Cactus and Succulent Society of New Zealand (CSSNZ) Inc.

Succulent Genera for the beginner


Easiest to Grow

  • Just about any, except the ones that are hard to grow!

Flowering

  • Ceropegia
  • Crassula and hybrids
  • Echeveria and hybrids
  • Hoya
  • Kalanchoe
  • Stapelia - interesting blow-fly pollinated

Architectural

  • Aeonium
  • Agave
  • Aloe
  • Dudleya
  • Echeveria
  • Euphorbia
  • Sansevieria
  • Sempervivum

Good in an Outdoor Garden

  • Agave
  • Aloe
  • Euphorbia

A Challenge

  • Conophytum
  • Lithops
  • Pachypodium