What is this?

Jillybean · Post by **Jillybean** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:21 pm

I bought this beauty at a greenhouse today, and none of the employees had any idea what it was! Pictures on the internet point to it being an echeveria, but I'm not sure what kind, or if it's even an echeveria at all.

I'm not sure how to care for it in my home in western New York. Does it need a lot of sun? A lot of water? Does it flower continually or only once in a while? Is it bad to touch the leaves and make the whitish film rub off? What kind of soil would I use if I transplanted it?

Of course, if you don't know all that I can always look it up once I find out for sure what it is.

Jillybean · Post by **Jillybean** » Thu Jun 08, 2006 10:22 pm

http://www.chautauquaamp.com/picturepag ... ic%201.jpg

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 1:36 am

A better picture of the body would help.

taliesin · Post by **taliesin** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 10:11 am

thats an echivera, could be elegans

DieTer-Xz · Post by **DieTer-Xz** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 11:36 am

Indeed, without a doubt Echeveria, but I don't think it is E. elegans as the thickness of the leafs doesn't look right.

Buck Hemenway · Post by **Buck Hemenway** » Fri Jun 09, 2006 12:45 pm

Hi Jillybean,

It is either Echeveria imbricata or E. glauca depending on who's looking at the specimen. No one wll argue with either name.