multiceps—little Joshua tree—Unbelievable bonsai-like plant with trunk, branches, and tufts of needly dark-green leaves like the smallest conifer imaginable.

pachyphyllum—jelly beans—Fat, juicy, berry-like leaves clustering close to the branching stems; yellow flowers in spring.

rubrotinctum (guatemalense)—Christmas cheer—Thick layers of small, green, drumstick-shaped leaves turning holiday red in full sun; yellow flowers.

stahli—coral beads, Boston beans—Faintly hairy, beady, reddish leaves strung closely together on branching stems; yellow flowers in summer and fall.

Titanopsis Aizoaceae

Stone-mimicking succulents with thickly clustered leaves lavishly spotted with white, wart-like tubercles, and short-lived daisy flowers in fall or winter.

calcarea—jewel plant—Lustrous gray-green leaves sparkling with white spots, gleaming gold flowers. Leaf rosette only two inches in any direction.

schwantesi—Even smaller cluster of blue-gray, liver-spotted leaves, lemon-yellow flowers.

Trichodiadema densum Aizoaceae Desert Rose

Picture a bunch of tiny, smooth green pickles, each tipped with a triple crown of ridiculously long, bristly, white hairs. Now, smother this leaf colony under two-inch red daisy flowers. A really outlandish plant!