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thought you might like this little ditty from Dirt du jour
June 4, 2009
Silly succulent names
As if succulents aren’t confusing enough. We know what we like, do we need to know what they’re called?
I do know that at the top of this pot is Euphorbia tirucalli ‘Sticks on Fire’ (you have to ask for red or you’ll wind up with the all-green one), but I was completely stumped about the succulent spilling out below.
I came close to an identification searching for Sedums, but didn’t quite find what we’re looking at here. I got a little closer with the Echeveria clan.
But it turns out this bronzed beauty is a hybrid of the two - a Sedeveria. Whatever! Might as well call it a Wackyeptia cause I won’t remember it anyway, specially when they’re making up new plant names all the time.
Update from an alert reader: Sedum nussbaumerianum (Coppertone Stonecrop)
Love the succulents. It’s the names I can’t keep up with.
More about plants
I don’t know what it is, but I want one
The classic eucalyptus conundrum
Two ways to roll with tillandsia
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DAILY READ: Daily Mail - A 58 year-old Cornwall ornithologist spent a month in Norway looking for Snow Buntings then found one in her garden when she got back.
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