The Illustrated Dictionary of Gardening

Every genus a Victorian gardener could grow — Abelia to Zygopetalum across four volumes, with each plant's history, species, and culture, by the Curator of Kew.

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Cotyledon (According to Bentham)

According to Bentham and Hooker, this genus comprises about sixty species, natives of West and South Europe, Africa, East Asia, the Himalayas, and Mexico. To those described on pp. 388-90, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

C. edulis (edible). fl. white, Sedum-like, six to seven lines in diameter, shortly pedicellate, arranged along the upper side of the flexuose, spreading branches of the cymose panicles. l. nearly terete or obtusely trigonal, erect, whitish or glaucous-green, but without mealiness. Stems very short, thick. California (on dry banks near the sea in San Diego), 1883. The young leaves are eaten by the Indians. SYN. Sedum edulis.

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