Unusual Succulent With enough care and perseverance, succulents can be nurtured into almost any shape or form. This one looks like a Bonsai tree, complete with its tiny hill.
One high-profile case saw a South Korean national, dubbed the "world's most notorious succulent thief", arrested in Cape Town with 60,000 rare Conophytum succulents, some hundreds of years old.
Since 2019, over 1 million succulent plants from 650 species unique to South Africa have been illegally harvested in South Africa. As social scientists who have extensively researched conservation ...