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10 years ago

I feel like I should know this plant! Any thoughts?..

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  • 10 years ago

    It's got Graptopetalum in the woodpile.

    alicia6b thanked cactusmcharris, interior BC Z4/5
  • 10 years ago

    Hmm..I don't know..there isnt a rosette form to the plant like the Graptopetallum has.

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    It may depend on growing conditions...and there are few species.

    What do you think it is?

    alicia6b thanked rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
  • 10 years ago

    Laura, you're kind of on the right track. Your plant has fat leaves, which are a great indication of Pachyphytum in the mix of your hybrid. If you notice the OP's plant, it doesn't have them. So while it might be that both your plant and the OP's plant have Echeveria in them, it's not likely that the first plant has Pachyphytum in it. BTW, collect all of the Pachyphytums you can - they're delightful plants.

    alicia6b thanked cactusmcharris, interior BC Z4/5
  • 10 years ago

    Thank you for enlightening me on that! I am desperately trying to learn as much as I can and it's good to know I'm not completely off track. This is my first pachyphytum and now newest obsession!

    alicia6b thanked Laura Smyer (9a)
  • 10 years ago

    Rina - thanks..I have grapts..deff not one. There's no kind of rosette at all. It's growing in a greenhouse w lots of great light so no etoilation happening. I'm stumped. :\

  • 10 years ago

    Hi Laura - as far as it being a pachy..the leaves are not rotund at all. Mine has definite thinner leaves w that distinctive "bottom of a heart" shape at the leaf ends like one would see on an echeveria.

  • 10 years ago

    alicia - I didn't say it is a grapto-anything...I just said that same plants will look different under different growing conditions. And that there are (often|) few species that may look different.

    I also have few grapto's and pachyies...Do you have a suggestion as what it is?

    alicia6b thanked rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
  • 10 years ago

    I'm also obsessed with chubbly-leaved Pachy's. I only have one at the moment, and too afraid to take off a leaf to propogate it. :)


    alicia6b thanked LH On the Move
  • 10 years ago

    Rina - my apologies. I thought you were responding to my comment that was right above your entry. May I ask what you were referring to when you typed..It may depends on growing conditions...and there are few species. Few species of...?

  • 10 years ago

    I want thank everyone's thoughts on this plant. Through further research I have come to the conclusion that my plant is a type of sedeveria due to its longer leaf length (sedum) and shape of end of leaves (echeveria).

  • 10 years ago
    last modified: 10 years ago

    More of a general statements about succulents. Two of the exactly same plant may and do look different if grown under different conditions, sometimes not resembling what they are suppose to look like, at all. And there are few species of grapto as of many other succulents - again, they may look quite different from each other.

    Look at the few photos: (all pic/collection of J-M. Moullec) - all graptopetalum-something, but very differently looking:

    1. graptopetalum fruticosum:

    2. Graptopetalum mendozae:
    3. Graptopetalum filiferum:

    I just picked them randomly, and do not have photos of the exactly same plant growing under very different conditions - but this is what I have been referring to.

    Edited to add: most often, the blooms will help to ID the plant...Rina

    alicia6b thanked rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
  • 10 years ago

    alicia,

    That kind of reasoning will likely lead you to false conclusions about identification. In addition to the elucidation that Rina provided, one of the confirming cornerstones of IDing a plant is the flower, which in the case of New World Crassulaceae hybrids can be quite telling on its own, never mind the morphological features of the plant.

    alicia6b thanked cactusmcharris, interior BC Z4/5
  • 10 years ago

    I have one plant that was ID-ed as sedeveria 'Harry Butterfield' - it is trailing, similar to burrito:


    I wonder about what did you mean by ..."there isnt a rosette form to the plant like the Graptopetallum has"... was that in reference to the plant pictured or another one you have?

    And photo of my Graptopetalum superbum:



    alicia6b thanked rina_Ontario,Canada 5a
  • 10 years ago

    WHOA. Wow!! Okay guys..I have A LOT to learn! Thanks so much for those pics Rina. Jeff I promise..I won't reason like I did. Was trying to be logical.

    Scratchin my head now.. hahaa!!

  • 10 years ago

    alicia

    If/when you get the ID pls. post! I am sure you'll dig it out :)

    I don't know what your plant is and would like to know too. TIA


  • 10 years ago

    Sure will Rina :)

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