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Echeverias & their relatives
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Echeverias are an amazing and highly varied group of succulent plants widely used as garden plants and collected by hobby growers world wide. Echeverias are a native to the new world and are found throughout Central and South America in a wide range of habitats. Growth can vary from creeping clustering forms to species that grow as solitary heads often forming stems that can grow 60cm high.
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Typical echeveria forms showing the rosette growth formation and the clustering habit |
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Echeverias are rosette forming succulents and flower like heads can be only a centimetre or two across or giants with heads up to 60cm. Flower stems appear generally in the summer months with tall upright spikes each carrying a number of upside down flowers ranging from 3mm to 20mm long. Flowers stems can be attractive when first open but in some species becomes messy after a month or two and can be removed for cosmetic reasons.
Over the years intensive hybridising has developed many new echeveria forms, some from improving original species and others from the crossings of different species. In some cases these hybrids have involved intergeneric crossings. Some examples are.
Echeveria x Pachyphytum =
Pachyveria
Sedum x Echeveria = Sedeveria
Graptopetalum x Echeveria = Graptoveria
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Left is the super hybrid |
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In these pages we have included the following genera in this alliance due to their close resemblance to each other.
Pachyphytum, Graptopetalum, Tacitus and the hybrids listed above.
