it. It seems to be colonial with thick leaves. This photo is one that was ...

Tree like with pink flowers  Pink flowers with tiny seed like things in them. The stem of the plant is tree like


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Hi Jillian, your plant looks like ...

Hanging Succulent with Orange foul smelling flower  It is a hanging succulent that grows downward, it has orange foul smelling flowers that smell like rotten feet.


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looks like English ivy seedling  Scallop shaped and waxy leaves with purple stem


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Hi Sarah, this plant looks really familiar, so I'm going out on a ...

spikey green foliage, tiny pink flowers  This flower came in a planter and someone wants to know if it can be transplanted outside. It almost looks like a Christmas cactus leaf. The flowers have ...

Daisy Lirriam ??  I need to know more of the plant.
Plant grows in very dry aria in South Africa. Almost desert.
Seed grows in 6 day's to this height and dries out very ...

it has flower like leaves that are fuzzy  it is extremely easy to root. I have no idea. it kind of looks like an elephant bush, but im sure its not.


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Looks like a goldfish plant.  The flowers are the same color as goldfish flowers, but a different shape as shown in the photo.


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There are several ...

house plant gift  small orange flowers in bunches leaves sort of like oak leaf shaped except the are smaller and succulent what is the name of a plant like this. I think ...

A Succulent Tree?  Mysterious Succulent Tree or Shrub

I Swear, it's an Alien!  Vertical-ish stalks bulbous in some areas. Has thick, rounded leaves (when it maintains leaves. It all seems to grow out of a central point. Having a hard ...

Spikey bromeliad-like plant with large red flowers  Small plant about 18 inches across with long dark green spikey leaves like a bromeliad producing spectacular pendulous red flowers


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Small, light green leaves   Small (2-3cm tall) with light green oval leaves. Each leaf has its own stem and they gather at the base of the plant (just before the roots)


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What is this?  This plant has red and green leave. The other one I was told that it was a birds nest


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Is this a Pencil Cactus?  I rescued this plant and some of his succulant friends from a big box store at the end of the season and have been unable to identify. It stands over ...

small spiky plant  Small, green, squishy, spiky & round.
Dries up hard, spiky & has seeds inside. Hangs off branches. It was in a flower bed at south Jefferson, nc.


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large, flat, white-greenish leaves  Grows in clumps, have many leaves that are flat with the color white and greenish. The flowers' stem stick up with the pink flowers drooping down.


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Succulent found in Carlsbad CA  Succulent found in Carlsbad, CA some years ago took a picture not a good one but...


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smaller, vertical plants, with fleshy-fuzzy heart shaped leaves.   smaller, vertical plants, with fleshy-fuzzy heart shaped leaves. grew larger with like a bean-stalky like growth upwards. grew fairly fast in the summer ...

Succulent w/spindly branches??  It's a taller succulent, and the branches are covered in a sort of bark. The leaves resemble a jade plant, but since this plant is taller and quite "branchy"...

unidentified plant  It has broad leaves and when it flowered it produced a single very long vertical stalk covered with small white flowers


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Small heart shaped thick leaves.  Purchased a house plant and seem to be killing it. Looking to identify it so I can take better care of it. Has heart shaped thick leaves on single stems....

Common groundcover with small pink leaves.  Hi. This is a common ground cover in Hobart, Tasmania which I've seen covering areas of many square metres.

I just think its adorable and I like ...

Unknown Jade-like hanging succulent  I picked this plant up at Wal-Mart. I've never seen it before but couldn't resist it. The only identification included was that it was a succulent. I ...

What is the name of this plant.  To whom it may concern,
I found this picture on the internet but no description was available. I would love to know at least the name, so I could google ...

we call it the "tongue plant"   Emerald green leaves that look like huge tongues (up to 12" long and 3" wide) emerge in a fan-like manner from the plant. My plant is over 40 years old ...

Sad, forgotten succulents  I found all these behind my moms shed and I have no idea how long they have been there. They don't get much sun, couple of hours in the late afternoon ...

Squat, 4 lobed dark green with white spots and central flower.  It's low to the ground, aBout as wide as it's tall. Symmetrical and formed from 4 lobes with sharp vertical edges.

It's covered with white spots and ...

Singular Spikes with White Lines, one long stem protruding from middle  Found this plant at a market for $2 and thought it looked nice. I'm curious to know what it is though...


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Tube-like fingers  I have a damaged plant, rescued from a balcony. I need to know what it is, so I can try and restore it. It is shriveled and squishy, so obviously had too ...

Is this a Sansevieria?  The person I bought is from said it is a member of the Lily family, but I took pictures of it to Kew Gardens and they suggested it could be a Sansevieria....

tree like with small leaves on the top  tree like plant , with some small leaves on the the top of the tree , and side of the tree


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Ten inches tall, broad leaf, looks like growths on the ends of the leafs.   Ten inches tall, broad leaf, looks like growths on the ends of the leafs. Please see photo's and help me save this beautiful plant.
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This is the mystery plant.... other than the photo unfortunately i can't say much about it....  Mystery succulent plant... help!!!


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Hi Rif, it looks similar to Sedum kamschaticum based on the arrangement of the ...

Succulent Plant Pictures Attached  Just bought yesterday in Orange county, california. Looks like little green balls. 2 pink blooms. the pot is a 3 inch.


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Roadside Greenhouse Succulent  I bought this at a roadside greenhouse in the Hudson Valley. This succulent has bright green leaves, small bright red flowers and a trailing habit. I ...

Very tall jade  When I first bought this jade, it had two tall pieces. As you can see from one of the pictures, I tried to trim (and propagate) the one stem, it was growing ...

Pleiospilos nelii   I purchased a split rock plant in a 2" last month.
it is now in bloom and just wonderful except I noticed that the outer 'stones' are shriveling up; is ...

Looks like a Jade Plant, but has fuzzy leaves  This doesn't appear to be any kind of parasite, but rather the natural texture of the leaves. It has the same shaped leaves and general characteristics ...

small leaves, ground cover type plant   Not sure if it is a sedum variety or not. planted in full sun, about 10 inches in circumference and only seems to flower on the ends. very low to the ground ...

I have no clue what this is or how to care for it.  The plant measures 13 cm wide and 10cm high, the spines are soft and fine.


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Hi Robert, what an odd looking little ...

please help identify my succulent  my girlfriend and i just bought this plant at our local nursery, and nobody working that day knew the name any way you could help? thanks!


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White leaves with green stripes  I picked up a plant at a grocery store that was only labeled as a succulent. It has a jade tree, along with this other plant which I can't find any information ...

2 random succulents from the local nursery.  I got these two little plants from the local nursery. Despite my inquiries about exactly what they were and what their care requirements were they successfully ...

Mystery Plant  Hi, we got this really unique mystery plant from our local garden nursery (they plant all the pots at our office) however, nobody seems to know what it ...

star like flower  It has thick spikes and a flower that opens into a star like shape. The edges of the stalks have round bumps on the edges.


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Small Yellow Flowers with 4 Petals...  My mother bought me a plant for my birthday that bloomed heartily in February-April in lower Michigan when it got full sun and lots of water.

The leaves ...

Small round whiskery plant  Small( about 2 1/2 inches), roundish, light green, "hairy" with long off white whiskers. Bought @ an OSH 2 days ago and noticing holes appearing on it'...

What kind of plant is this?  I have had this plant for 4 years and have had to move it several times because I often switched offices. Unfortunately the light was very different in ...

Red to green leaves  It grows from the top only. The leaves begin red and turn green. I was suggested that I water it by putting water in the leaves. Is this a succulent?
I ...

"HANGING PLANTS"  Is what the seller said ...
I do not know whether the last 2 will be classified as succulents at all, & sorry to ask You 5 questions at a time, but ...

bulbous leaves, bright green  I got this, & 4 others from a roadside seller (holidaying in the hilly areas).

I don't recognize it, & where I live is pretty much tropical (21° 13'...

What Am I?  I just purchased this succulent from a plant show. There was no information there about it. As you can see from the picture, there are multiple plants ...