Succulent in Black and White
by Kelly Hazel
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Succulent in Black and White
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Kelly Hazel
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These were a favorite plant of my mother's. They are incredibly easy to grow, and hard to kill (though I've managed to kill a few with my not-so-green thumbs). I think fondly of my mother and her cacti and succulent collection anytime I see these little plants.
Hen and chicks (also known as hen-and-chickens, or hen-and-biddies in the American South) is a common name for a group of small succulent plants belonging to the flowering plant family Crassulaceae, native to Europe and northern Africa. They grow close to the ground with leaves formed around each other in a rosette, and propagating by offsets. The "hen" is the main plant, and the "chicks" are the offspring, which start as tiny buds on the main plant and soon sprout their own roots, taking up residence close to the mother plant.
Hen and chicks is also the popular name of a strain of opium poppy, Papaver somniferum, in which the seed head is surrounded by clusters of smaller heads, and is the common name of Chlorophytum comosum from South Africa.
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August 2nd, 2014
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