Plant in a well-drained soil and irrigate only occasionally if needed between rain events from fall through early spring and very infrequently or not at all when deciduous late spring through early fall. Has proven hardy to short duration drops to 25°F in our garden.

Tylecodon wallichii is a plant of the dry succulent Karoo and North Western Cape regions of South Africa north into Namibia, growing naturally in low winter rainfall areas. As a genus Tylecodon was only described in 1978 by South African botanist Hellmut Toelken in his revision of the Crassula family. The name is an anagram (a word formed by rearranging the letters of another word) of Cotyledon, the genus that all Tylecodon plants were previously classified as. As it stands now that are 11 species of Cotyledon and 46 species of Tylecodon which makes it the second largest genus in the Crassulaceae of South Africa, with only Crassula having more species with 150. The epithet honors the Danish surgeon and botanist Nathaniel Wallich, who was involved in the early development of the Calcutta Botanical Garden and collected widely in Asia and in South Africa. 

Information displayed on this page about Tylecodon wallichii is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.