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2. Cactus and Succulent Society of America - Wikipedia

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   The CSSA was founded in 1929 in Los Angeles County, at Pasadena, California, and has grown to encompass over 80 affiliated clubs and thousands of members worldwide.The primary purpose of the society is to enjoy succulent (water-storing) plants through horticulture, travel and scientific discovery, with a particular concern for habitat preservation and conservation issues in deserts worldwide.

3. Sempervivum - Wikipedia

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   Sempervivum (/ s ɛ m p ə ˈ v aɪ v əm / [1] [2]) is a genus of about 40 species of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae, commonly known as houseleeks.Other common names include liveforever (the source of the taxonomical designation Sempervivum, literally "always/forever alive") and hen and chicks, a name shared with plants of other genera as well.

4. Hen and chicks - Wikipedia

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   Jovibarba globifera (syn. Sempervivum globiferum) showing larger mother plants ("hens") and smaller, globe-shaped offsets ("chicks", "globi") Sempervivum tectorum (common houseleek) Close-up of blooms. Hen and chicks (also known as hen-and-chickens, or hen-widdies in the southern United States) is a common name for a group of small succulent ...

5. John Jacob Lavranos - Wikipedia

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   John Lavranos in his garden in Loulé, Portugal On the road down from the Mait Escarpment north of Erigavo, Somalia, 1969 Lavrania cactiformis. John Jacob Lavranos (29 March 1926, in Corfu – 1 February 2018, in Portugal) was a Greek/South African insurance broker and botanist, with a special interest in succulents.

6. Kalanchoe pinnata - Wikipedia

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   Kalanchoe pinnata, commonly known as cathedral bells, air plant, life plant, miracle leaf, [2] Goethe plant, [3] and love bush, [4] is a succulent plant native to Madagascar.It is a popular houseplant and has become naturalized in tropical and subtropical areas.

7. Pachypodium - Wikipedia

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   Only plants with special adaptations to exposure and extreme drought can survive, let alone thrive, on these exposed geological habitats. Pachypodium root in cleft, fissures, and crevices of those rocky formations. The non-succulent roots penetrate deeply into the accumulated soil, mineral, and humus in these crevices. Moisture is able to seep ...