The attractive green leaves are thick and fleshy with maroon spots extending to a point with a soft tip. This cold hardy succulent occupies an unusual niche: growing in poor shallow sandstone based soils in open woods and on sunny rock cliffs that dry out too quickly for most other plants to colonize.
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In the wild, the plants are often 20-30 feet across. Leaves are an attractive bluish green with a sandpapery texture. It is planted in full sun in clay soil with no extra irrigation. It survived -16 degrees F and a week of single digit highs in February, 2021.