Echeveria elegans (Mexican Snowball)Įcheveria elegans also referred to as the Mexican snow ball or Mexican gem is a popular succulent that forms compact rosettes of fleshy, spoon-shaped and pale-green leaves that are tinted on the margins with pink.
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Light Requirement: Full sun, Filtered/Partial shade.Common Name: Echeveria colorata, Echeveria lindsayana.This plant is tolerant and easy to care for, especially in containers. In the spring, it displays bright yellow flowers on tall, pale yellow stalks. Deranosa Echeveriaĭeranosa Echeveria is a rosette-forming succulent featuring grey to bluish-green leaves, with the leaf ends tipped with maroon on the margins.
Here are the most common types of Echeveria plants: 1. This suckering habit makes them particularly ornamental in pots that they will fill in no time, often attractively spilling over the edges. Many Echeverias offset readily, eventually forming attractive colonies of rosettes.
There are about 100 species of Echeveria that come in a variety of colors (we’re talking blue, purple, silver, green, pink, red), so it’s basically guaranteed to match any vibe. Types Of Echeveria And Their Characteristics Echeverias are popular with collectors of succulent plants for their compact symmetrical leaf rosettes and for the prominent stalked inflorescence (flower cluster), which usually rises high above the leaves. The usually broad fleshy leaves have waxy, velvety, or powdery surfaces and are often iridescent and sometimes red-edged when in bright sunlight. Many are popularly called hen-and-chicks because of the way new plantlets, or offsets, develop in a cluster around the parent plant. Their unique appearance and low maintenance needs have made Echeveria widely popular and thus widely featured in succulent gardens, floral arrangements, terrariums, artwork and even wedding cakes. There are dozens of species, and hundreds of cultivars offering a wide array of colors, sizes or leaf shapes.Įcheveria succulent plants are originally from Mexico and Central America where humidity is low and temperatures rarely get too hot. The plants generally feature compact rosettes of succulent fleshy, brightly colored leaves.Echeverias belong to the family Crassulaceae, a very large family containing many genera of succulents such as Aeonium, Crassula, Kalanchoe, Sedum or Sempervivum. Echeveria are some of the most colorful and spectacular succulent plants.
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