Rank Species | Genus Echeveria Higher classification Echeveria | |
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Similar Echeveria, Crassulaceae, Echeveria agavoides, Echeveria setosa, Leatherpetal | ||
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.
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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.
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
As it does not tolerate temperatures below 7 °C (45 °F), in temperate regions it is grown under glass with heat. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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.
