| Description | A beautiful rosette-forming succulent with interestingly pale grayish brown with pink highlights. |
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| Pronunciation | (ech-e-VER-i-a) |
| Plant Type | All Plants, Succulents |
| Hardiness Zone | 9-11, else where over winter indoors |
| Sunlight | full |
| Moisture | average, tolerates dry but doesn't mind an occasional watering |
| Soil & Site | well drained |
| Growing Media | well drained, cactus and succulent mix |
| Temperature | hardy to around 25 degrees F |
| Flowers | emerge in summer on foot-long reddish stem, coral pink with yellowish center |
| Leaves | 5-6 inch rosette, pale grayish brown with pink highlights, white powdery dusting (pruinose), the pruinose is easily rubbed off by handling the leaves |
| Maintenance | cut back (dead head) removing the rosette, rosette can be rooted and the remaing plant will regrow amny times with mutipul heads |
| Propagation | rotting the stem with rosette |
| Cultivar Origin | Hybrid between Echeveria gibbiflora 'Metalica' x E. potosina (now E. elegans) that was created by Richard Graessner of Perleberg, Germany in the 1930s. (#156) |
| Misc Facts | The genus Echeveria was named to honor Atanasio Echeveria, a Mexican botanical artist. |
| Notes & Reference | #156-San Marcos Growers web site (www.smgrowers.com) |
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