South Africa's succulents—small, fleshy, green plants sometimes shaped like roses or stars, and often found peeping out between rocks in dry areas—are sought after by an increasingly ...

Are you looking for succulents that will quickly grow and fill your yard or planter? We have 21 of the fastest-growing ...

According to Bruwer, there are parallel legal and illegal markets for succulents that at times overlap. The legal market, she says, supplies artificially propagated plants and derivatives, while the ...

Euphorbia trigona is easy to grow and fairly drought-tolerant, though it does require regular watering. The frequency of watering depends factors such as plant size and room temperature. In general, ...

For two decades, Foden, a specialist climate scientist at SANParks, South Africa’s national conservation ... sensitive landscape in place — succulent plants and the crusty layers that form ...

Global demand for Southern Africa’s unique succulent plants is fuelling an illegal trade that threatens them with extinction. Between 2019 and May 2024, more than 1.6 million illegally harvested ...