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Echeveria

Echeveria is a large genus of flowering plants in the family Crassulaceae,

Echeveria
native to semi-desert areas of Central America, Mexico and northwestern
South America.

Contents
Description
Taxonomy
Species
Cultivation
Propagation
Cultivars and Hybrids
Award winning
Formerly in Echeveria
Photo gallery
References
Echeveria elegans
External links
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Description
Clade: Angiosperms
Plants may be evergreen or deciduous. Flowers on short stalks (cymes) arise
Clade: Eudicots
from compact rosettes of succulent fleshy, often brightly coloured leaves.[2]
Species are polycarpic, meaning that they may flower and set seed many Order: Saxifragales
times over the course of their lifetimes. Often numerous offsets are Family: Crassulaceae
produced, and are commonly known as "hen and chicks", which can also
Subfamily: Sempervivoideae
refer to other genera, such as Sempervivum, that are significantly different
from Echeveria. Many species of Echeveria serve important environmental Genus: Echeveria
roles, such as those of host plants for butterflies. For example, the butterfly DC.[1]
Callophrys xami uses several species of Echeveria, such as Echevelia
Species
gibbiflora, for suitable host plants. Even more, these plants are integral to
the oviposition process of C. xami and some other butterfly species as See text
well.[3][4]
Synonyms
Taxonomy Courantia Lem.
The genus was erected by A. P. de Candolle in 1828, and is named after the
18th century Mexican botanical artist Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy. As of
Oliveranthus Rose
June 2018, the genus consists of about 150 species, including genera such as Oliverella Rose

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Oliveranthus and Urbinia that have formerly been split off from Echeveria. Urbinia Rose
Molecular phylogenetic studies have repeatedly shown the genus not to be
monophyletic: species of Echeveria cluster with species of Cremnophila, Graptopetalum, Pachyphytum, and
Thompsonella as well as species of Sedum sect. Pachysedum. The former Urbinia species do appear to form a
monophyletic group within this grouping.[5][6] Although it is clear that Echeveria is not monophyletic, its limits are not
clear, and further analyses are needed to determine whether and how the genus should be split.[6]

Species
One source accepts the following species:[7]
Echeveria cuencaensis von
Poellnitz
Echeveria cuspidata Rose
Echeveria dactylifera Walther
Echeveria decumbens
Kimnach
Echeveria derenbergii
J.A.Purpus
Echeveria desmetiana De
Smet
Echeveria diffractens Kimnach
& A.B.Lau
Echeveria elegans Rose
Echeveria eurychlamys
(Diels) Berger
Echeveria excelsa
(Diels)Berger
Echeveria fimbriata
C.H.Thompson
Echeveria fulgens Lemaire
Echeveria gibbiflora DC
Echeveria gigantea Rose &
Purpus
Echeveria globuliflora Walther
Islas (Robinson & Seaton) Rose
Echeveria olivacea Moran Echeveria subspicata
Echeveria oreophila Kimnach (Baker) Berger
Echeveria pallida Walther Echeveria tamaulipana
Martinez-Ávalos, Mora & Terry
Echeveria paniculata Gray
Echeveria tencho Moran &
Echeveria papillosa Kimnach &
Uhl
C.H.Uhl
Echeveria tenuis Rose
Echeveria patriotica García &
Pérez-Calix Echeveria teretifolia Sessé
& Mociño ex DC
Echeveria penduliflora Walther
Echeveria tobarensis
Echeveria pendulosa Kimnach
Berger
& Uhl
Echeveria tolimanensis
Echeveria perezcalixii Jimeno-
Matuda
Sevilla & Carillo
Echeveria tolucensis Rose
Echeveria peruviana Meyrán
Echeveria trianthina Rose
Echeveria pilosa J.A.Purpus
Echeveria triquiana Reyes
Echeveria pinetorum Rose
& Brachet
Echeveriap pistioides García et
Echeveria turgida Rose
al.
Echeveria uhlii Meyrán
Echeveria pittieri Rose
Echeveria unguiculata
Echeveria platyphylla Rose
Kimnach
Echeveria pringlei (S.Watson)
Echeveria utcubambensis
Rose
Hutchinson ex Kimnach
Echeveria procera M

Cultivation
Many Echeveria species are popular as ornamental garden plants. They are drought-resistant, although they do better
with regular deep watering and fertilizing. Most will tolerate shade and some frost, although hybrids tend to be less
tolerant. Most lose their lower leaves in winter; as a result, after a few years, the plants lose their compact appearance and
need to be re-rooted or propagated. In addition, if not removed, the shed leaves may decay, harboring fungus that can
then infect the plant.

Propagation
They can be propagated easily by separating offsets, but also by leaf cuttings, and by seed if they are not hybrids.

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Cultivars and Hybrids

Echeveria has been extensively bred and hybridized. The following is a
selection of available plants.

‘Arlie Wright’
‘Black Prince’
‘Blue Heron’
‘Blue Surprise’ (E. × gilva)
Echeveria glauca in a Connecticut
‘Dondo’
greenhouse, kept at 77 °F (25 °C)
‘Doris Taylor’
‘Ebony’ (E. agavoides cultivar)
‘Frank Reinelt’
‘Hoveyi’
‘Lipstick’ (E. agavoides cultivar)
‘Oliver’ (E. pulvinata cultivar)
‘Opalina’
‘Painted Lady’
‘Perle von Nürnberg’
‘Paul Bunyan’
‘Red’ (E. × gilva)
Echeveria laui - a species with
‘Ruberia’
round, glaucous leaves
‘Set-Oliver’
‘Tippy’
‘Victor Reiter’ (E. agavoides cultivar)
‘Wavy Curls’
‘Worfield Wonder’ (E. × derosa)

Award winning
The following have gained the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden
Merit:[8]
E. gibbiflora
Echeveria agavoides[9]
Echeveria chihuahuaensis[10]
Echeveria derrenbergii[11]
Echeveria elegans[12]
Echeveria ‘Perle von Nürnberg’[13]
Echeveria runyonii ‘Topsy Turvy’[14]
Echeveria secunda var. glauca ‘Compton Carousel’[15]
Echeveria setosa[16]
Echeveria × bombycina[17]

Echeveria nodulosa - painted

Formerly in Echeveria echeveria

Dudleya anthonyi (as E. anthonyi)

Dudleya arizonica Rose (as E. arizonica (Rose) Kearney & Peebles)
Dudleya attenuata (as E. attenuata and E. edulis var. attenuata)
Dudleya caespitosa (as E. californica, E. cotyledon, E. helleri, and E. laxa)
Dudleya candida (as E. candida)
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Dudleya cultrata (as E. cultrata)

Dudleya cymosa (Lem.) Britton & Rose (as E. cymosa Lem.)
Dudleya edulis (as E. edulis)
Dudleya pulverulenta ssp. pulverulenta (as E. argentea and E.
pulverulenta)
Dudleya saxosa ssp. collomiae (as E. collomiae)
Graptopetalum paraguayense (N.E.Br.) E.Walther (as E. weinbergii hort. ex
T.B.Sheph.)
Pachyveria clavifolia (as E. clavifolia)
Echeveria ‘Perle von Nürnberg’

Photo gallery

Flowers of Echeveria Echeveria cv. ‘Black The flowers of E. E. secunda var. glauca
‘Blue Curl’ Prince’ pulvinata are in bright in the UBC Botanical
yellowish orange color. Garden

Echeveria ‘Black Prince’

. 2018 Taichung World
Flora Exposition,
Taiwan.

References
1. "Genus: Echeveria DC" (http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?4091). Germplasm Resources
Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2003-06-13. Retrieved 2011-10-21.
2. RHS A-Z encyclopedia of garden plants. United Kingdom: Dorling Kindersley. 2008. p. 1136. ISBN 1405332964.
3. Opler, Paul A. (1999). A Field Guide to Western Butterflies (https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ilL_XX1rb
NoC&oi=fnd&pg=PA5&dq=xami+hairstreak&ots=snM_j00niV&sig=ZHNQzcYOl28WUlBUZ4HnzJPYfXY#v=onepage&
q=xami%20hairstreak&f=false). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. pp. 218–219. ISBN 0395791510.

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4. Ziegler, J. Benjamin; Escalante, Tarsicio (1964). "Observations on the Life History of Callophrys Xami (Lycaenidae)"
(http://images.peabody.yale.edu/lepsoc/jls/1960s/1964/1964-18(2)85-Ziegler.pdf) (PDF). Journal of the Lepidopterists'
Society. 18 (2): 85–89.
5. Carrillo-Reyes, Pablo; Sosa, Victoria & Mort, Mark E. (2009), "Molecular phylogeny of the Acre clade (Crassulaceae):
Dealing with the lack of definitions for Echeveria and Sedum", Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 53 (1): 267–
276, doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2009.05.022 (https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.ympev.2009.05.022)
6. Vázquez-Cotero, Carlos; Sosa, Victoria & Carrillo-Reyes, Pablo (2017), Phylogenetic position of Echeveria
heterosepala (Crassulaceae): a rare species with diagnostic characters of Pachyphytum, 95 (3), pp. 515–526,
doi:10.17129/botsci.1190 (https://doi.org/10.17129%2Fbotsci.1190)
7. http://www.crassulaceae.ch/de/artikel?akID=48
8. "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/pdfs/agm-lists/agm-ornamentals.pdf) (PDF). Royal
Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 34. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
9. "RHS Plantfinder - Echeveria agavoides" (https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/6220/i-Echeveria-agavoides-i/Details).
Retrieved 25 April 2019.
10. "RHS Plantfinder - Echeveria chihuahuaensis" (https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/247078/i-Echeveria-chihuahuaensis-i/D
etails). Retrieved 25 April 2019.
11. "RHS Plantfinder - Echeveria derrenbergii" (https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/6225/i-Echeveria-derenbergii-i/Details).
Retrieved 25 April 2019.
12. "RHS Plantfinder - Echeveria elegans" (https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/6226/i-Echeveria-elegans-i/Details). Retrieved
25 April 2019.
13. "RHS Plantfinder - Echeveria 'Perle von Nürnberg' " (https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/104319/i-Echeveria-i-Perle-von-Nu
rnberg/Details). Retrieved 25 April 2019.
14. "RHS Plantfinder - Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy' " (https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/125401/i-Echeveria-runyonii-i-Top
sy-Turvy/Details). Retrieved 25 April 2019.
15. "RHS Plantfinder - Echeveria secunda var. glauca 'Compton Carousel' " (https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/296469/i-Eche
veria-secunda-i-var-i-glauca-i-Compton-Carousel/Details). Retrieved 25 April 2019.
16. "RHS Plantfinder - Echeveria setosa" (https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/6245/i-Echeveria-setosa-i/Details). Retrieved
25 April 2019.
17. "RHS Plantfinder - Echeveria × bombycina" (https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/327517/i-Echeveria-i-×-i-bombycina-i/Detai
ls). Retrieved 25 April 2019.

External links
Media related to Echeveria at Wikimedia Commons
Data related to Echeveria at Wikispecies

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