Echeveria elegans

Echeveria elegans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Order:Saxifragales
Family:Crassulaceae
Genus:Echeveria
Species: E. elegans
Binomial name
Echeveria elegans
Synonyms
  • Oliverella elegans Rose, 1903[2]

Echeveria elegans (Mexican snow ball, Mexican gem, white Mexican rose) is a species of flowering plant in the Crassulaceae family, native to semi-desert habitats in Mexico.

Description

Echeveria elegans is a succulent evergreen perennial growing to 5–10 cm (2–4 in) tall by 50 cm (20 in) wide, with tight rosettes of pale green-blue fleshy leaves, bearing 25 cm (10 in) long slender pink stalks of pink flowers with yellow tips in winter and spring.[3]

Cultivation

Echeveria elegans is cultivated as an ornamental plant for rock gardens planting, or as a potted plant. It thrives in subtropical climates, such as Southern California

It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[4]

Like others of its kind, it produces multiple offsets which can be separated from the parents in spring, and grown separately - hence the common name "hen and chicks", applied to several species within the genus Echeveria.[3]

Flowers of echeveria elegans.

References

  1. ↑ Rose, J.N. 1905. North American Flora. New York Botanical Garden 22: 22
  2. ↑ Rose, Bull. New York Bot. Gard. 3: 2. 1903
  3. 1 2 RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
  4. ↑ "Echeveria elegans". Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
  • Attila Kapitany, (2009). Knowing Echeverias, Cactus and Succulent Journal, Volume 81 Issue 2.
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