Plant in full sun in a well drain soil where it requires little irrigation. A nice ground cover that is a common sight in succulent collections and windowsill planters.

This plant comes from Sierra Madre del Sur in Oaxaca, Mexico. The name Sedum is derived from the Latin word 'sedere' meaning to "to sit" in refererence to the low-growing habit and the manner in which some species attach themselves to stones or walls and the specific epithet is from the Greek words 'pachys' meaning thick and 'phyton' meaning "plant" in reference to the thick leaves of this plant. Another common name for it is Jade Beads Plants < Sedum pachyphyllum It has long been in cultivation and is considered to one of the parents, with Sedum stahlii, of the even more common Jelly Bean Plant (AKA Pork and Beans), Sedum × rubrotinctum. It is a plant in the Pachysedum group of the genus, one of 22 subdivisions within the genus Sedum that the German botanist Alwin Berger created and that American botanist Robert Clausen expanded upon. This group includes more than 90 closely related tender succulent species from North America that appear to be more closely related to Echeveria, Pachyphytum and Graptopetalum than to plants in other sections in Sedum. Unlike these other Sedum that produce terminal inflorescences on the stem, plants in this group have lateral inflorescences. We grew this popular plant from 1991 until 2020. 

The information about Sedum pachyphyllum that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.