Pachyphytum Compactum

Family

Crassulacee

Origin

Mexico

Environment

Pachyphytum compactum is an attractive succulent with short, stout stem up to 6 inches long, that often branch towards the base and hold rosettes with many cylindrical, up to 1.2 inches long, light green to grey-white leaves with heavy white veins and deep purple tips. The inflorescence is up to 1 foot tall. The flowers are pale yellow in the center and the rest of the flower is pinkish orange

Description

Pachyphytum oviferum is a prostrate succulent plant up to 4 inches tall and up to 12 inches wide with white stems bearing pale blue-green to bluish-purple rounded leaves in a rosette at the stems tips. The flowers, which appear in winter to early spring atop reddish 1 foot long stems, have red-orange petals surrounded by fleshy sepals the same color as the foliage

Landscape Use

Suitable for Container, Rock Garden & Xeriscaping