This was the most interesting plant I saw on a garden tour yesterday. I've never seen such blue leaves on a succulent. See photo, showing the plant in a 30 centimeter diameter pot. It's only a few centimeters high. The owner said it was a kind of jade plant. She said that it has to be left in the shade to stay blue, otherwise it turns green in the sun. It looks very similar to my Portulacaria afra. I'm guessing it's some kind of Portulacaria. Can anyone name it, please? Then I can try buying it online, or maybe get a nursery to order it for me. The owner couldn't remember exactly where she bought it, except that it was at a nursery in Long Beach, Southern California. Thanks for any help with this.
Does not look like natural colour. Possibly dyed? http://www.petaltalk-jean.com/2013/03/a-cactus-of-different-color.html
Thanks for introducing me to the land of dyed succulents. I've seen dyed flowers, but never succulents. It certainly looked dyed/fake. And the color looked like the blue in the Echeveria link you gave. Thanks for that. If you look at a close up of my photo, you can see the demarkation lines between the blue and green on a few leaves. The line between the two colors is rather straight/sharp, so it looks fake. But when I asked the owner about it, she replied that it has to be left in the shade to stay blue, insinuating that it was natural. Maybe I was duped!
What does a cross-section of one of these leaves look like? That would determined whether it is dyed or painted. If the plant was dyed, perhaps increased photosynthesis causes some of the dye to be transported out of the plant tissue or sunlight breaks down the dye.