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Dudleya caespitosa
A beautiful low succulent growing on the cliffs above the ocean, Santa Cruz Island, Channel Islands. It receives much of it's moisture from the morning and evening fogs and mist (last picture). It was flowering while we were there in May. This plant is endemic to the coastline of Southern California. It is commonly called Sand Lettuce or Sea Lettuce.
Spotted on May 27, 2014
Submitted on Jun 28, 2014
9 Comments
Beautiful!
Gilma, that little succulent must also be an endemic species of the Island, but I have no idea which species. It wasn't in the Museum Garden either. There is another picture of it (but not a good close up) around the Seaside Daisy that was also in the same place as the Sand Lettuce.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/413...
I can never get enough of Succulent pictures, your pictures are great, thanks.
I was just curious about the green succulent ground cover in pictures #1 and #3... : )
Thank you Rosa, Mark and Gilma. I would love to spend a week on the Channel Islands. It is a fascinating place.
Gilma, I added 2 more pictures taken on the Island. The 4th picture has one open flower to compare to the open flowers in the second pictures.
Hi Gilma, the first and third pictures were taken on the Island. On the mainland where the Island Tour Company is housed (in Ventura, California), they have a small Museum Garden to display the plants that grow on the Channel Islands and they are all named. The second picture was taken in that garden because the flowers were open. On the Island, most of the flowers were still in a budding stage. The Museum Garden was a bit neglected and in that picture you can see dead plant material and the succulent leaves were not as healthy. I think the red present on the plants on the Island must be due to full sun exposure. What part did you want to see a close up? I can look back through my pictures. Lots were in the fog.
Lovely Succulent, LaurenZarate.
You were so lucky to see this beauty flowering. The succulent covering part of the grown, did you get a close up?. The second picture seems to be a different Succulent flower?
Superb array of colours.
Beautiful!