Succulents call the plants with juicy leaves or stalks growing mainly on bright sun in droughty places. Their distinctive feature - opportunity to reserve water.
Similar lines of succulents are explained by dwelling conditions. Succulents also occur among many other higher plants, as a rule, they are united there in sorts. It is possible to carry spurge family, agaves, peperomia, cissus, groundsel to those and anakampseros. Exterior of euphorbias is very different, and succulents are about 450 of its types. Among aroidny there is succulent - it is zamiakulkas, among pineappele family - dikkiya, at vinogradovy it is cissus quadrangular.
All succulent plants are divided into 5 major families.
Cactaceous
The most known succulent plants. They are steady and unpretentious, and at due care for them very beautifully blossom. All succulents which keep moisture in reinforced ridge trunk belong to cacti. Leaves most often are absent as were reduced in prickles, but at some types the small rare leaves are present.
Milkweed family
This family is known stapeliya which have very beautiful motley flowers, in the diameter the having 6 cm, with disgusting smell.
Aizoonovye
Such supersucculents as the litopsa living in small flat dishes, or live stones which have various colourings belong to this family and at good conditions of keeping regularly blossom. Besides sort of live stones carry also the agriroderma, plants dwarfs growing at big groups and konofituma, plants dwarfs which size seldom reaches 5-10 cm, usually making several mm. Here the aloinopsisa forming big groups dwarfish succulents with long and reinforced root belong.
Asfodelovye
The known aloe, all its numerous versions belongs to asfodelovy all. In room floriculture some grades are appreciated curative qualities, other are most often poisonous. The haworthia belongs to sort of asfodelevy too. To distinguish it from aloe sometimes not easy, but strong indication are the rough leaves covered with warty outgrowths. Probably also the gasteriya looks, it has shortened trunk on which leaves are located dvuryadno. Leaves rigid also have white spots.
Houseleek family
The family has received the name from crassula, or the krassula called in use monetary tree. But except these plants, aikhrizona, sedums, kalanchoe (house doctor), echeverias (stone rose, stone flower), aeoniums and pakhifituma enter sort of houseleek family. Among all these families and childbirth the separate niche needs to be allocated for carefully cultivated mutations and chimeras - kristatny and variyegatny forms, the removed hybrids and garden forms.