Succulents becoming more popular amid dry spellBy Wu Jun-feng and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writerSucculents are becoming more popular due to their resilience to drought and relatively little need for water amid an unusually dry year, an industry representative said. A woman arranges a display of potted succulents at a garden center in Tainan on Monday. Photo: Wu Chun-feng, Taipei TimesThere are thousands of succulent varieties, with the most common belonging to the cactus family, Huang said. Other common succulents include aloe, the pencil tree, Lithops or pebble plants, and dogbanes that have flowers, but no thorns, Huang added. Aside from their medicinal uses as balms or ointments, succulents can also clean the air and absorb radiation, he said.

Source: Taipei Times October 16, 2020 15:56 UTC