Please make sure JavaScript is enabled.

Before You Leave…

Download the GardenTags App today and join 100,000+ gardeners getting FREE plant identification, garden management and more!

no thanks

 
String Of Watermelons, String of Beads in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Curio Herreanus syn. Senecio Herreanus

 

String Of Watermelons, String of Beads

The Curio (formally Senecio ) genus includes annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, and climbers that are suitable for the garden or conservatory. Most species have fleshy, glabrous, pale gray green leaves, daisy-like flowers, often yellow. They are widely spread and some varieties are invasive, toxic and considered weeds!

Contributed by @succerforsucculents

 
plant Features
  • String Of Watermelons, String of Beads likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • String Of Watermelons, String of Beads likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

  • String Of Watermelons, String of Beads is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • String Of Watermelons, String of Beads likes free draining and fertile

    Free draining and fertile

 
plant information

Common name

String Of Watermelons, String of Beads

Latin name

Curio Herreanus syn. Senecio Herreanus

type

Succulent

family

Asteraceae

ph

5.0 - 7.5 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    String Of Watermelons, String of Beads likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Frost

    String Of Watermelons, String of Beads is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Soil

    String Of Watermelons, String of Beads likes free draining and fertile

    Free draining and fertile

  • Water

    String Of Watermelons, String of Beads likes occasional watering

    Occasional watering

Plant & bloom calendar

  •  
    Best time to plant

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown String Of Watermelons, String of Beads is 0.50meters x 0.50meters 0.50 M 0.50 M

Curio Herreanus syn. Senecio Herreanus

The Curio (formally Senecio ) genus includes annual or perennial herbs, shrubs, and climbers that are suitable for the garden or conservatory. Most species have fleshy, glabrous, pale gray green leaves, daisy-like flowers, often yellow. They are widely spread and some varieties are invasive, toxic and considered weeds!


Planting

From Early Spring TO Early Spring

Plant in full sun to light shade and give little to no irrigation but with occasional summer irrigation will hold the leaves on the stems which otherwise fall off. Though often listed for frost free gardens this plant has proven stem hardy to 25° F during our January 2007 freeze. Makes an interesting and wild plant in the garden or in a large pot.

 
Subscribe to GardenTags Premium to get personalised planting tasks and more for your entire plant collection
 
Gardeners who are growing this plant