Graptosedum, Sedum 'Vera Higgins'

This is the first and only plant I have ever rescued. I found it on clearance at the local grocery store for $1. I figured I was having...Read More such good luck with succulents lately I would give this pathetic plant a home. Three years later it is THRIVING to the point I had to give it a trim this year. I love it!!

I had a hard time identifying this plant, mostly because the first few photos on this page made the plant look so much different than it ...Read Moredoes in my yard, or anywhere here in outdoors southern California. Then I realized that that was the problem. Lots of plants look different outdoors than they do indoors, sometimes so different that it is hard to believe they are the same plants. Outdoors this is a short, triangular-leaved plant often with reddish to maroon leaves, while in indoor or more protected situations, this plant has longer, thinner and more pale turquoise leaves. The two hardly look alike at all.

Parentage believed to be Graptopetalum paraguayensis and Sedum stahlii. As older leaves fall off, the stem is soon covered with new growth.