Echeveria elegans
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Echeveria elegans. Rose. Stemless: lvs. numerous, sometimes 80-100 in cult. specimens, forming very compact rosettes, very glaucous, pale bluish green, very turgid, with translucent margins, these sometimes reddish: flowering branches pinkish, with 8-12 lvs.; fls. in a succulent raceme; corolla 5 lines long, its segms. distinct nearly to the base, pinkish with yellow spreading tips.—Known only from material collected near Pachuca, Mex., by J. N. Rose. This is one of the most beautiful species of the genus, and is well suited for rockeries or for use hi flat bedding. This is not to be confused with Cotyledon elegans, N. E. Br., which is Oliveranthus elegans. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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