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Discover the names of the Best Hanging Succulents with pictures and get inspired to decorate your home and garden with these hanging beauties!
Here are some really beautiful pictures of hanging succulents to give you an idea of how you can have these plants in your home and garden in style too!
Best Hanging Succulents
1. Small cucumbers
Botanical name: Othonna capensis
This trailing succulent looks adorable in hanging planters with thin oval leaves on reddish-purple stems. Place it in a location where the plant will be exposed to direct sunlight for at least 4 hours.
2. Heart necklace
Botanical name: Ceropegia woodii
The Heart necklace is a beautiful evergreen trailing succulent with slender vines up to 12 inches long and delicate, heart-shaped leaves. For a beautiful display, you can grow it in hanging baskets.
3. Baby Sun Rose
Botanical name: Aptenia
Aptenias, also called heartleaf ice plant, are beautiful succulents with light green and white-edged leaves that bear white, pink and red flowers.
4. Pearl necklace
Botanical name: Curio rowleyanus
The hanging stems of this popular succulent with small green, pea-shaped leaves extend gracefully from the edges of hanging pots on your balcony.
5. Nickel chain
Botanical name: Dischidia nummularia
This climbing succulent has very small, round olive green to bronze leaves; It grows up to 2.5 to 3 meters long and is therefore ideal for hanging planters.
6. Donkey tail
Botanical name: Sedum morganianum
Sedum morganianum is a good choice for hanging baskets. It offers plump, grey-green fatty leaves on drooping stems.
7. Trailing Jade
Botanical name: Kleinia petraea
The fleshy, green, ovate, overlapping leaves blush a purple hue in winter. It is also a perfect choice for hanging planters.
8. Key sequence
Botanical name: Crassula perforata
Also known as necklace vine, this trailing succulent has pretty-looking, plump blue and light green leaves with pink edges.
9. Pearl necklace
Botanical name: Senecio rowleyanus
Perfect for hanging planters, this attractive cascading succulent has pearl-like, lush leaves on slender stems.
10. Banana string
Botanical name: Curio radicans
The fleshy, banana-shaped foliage on the hanging stems prefers direct sunlight, which is why you’ll want to grow them in hanging baskets on your balcony facing the sun.
11. Little Missy Sedum
Botanical name: Sedum ‘Little Missy’
These beautiful hanging plants display loose rosettes of oval to round gray-green leaves with pink-pale green edges.
October 12th Daphne
Botanical name: Sedum sieboldii
This pretty flowering succulent has blue-green foliage with deep pink edges and grows beautifully in hanging baskets.
13. Mezoo Trailing Red
Botanical name: Dorotheanthus bellidiformis
This succulent’s daisy-like flowers open in the sunlight, adding beautiful color to your hanging planters in spring. The succulent leaves are light green.
14. Flowering Kalanchoe
Botanical name: Kalanchoe blossfeldiana
The dark green, shell-shaped foliage and large drooping flowers dangle beautifully from the edges of hanging baskets.
15. Row of dolphins
Botanical name: Curio × peregrinus
Also known as the dolphin necklace, it features leaves shaped like small dolphins. Puffy flowers appear from May to June.
16. Elephant Bush
Botanical name: Portulacaria afra
White-green variegated leaves hang beautifully from hanging baskets and make for a lovely display. Grow them where they can enjoy plenty of indirect light.
17. Ruby necklace
Botanical name: Othonna capensis
The bright thin red-purple stems with contrasting light green plum leaves turn ruby red in optimal sunlight.
18. Calico kittens
Botanical name: Crassula pellucida subsp. marginalis ‘Variegata’
The colorful heart-shaped leaves in shades of rose-pink and cream-green on thin stems look cute in hanging baskets.
19. Rat tail cactus
Botanical name: Disocactus flagelliformis
This beautiful cactus has thick pendulous stems with 8-10 ribs and tiny, fuzzy-looking, red-yellow spines. It blooms in a red-pink hue.
20. Peanut cactus
Botanical name: Echinopsis chamaecereus
The finger-shaped, pale green stems of this branching cactus bloom in late spring and display broad orange-red flowers.
21. Monkey Tail
Botanical name: Hildewintera colademononis
The rope-like stems are covered in fine hairs, giving the plant an appearance similar to a monkey’s tail, hence the name.
22. Hindu rope plant
Botanical name: Hoya carnosa compacta
This epiphytic evergreen semi-succulent vine looks gorgeous in hanging baskets with deep green leaves.
23. Head of Medusa
Botanical name: Euphorbia caput-medusae
The gray-green, snake-like branches of this succulent are an ideal choice for hanging planters.
24. Senecio fishing hook
Botanical name: Senecio ‘Fishhook’
“Fish Hooks” showcases the fleshy, blue-headed, banana-shaped leaves. Since it stays small, you can also store it on tables and shelves!
25. Fishbone cactus
Botanical name: Epiphyllum anguliger
This epiphytic cactus has a very unique zigzag pattern that sets it apart from the other plants on this list.
26. Dancing Bone
Botanical name: Hatiora salicornioides
Also known as spice cactus, it is a popular hanging succulent that can be found in most homes. This decorative houseplant has deep green leaves.
27. Dutch pipe cactus
Botanical name: Epiphyllum oxypetalum
This robust epiphyte plant offers decorative flowers in winter. What makes it special is the thick, drooping stems with flowers at the ends.
28. Mistletoe cactus
Botanical name: Rhipsalis baccifera
This epiphytic, leafless succulent has long, stringy, green stems. Under the right growing conditions it becomes dense, making it perfect for hanging baskets.
29. Linearis Hoya
Botanical name: Hoya linearis
The fluffy, elongated stems give it a curtain-like appearance when planted in hanging baskets. Find a bright window and hang it there.
30. Tessa Kalanchoe
Botanical name: Kalanchoe ‘Tessa’
This attractive perennial succulent features green foliage and orange-red flowers. Make sure it gets plenty of sunlight.
31. Fertile Echeveria
Botanical name: Echeveria prolifica
This small succulent features a rosette of silver-green leaves that spread beautifully and looks attractive in hanging planters.
32. Zebra plant
Botanical name: Haworthiopsis fasciata
This popular succulent with zebra-like stripes on a green surface can be a great addition to hanging baskets.
33. Flower dust plant
Botanical name: Kalanchoe pumila
This dwarf succulent shrub has long toothed leaves covered in soft, white waxy hairs and contrasting pink flowers that make it even more beautiful.
34. Teardrop necklace
Botanical name: Senecio rowleyanus
This trailing-stemmed perennial succulent has small, round, green-colored leaves. It looks great in small hanging baskets.
35. Sweetheart Hoya
Botanical name: Hoya Kerrii
This climbing plant with heart-shaped green leaves and red and white flowers is ideal for hanging pots.
36. Snake Plant
Botanical name: Dracaena trifasciata
Varieties of dwarf snake plants can be grown in hanging baskets. It is really easy to care for and thrives best in indirect light.
37. Turtle string
Botanical name: Peperomia prostrata
This charming tortoise-patterned plant on round, fleshy, dark green leaves looks great dangling from hanging baskets.
38. Crown of thorns
Botanical name: Euphorbia milii
This woody succulent shrub offers bright green foliage and decorative bracts in a red-yellow hue.
39. Aloe Vera
Botanical name: Aloe barbadensis miller
Aloe Vera is an easy-to-grow succulent that doesn’t require any special requirements. Not only does it look beautiful in hanging baskets, but it also offers some medicinal benefits.
40. Panda Plant
Botanical name: Kalanchoe tomentosa
The sweet-looking, velvety leaves look like cat ears, hence the famous names pussy ears or donkey ears.
41. Prickly Pincushion Cactus
Botanical name: Mammillaria spinosissima
It forms a group of columnar or spherical stems of reddish-brown or yellow color. Funnel-shaped, bright pink flowers make it look more beautiful.
42. Colorful Caucasian stonecrops
Botanical name: Caucasian stonecrop ‘Variegatum’
This perennial succulent produces flat, rounded leaves with jagged edges in colors of green, red, or cream.
43. Cliff cotyledon
Botanical name: Cotyledon hangs
The Cliff Cotyledon is a stunning hanging succulent with bright and dense foliage and bell-shaped pinkish-red flowers.
44. Ghost plant
Botanical name: Graptopetalum paraguayense
The ghost plant is one of the best hanging succulent varieties with ashen, gray-green leaves that form the shape of a flower.
