Twenty-five per cent of southern African flora is succulent in nature,
and a remarkable forty per cent of the world's succulent plants occur in
South Africa. The book will highlight the diversity of succulents that
occur in the region with special emphasis on the larger groups -mesems
(vygies) and aloes. The book covers approximately 250 individual
species, focusing on the most common and most interesting, and each
entry features a photograph and distribution map.