The illegal trade in succulents is on the rise The Succulent Karoo Biome in South Africa is the world's only hot arid biodiversity hotspot. An area of 116,000km², the Succulent Karoo straddles ...

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 ...

The popular Conophytum, Lithops and Tylecodon are part of the group of rare and aesthetically unique succulents which are now being illegally traded all over the world. Since 2019, over 1 million ...

The Botanical Gardens have a very large specialised collection of succulent plant species with approximately 2000 species, 800 of which are cacti. All of them originate from all continents and the ...

Some conos are so hyperendemic that poachers can wipe out the entire population of one species in just a couple of visits.

About 16% (1 589 species) of the world’s estimated 10 000 succulent species occur in the Succulent Karoo Biome This content is restricted to subscribers only. Our commitment at the Mail ...

For desperate people in South Africa, where the economy took a severe knock during Covid, this was a boon. By the end of 2021, conservationists had confiscated more than 300,000 succulents ...

Expand your succulent collection indoors or outdoors ... hence the plant’s common names. Native to South Africa, the paddle plant can be grown outdoors in USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 10-12 ...