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Crassulaceae
Echeveria
Echeveria elegans
Enduring affection.
- Family
- Crassulaceae
- Genus
- Echeveria
- Native to
- Mexico
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer
- Type
- succulent
- Height
- 2-6 in
- Sunlight
- full sun to part shade
- Soil
- well-drained, gritty
- Water
- low
- Hardiness
- 9-11
- Lifespan
- perennial
Did you know
- Each rosette is a near-perfect mathematical spiral following the Fibonacci sequence.
- Named after Atanasio Echeverría, a Mexican botanical artist who illustrated New World plants in the late 1700s.
- The bell-shaped flowers dangle from arching pink stems and last for weeks.
- Echeveria leaves accumulate a powdery wax (farina) that protects them from intense sun.
- Each leaf can grow into a new plant if it falls onto soil, making them extraordinarily easy to propagate.
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