Echeveria cuspidata
These perennial succulents have thick green or gray-green leaves that overlap in rosettes that often resemble artichokes.
Echeveria
Family: Crassulaceae.
Genus of about 150 species of evergreen and ocasionally duciduous succulents and subshrubs from dry, often semi-desert areas in Texas, Mexico, and from Central America to Andes.
ECHEVERIA
The greatest number are natives of Mexico. They form rosettes of varying sizes. Some are low-growing, stemless plants often making clusters. Others form heavy stems with one single large rosette of leaves.
Echeveria
Dwarf succulent plants, much used in the flower garden, especially the half-hardy species like secunda.
Echeveria pulvinata
Plush Plant
Crassulaceae
Echeveria pulvinata or Plush Plant, a native of Southern Mexico, is an interesting Echeveria. Leaves are covered in fine white hairs that give the plant a silvery appearance when the sun hits the plant.
Echeveria; 'Zorro', 'Big Red' and 'Blue Curls'
Botanical name: Echeveria x hybrida
Origin: Native to Texas, Mexico, Central America to South America.
Fire and Ice Echeveria
Pale, pale foliage that looks even more so thanks to its blood-red edges. Ethereal or ominous, you decide. Otherworldly either way. Zones 8, 9, 12-24. Needs part shade.
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Echeveria species
Cacti and Succulents
Sow in spring, just covered, as light is needed for germination, 55-65F/ 13-18C or up; germination is irregular. Clumps need ample space to develop.
Echeveria is a large genus of succulents in the Crassulaceae family. The genus Echeveria is named after the 18th century Spanich botanist Atanasio Echeverria Codoy. Several of these species are outstanding garden plants.
Echeveria 'Topsy Turvy'
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Echinacea purpurea
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Echeveria elegans
2"-3"
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Kalanchoe, Echeveria, Crassula: Leaf cuttings of succulents should be left a day or two to callus (the cut surface thickens) before potting.
The hen and chicks plant (Echeveria) is a succulent that is often planted as a groundcover or in rock gardens. It is an annual plant with a short rosette appearance and it is a hardy grower, making a…
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Species and varieties
Urbinia agavoides synonym of Echeveria agavoides (Molded Wax Agave)
Urbinia purpusii synonym of Echeveria purpusorum
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Related genera in the CRASSULACEÆ (Stonecrop Family) include Echeveria, Kalanchoe, Sedum and Sempervivum. More than a dozen species of Crassula are prized as garden ornamentals or houseplants.
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Worldwide, there are 35 genera and 1,500 species, including 9 genera in North America. Many are cultivated as ornamentals, including: Aeonium, Cotyledon, Crassula, Dudleya, Echeveria, Kalanchoe, Sedum and Sempervivum.
shapes, colors, and sizes, grasses are perfect for container gardens. Here, for example, fiber opticgrass (in a simple terra-cotta container) decorates a plain old stone wall. The effect is maximized by a contrasting texture: a gray-blue echeveria.
The Echeveria of gardens is now included in this genus. Sempervivum has about so species in the mountains of central and southern Europe, in the Himalayas, Abyssinia, and the Canaries and Madeira; S.
 See also: Sedum, Orchid, Kalanchoe, Primrose, Bells
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