Pachyphytum oviferum

🌿 Plant Name

Pachyphytum oviferum
Common names: Moonstones, Sugar Almond Plant

🪴 Description

Pachyphytum oviferum is a slow-growing succulent known for its plump, oval to egg-shaped leaves that look like smooth stones.
The leaves are blue-grey to silvery green and covered with a thick powdery coating (farina), which protects the plant from sun and dehydration.
Leaves grow upright at first, forming a compact cluster, and older plants may trail slightly with age.

🌞 Care Guide

☀️ Light

• Bright light to gentle direct sun

• 3–5 hours of morning sun is ideal

• Too little light → stretching

• Strong afternoon sun → leaf burn

💧 Watering

• Use the soak and dry method

• Water only when soil is completely dry

• Summer: every 7–10 days

• Winter: every 2–3 weeks
  ⚠️ Avoid frequent watering — Pachyphytum is very rot-prone

🌱 Soil

• Extremely well-draining soil

• Best mix: cactus soil + extra perlite / pumice / coarse sand

🌼 Fertilizer

• Optional

• Feed once a month in spring–summer with diluted succulent fertilizer

• No feeding in winter

🪴 Pot

• Always use a pot with drainage holes

• Terracotta pots are recommended

🌸 Flowering

• Blooms in late winter to spring

• Produces small bell-shaped pink or orange flowers on thin stalks

🌿 Propagation

• Very easy by leaf propagation

• Also by stem cuttings