Information about Succulent plants

Succulent plants

Succulent plants are also known as fat plants or simple Succulents. Technically is water-retaining plants adapted to arid conditions. Succulents save water in their leaves, roots and/or stems.

How to identify them

You can identify these plants in the following ways.

(a)) to see if it has thick leaves or stem where it perhaps saving water.
(b)) feel down part of its leaves and if they are smooth and soft, its a succulent.
(c)), see If it looks like cacti or Aloe Vera (two common Succulents).

Succulent plants care

Here are some tips to take better care of your Succulents.

Temperature

Succulents does not break in colder temperatures. Protect these plants against frost and snow, which will kill them.

Light

Succulents to much sunlight. They prefer indirect light to directly, so give them bright, indirect light, filtered by either keep them indoors and near the window or if you grow them outdoors, grow them under the shadow of trees, as well as in the wild.

Water

You can not translate-water your these plants. Watering them twice or three times in a month would be good.

Fertilizer

Too much fertilizer can be worse than none at all. Use low nitrogen fertilizer on about ½ to ¼ the recommended dose. Succulents perform just as well without any fruitful if light, water and temperature are good for them, by using organic fertilizer is always ideal choice compared to synthetic them.

Some common Succulents

Here is a list of a few common succulent plants:

Aloe Vera
Jade plant
Ponytail Palm
Bitter Aloe
Miniature Pine trees
Medicine Aloe
Maltese Cross
All cactus species
Moonstones
Air plant
Cast Wax, Aloe
Mother Pearl plant