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Succulent ID!

11 years ago

I recently picked up this baby at Wal-Mart (after sobbing at the neglect) and this one didn't have a label. I'm thinking an echeveria but I just dont know the specifics.

This one was given to me for my birthday!

for a while I thought it was a sort of topsy turvy but I have no clue!!

The first one is in a moss type pot and I'm wondering how I could water or repot because it's pretty tightly compacted!


Comments (8)

  • 11 years ago

    Thank you Rina!! I'm not quite sure how to re-pot just because it's so compacted and I don't know how to get it out without hurting the leaves.

  • 11 years ago

    I'd say you may have the real Echeveria 'Tippy'! Easy to get mixed up with a couple others.
    I also think the other is Echeveria 'Topsy Turvy' (a bit different than usually seen).


  • 11 years ago

    Just take it out of that pot (you can turn the container upside down, holding rosette in your palm), try to 'shake' off the soil, help with a wooden skewer - gently tease/poke soil from between the roots. If too difficult because soil is too dry, you can put it in some water to soften. If it is really hard peat, you could use tepid water (peat, once very dry, is difficult to re-wet).
    Check the roots to see if they are healthy, or any damaged-dry or (hopefully not) soft & mushy.

    Trim off any dead or damaged. Set it on some newspaper to dry for a day or two. Pot into a well draining gritty mix, make sure new container has drainage hole.

    Rina

  • 11 years ago

    I would agree with RoRo about the Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvey'. The leaves are curled as one would expect but the color, IMHO, is off. As for the other Echeveria under scrutiny: Echeveria 'Tippy'. RoRo help me out... you already know I need a new pair of "Cheaters". Here are three plants that all "look" similar. Take it from me, they all have VERY similar flowers. The plant in the upper left is Echeveria chichuahuensis as identified by John Tragger of The Huntington Garden. I purchased the other two as Echeveria 'Tippy'; the smaller one in front from an independent grower in Oregon (not that it means they know correct names) and the larger one to the right grown by Altman Plants also unreliable for correctness of names. First, all three of mine look the same now that I put them together. Next, individual growing habits could affect leaf appearance but the leaves in the first pic of this post look as if they have less substance... thinner and more elongated, if you will. With all of this, I'm not saying it couldn't be E. 'Tippy'. Just want to muddy the waters for the sake of discussion.


    Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy'




  • 11 years ago

    Jumping in & out, so rushed response, Howard...3 similar that give me confusion (headache) are: chihuahuaensis, colorata & lindsayana. E. 'Tippy' is (questionably/supposedly) from E. cuspidata. In my original succulent collecting days, I had one as 'Tippy'. I was sure of it. Until I got the Echeveria Cultivar book. It shows 'Tippy' looking very different. All of your plants look like what I would've called 'Tippy' back then! :D Now, looking at the book again, I take back what I said about haddocksings plant being 'Tippy'. We may need blooms to help figure ID...IF that is even a help in this case! Eek!

    I'm curious, did you send a pic of that plant to John Trager for ID?

    Keep this in mind...some nurseries (& others) may be identifying their plants by OLD pix of MINE on the web, labelled 'Tippy'!! Yikes! I could be part of the problem down the line of the domino chain effect!! :(

    Great instructions by Rina for repotting! :)


  • 11 years ago

    Yes, I did send pics to John of this and others. This was several years ago and he was super nice to respond. While I've never met him, he seems very nice and was very helpful.

  • 11 years ago
    last modified: 11 years ago

    How about this for the Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy' wanna be????

    Echeveria 'Irish Mint'. I'm sure there is some 'Topsy Turvy' parentage. Apparently, this is an Altman Plants original hybrid created by Renee O'Connell. She must be on a 'Topsy Turvy' roll with 'this and 'Cubic Frost'!