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Echeveria agavoides Lemaire 1863
The rosettes of thick leaves grow slowly to 10 - 12 inches in diameter. Rosettes are often solitary but may produce offsets at their base or on stolons when mature. Various selected forms with coloured leaf margins or cristate growth habit are in circulation. This species has also been used to make hybrids. Undemanding but not frost hardy.
Native to rocky outcrops at high altitudes in central Mexico.
Left: Echeveria agavoides cv. "Red Edge" Walther 1972
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Echeveria cante Glass & Mendoza-Garcia 1997
The rosettes grow up to 16 in diameter with large fleshy, obovate glaucous leaves with an acute tip, sometimes tinged with purple and with a pinkish margin. The inflorescence is a cymose cluster of orange flowers.
Native to the Mexican state of Zacatecas. Although fairly new to cultivation, this species is already appearing as a feature plant in Summer bedding.
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Echeveria derenbergii Purpus 1921
The rosettes of glaucous leaves with reddened margins become columnar with age. The base of the column is felted with persistent old dried leaves. The inflorescence is a small cluster of upright yellow bell-like flowers.
Native to the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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Echeveria harmsii Macbride 1931
The thick stems have a rosette of grey-green leaves with purple margins, near their growing points. Some older leaves remain distributed along the stems or older leaves may wither and drop off. The lax inflorescence has several green bracts along its length, terminating in one or two maroon flowers with yellow tips and insides.
All parts may be slightly pubescent except for inside the flowers.
Native to the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Makes a good show when in flower.
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Echeveria leuchotricha Purpus 1914
Ovate blue-green leaves with dense white pubescence becoming brown near the leaf tips are arranged into loose rosettes towards the ends of the stems. The inflorescence is a short, upright spike of red flowers within glaucous blue bracts.
Native to the Mexican state of Puebla.
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Echeveria macdougallii Walther 1958 Syn. Echeveria sedoides Walther 1972
Small fleshy rosettes of oval yellow-green leaves with reddened tips are carried on the end of an upright brown stem. The inflorescence is a small cluster of orange flowers with yellow inner surfaces on the end of a long stem with oval green sepals.
Native to the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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Echeveria prolifica Moran & Meyrán 1978
The rosettes are formed from fleshy, glaucous ovate leaves with a pointed tip and colouring up pink especially on their undersides. Both leaves and bracts from the cymose inflorescence detach and root easily to form new plants. The camapnulate flowers are yellow and a unique form in this genus.
Native to the Mexican state of Puebla.
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Echeveria pulvinata Rose 1903
The ovate green leaves with reddish tips are arranged alternately along the stem, clustering into a rosette near the growing point. The inflorescence is a short cluster of yellow flowers within green bracts with red tips.
These plants are entirely pubescent except for within the flowers.
Native to the Mexican state of Oaxaca. Selected cultivars may have particularly red or white hairs on the leaves.
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Echeveria setosa Rose & Purpus 1910
The rosettes are formed from many thick green leaves with hairy margins and surfaces. Older leaves appear to lose their hairs. The inflorescence is a cincinnus (raceme with alternate flowers developed left and right) of flowers with red bases with yellow tips.
Native to the Mexican states of Puebla and Oaxaca.
This variable species has five subspecies with different sizes of rosettes and differing degrees of hairyness.
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Echeveria strictiflora Gray 1852
The rosettes are formed from grey-green oblanceolate leaves. Some populations have red margins to their leaves. The inflorescence is a raceme of yellow-red flowers.
Native to Texas and Northern Mexico and the only Echeveria species found in North America. Photographed on the South-facing side of a canyon in the baisin area of the Chisos Mountains, Texas where it grows with Tradescantia. On the North-facing side of the canyon the Echeverias were less compact.
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