9 Plants that Look like Rocks and Stones

If you want green specimens that stand out in your garden with their unique shapes and colors, check out these Plants that Look like Rocks and Stones!

Botanical Name: Pleiospilos nelii

Also known as living rock cactus, split rock, cleft stone or mimicry plant, this flowering succulent from South Africa displays two to four gray-green stone-like foliage divided by a cleft or crevice down the center.

Botanical Name: Astrophytum spp.

This slow-growing cactus features white flocking on the green surface and yellow, red, or orange flowers that emerge from the center.

Botanical Name: Euphorbia obesa

This perennial succulent grows slowly in bulbous shape and V-shaped markings. Young baseball plants have round shapes but take elongated and cylindrical shapes with maturity.

Botanical Name: Conophytum

Conophytum has a compact growth habit and spreads horizontally up to 2 feet wide, showing a dense cluster of stone or rock-like succulent leaves.

Botanical Name: Pachyphytum Oviferum

This clump-forming succulent showcases plump, pale blue-green to blue-purple foliage arranged in a rosette at the tips of short stems.

Botanical Name: Lithops

Popular as ‘living stones,’ they closely resemble the rocks surrounding them, so animals don’t eat them. Living in adverse conditions, they adapt well and develop the ability to store water in leaves and pairs of small underground stems.

Botanical Name: Haworthia cooperi var. truncata

This stemless succulent looks like small shining stones; it offsets quickly and displays a soft, fleshy, transparent rosette of round-tipped and spherical blue-green translucent patterns.

Botanical Name: Haworthia truncate var. Maughanii

This succulent has thick truncated leaves arranged in a dome-shaped tuft or rosette. Leaves are