Adorable Most Beautiful and Colorful Succulents

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These most beautiful Succulents are low maintenance and can pretty up your gardens and container arrangements like no other plants.

1. Santa Rita Prickly Pear

Botanical Name: Opuntia “Santa Rita”

Color: Violet, Pinkish-Red

This upright, succulent plant has some lovely fleshy pads. This architectural plant is best grown in warm environments (USDA Zones 9-12).

2. Campfire Plant

Botanical Name: Crassula capitella

Color: Apple Green to Red

Grow it in plenty of sunshine, and it’ll show you why it’s known as “Campfire Plant.” It’s not cold-resistant, and you’re going to have to keep it indoors in the winters, in the cool climate.

3. Paddle Plant

Botanical Name: Kalanchoe luciae

Color: Pinkish Red

When grown in full sunlight and under mild heat, the paddle plant flushes with a nice red shade.

4. Sticks on Fire

Botanical Name: Euphorbia tirucalli

Color: Yellow to Red

Popularly known as “Pencil Cactus,” the sap of this family plant in Euphorbia is poisonous. For the best color, thrive it in full sun and waterless.

5. Blue Chalksticks

Botanical Name: Senecio serpens

Color: Blue

The blue-green foliage is easy to look after and grows upright to about a foot long. Being a drought-tolerant plant, you will only need to water it once formed in 3-4 weeks.

6. Purple Beauty

Botanical Name: Sempervivum tectorum var. Purple beauty

Color: Purple

The rosette of purple leaves makes this very plant incomparable when put in the sunlight outside. Overwintering is simple, as it is extremely frost-hardy.

7. Golden-Toothed Aloe

Botanical Name: Aloe x Nobilis

Color: Golden, Orange-Red

It is a rosette-forming succulent that multiplies very rapidly and makes a glorious display of red-tinted leaves. Its golden tooth is the most distinctive feature. 

8. Dragon’s Blood

Botanical Name: Phedimus spurius ‘Dragon’s Blood.’

Color: Red

This cold-tolerant stonecrop is grown as a cover for the ground. The leaves transform to an excellent bronze-red in late summer and then red in autumn. It would help if you grew up in hanging baskets, too.

9. Morning Light Echeveria

Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Morning Light’

Color: Dark Pink, Bluish Lavender

It’s a lovely hybrid variety with short stems and a rosette with a diameter of six inches. Orange-red flowers and their bluish-lavender leaves with pink edges make it a beautiful succulent.

10. Black Knight

Botanical Name: Echeveria affinis ‘Black Knight.’

Color: Black

There are not many succulents with such dark, shaded foliage. It works perfectly well in small containers and does not do well in cold and frost.

11. Wooly Senecio

Botanical Name: Senecio haworthii

Color: White

The distinctive characteristic is the snow-white leaves that are set apart from most other succulent ones. Hard to find, but worth it!

12. Moon Cactus

Botanical Name: Gymnocalycium mihanovichii

Color: Pink

The cacti normally involved in the graft are Gymnocalycium and the rootstock cactus, for instance, Hylocereus. 

13. Houseleek

Botanical Name: Sempervivum tectorum

Color: Green, Purple-Red Shade on Leaves

Often known as hens and chicks, it has a lovely green rosette of leaves with purple tips. Some species have shades of red on green leaves.

14. Blue Beaked Yucca

Botanical Name: Yucca Rostrata

Color: Blue

Commonly grown as an ornamental landscape plant, it’s pretty huge. The small, long leaves are mounted on the trunk and offer a tropical feel to any space.

15. Mangave ‘Macho Mocha.’

Botanical Name: Mangave ‘Macho Mocha’

Color: Purple

When matured, it grows as large as six feet and looks gorgeous with dense, fleshy, purple-gray-green leaves. It has purple spots all over it, and at the end of the leaves, the spots are so deep that the foliage appears to be purple.

16. Purple Heart

Botanical Name: Tradescantia pallida ‘Purpurea’

Color: Purple

If purple is your favorite, you’re sure to love this succulent. Even the flowers are purple and grow on robust stems. 

17. Zebra Plant

Botanical Name: Haworthiopsis attenuata

Color: Green and White

This stemless pocket-size succulent is known for its stunning white zebra-like stripes on deep green leaves. It’s easy to develop!

18. California Sunset

Botanical Name: Graptosedum ‘California Sunset’

Color: Pink-Orange

This succulent has Echeveria-like rosettes; the biggest attraction is the orange-pink-like color. Don’t grow it in the shade to make it look best. Take a look at these shade-tolerant succulents.

19. Blue Glow “Agave.”

Botanical Name: Agave attenuata x Agave ocahui

Color: Blue

It’s a cross between Agave Attenuate and Agave Ocahui. Similarly, it can grow up to 2 feet tall and wide and withstand cold temperatures down to 20 F. (-6 C).

20. Echeveria ‘Wine Red.’

Botanical Name: Echeveria agavoides cv. Wine Red

Color: Bright Red

Not just the tips, but the whole plant will turn the color of this beautiful red wine. It’s a scarce variety!

21. Red Aloe

Botanical Name: Aloe cameronii Hemsl.

Color: Copper Red

This dramatic aloe species are turning to excellent copper red in the summer sun. It is native to Zimbabwe and Malawi.

22. Golden Barrel Cactus

Botanical Name: Echinocactus grusonii

Color: Golden

Golden barrel cactus is an elegant succulent, covered with pointed spines that appear like a web from a distance. It’s the ideal choice in your succulent set; keep it out of the reach of children and pets. Its mature size is up to three feet.

23. Baby’s Necklace

Botanical Name: Crassula ‘Baby’s Necklace’

Color: Rose Blush

The name and shape are distinctive, with red-edged leaves stacked like beads on a child’s necklace. Please protect it from fungal diseases by never allowing it to sit in the water.

24. Sunset Jade

Botanical Name: Crassula ovata ‘Sunset.’

Color: Yellow

Also known as Golden Jade Tree, it turns golden yellow with red margins in full light. The dense, woody, succulent branches make it a perfect example of bonsai.

25. Coppertone Stonecrop

Botanical Name: Sedum nussbaumerianum

Color: Gold

Like all sedums, this one, once developed, thrives on neglect and drought, and heat tolerance. In full-light, the leaves are copper-gold, while in partial shade, the color is yellowish-green.

26. Black Beauty ‘Aeonium.’

Botanical Name: Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’

Color: Dark Brown or Burgundy, Black

When it grows in full sun, the burgundy and green leaves of this exotic succulent become almost black. It can grow up to 4-5 feet in height.

27. Chroma

Botanical Name: Echeveria ‘Chroma’

Color: Dark Pink, Maroon

The foliage is glossy and fleshy, varying from deep red to maroon in color. It’s an elegant addition to any home decor environment and looks even more pleasant in the winter.

28. Graptosedum ‘Bronze.’

Botanical Name: Graptosedum ‘Bronze’

Color: Brown

Although the yellow flowers are inconspicuous, the display is stolen by its lovely reddish-bronze shaded foliage. Any leaf falling off the plant can be quickly used to propagate a new plant. 

29. Living Stones

Botanical Name: Lithops

Color: Marbled

It is a stemless succulent, with leaves fused and resembling a polished gray or beige marble with green, purple, lilac, and blue shades. Large yellowish flowers contrast the leaves that emerge from the crack between them.

30. Queen Victoria Agave

Botanical Name: Agave victoriae-reginae

Color: Deep Green

Sculptured geometrical leaves with white stripes render it an unrivaled architectural herb. It is also known as the Royal Agave.

31. Lavender Scallops

Botanical Name: Bryophyllum Fedtschenkoi

Color: Lavender, Pink

Also known as Kalanchoe Stonecrop, its stems are rooted anywhere they meet the earth. Go for flowering varieties if you’re looking for long-lasting and vibrant flowers.

32. Copper Pinwheel

Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Sunburst’

Color: Variegated

It’s a succulent branching that grows on stalks that can reach a height of 18 inches. Rosette of variegated leaves, green and yellow, looks charming and does well in bright shade to full light.

33. Red Edge Echeveria

Botanical Name: Echeveria subrigida ‘Fire and Ice’

Color: Red

Four to six hours of direct sunlight every day, and you’re going to have the best color display possible. Perfect to have a focal point in a small, succulent container garden.

34. Red Pagoda

Botanical Name: Crassula capitella “Red Pagoda”

Color: Light Green, Crimson

The Crassula gene has some excellent colorful succulents, and one of them is this eye-catching beauty. It thrives well in full light, but it doesn’t matter to any shade.

Beautiful Flowering Succulents

Blossoming succulents are the best highlights of your spring garden, offering different shapes, colors, and sizes. 

We admire the succulents for their surreal geometric forms and unusual colors, but little did we know that desert plants grow some beautiful flowers.

Here is our list of the most beautiful blooming succulents.

Christmas Cactus

Christmas Cactus is one of the few succulents that blossoms a few times a year. With proper conditions and care, can produce flowers from October to March.

The flowers come in various colors: red, white, and sometimes yellow, making them a favorite gift piece for your loved ones.

Pincushion cactus

If the best possible sunlight and water demands are fulfilled, you may be rewarded with charming pink flowers on your Pincushion cactus in spring.

Hold off on watering until several weeks into spring to increase the probability of blooming. Can use certain forms of fertilizer to improve success rates.

Superbum

This succulent, scientifically known as Graptopetalum superbum, is one of the easiest plants to care for.

Superbum blooms in the spring, producing white or yellow star-like flowers with red stamens.

The contrast between the pale purple leaves and the yellow blooms makes it stand out as an exotic groundcover in your landscape.

Crassula Springtime

Crassula Spring Time blooms mostly between late winter and early spring. This petite succulent herald the spring’s arrival with delicate pink clusters and a delicious fragrance that attracts butterflies and bees.

Echeveria Doris Taylor

This succulent astounds us not only with its fuzzy rosette but also with its one-of-a-kind flowers.

That showy bright orange or yellow flowers can appear on the contented specimen along a long flower stalk during the spring.

Echeveria Black Knight

Source: worldofsucculents.com

The deep black color of Echeveria Black Knight captivates the majority of us. Their blooms, on the other hand, are a perfect highlight of nature’s beauty.

Black Knight grows deep burgundy red star-like flowers wrapped within a black sepal and usually blooms in late summer or fall.

Ice plant

Pink Ice Plant, also known as Corpuscularia lehmannii, is a common succulent with thick leaves that layer on top of one another in opposing pairs to form a tower. When Spring arrives, their bright yellow, daisy-like flowers bloom at the top of the house.

Peanut Cactus

Peanut Cactus is a small, low-growing cactus native to Argentina’s mountains. The common name “peanut cactus” refers to the long stems that resemble a fuzzy peanuts pile. They grow large reddish-orange star-like flowers in early summer, covering most of the cactus clump.

Painted Lady Echeveria

These succulents are known for their delicate elegance, with silvery blue and green leaves forming a thick rosette. They produce a long stalk of yellow-pink flowers in the spring. The pastel color scheme of the leaves and flowers adds an exotic touch to any landscape, heralding the arrival of Spring.

Donkey Tail

Donkey tail sedum is a low-maintenance succulent. Its fleshy teardrop-shaped leaves and up to 60-cm long trailing stems make it a top choice for many gardeners. During the season, look for clusters of tiny red flowers concealed under its bulbous leaves. Blooming occurs only in mature Donkey Tail plants and can take up to 4-6 years of development.

Ruby Necklace

Othonna capensis ‘Ruby Necklace’ is a trailing succulent with bean-like foliage that grows along a long stem that grows rapidly. Their leaves are usually green, but when exposed to direct sunlight, they may turn ruby red. They produce these bright yellow flowers all year long.

String of pearls

Senecio Rowleanus is an attractive succulent that is often grown in hanging baskets. They have long trailing stems and pearl-like green leaves, gaining the name “string of pearls.” This plant’s blooming period begins in early summer, producing tiny white flowers with a heavy cinnamon fragrance.

We hope you enjoyed our selection of the most beautiful succulents for the season. We will update this list regularly. Let us know which one is your favorite or if you’ve owned any of them in the comments. 

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