I found the original growing on trees in a secluded spot in cloud forest. It grew well from cutting which ended up in hanging baskets. It apparently spreads by wind blown seeds as this past year I found it on a lichen covered rock in my garden.
Cute Echeveria species
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This appears to be Echeveria australis. Tropicos.com lists it as native from Honduras to Panama
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Very nice. It's great it is spreading like that for you.
I went to Tropicos.com and it was a beauty products site. Must be a typo for the site you went to.
I went to Tropicos.com and it was a beauty products site. Must be a typo for the site you went to.
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That is very cute, especially among the lichen.
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Many of the local plants I research, both cactus and other, can have a surprising lack of information available especially considering that they were named and published a century ago. According to an online journal
https://www.crassulaceae.ch/uploads/fil ... 202018.pdf
many mesoamerican echeverias have been misnamed over the years.
My orange flowered plant may be E pittieri and most or all identifications of red-flowered E. australis in Nicaragua may be errors.
Margrit Bischofberger was kind enough to Id my photos as
https://www.crassulaceae.ch/de/artikel? ... P&aID=1835
https://www.crassulaceae.ch/uploads/fil ... 202018.pdf
many mesoamerican echeverias have been misnamed over the years.
My orange flowered plant may be E pittieri and most or all identifications of red-flowered E. australis in Nicaragua may be errors.
Margrit Bischofberger was kind enough to Id my photos as
https://www.crassulaceae.ch/de/artikel? ... P&aID=1835
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While I am on the topic I might as well post these photos from a plant my wife bought unlabeled at a local nursery. A friend who is knowledgeable on native flora Identified it as E. guatemalensis. He has a site location in the mountains to the east of us so when the covid spike here settles down I hope to arrange with him to go there and get some habitat fotos and cuttings. I then need to download the description from the above site and study both the wild and nursery plants. Fotos are of plant in flower and plant with flowers drying. I need to get fotos of the seed pods in case this turns out to be an identifiable specimen.
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Found another one growing on trees in cloud forest. I took some cuttings and hopefully it will flower this year so I have a chance to ID it. Literature says there are 3 species native to Nicaragua, E. australis, E. Pittieri, and E guatemalensis, plus possibly E maxonii.
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Really gorgeous plants and flowers, love how they coexist with the mosses.
Growing some succs and cacs in mid/coastal Scotland.