It's two succulents of different species, cross-bred, to create an entirely new species of succulent. This practice allows you to make custom varietals that you've maybe never seen before.
You can also cross-breed based on the genus of the plant rather than its species. Plants of the same genus are likely to mix well, as they have similar characteristics already. By doing this, you can change your plant to better, different, and maybe even sturdier than its parent plants, depending on what your intentions are.
How to hybridise succulents?
Practising hybridization involves cross-pollinating your succulents. It's necessary to cross-pollinate using an already-bloomed plant.
You'll first need to pollinate the succulent of your choice with your other succulent of choice. This practice is relatively simple.
Take a soft, small brush (like a paintbrush) or Q-tip and place it inside one flower, gathering its pollen, and transfer that to another succulent's flower. This should create a cross-pollinated seed pod, too, the seeds of which you can plant. If your succulents each have more than one flower, you can do this for each flower. You'll want to keep your 'new' plant in semi-isolation to avoid it getting contaminated with the pollen from a different plant.
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