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Anyone recognize this plant?

10 years ago
last modified: 10 years ago

i got picked it up today in my travels. There's either 2 or 3 heads.

Rosette is about the size of a 50 cent piece. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.


Echeveria of some kind? Ended up in a 2" pot.

Thank you =D

Comments (22)

  • 10 years ago

    Haworthia something

  • 10 years ago
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    Not sure about it being haworthia - the leaves look more like echeveria - minima? derenbergii? agavoides?

  • 10 years ago

    The leaves have a rigid point, it might look like a haw because in some of the pics, it was wet.

    Thank you both for your suggestions, i'll get to googling to verify ☺

  • 10 years ago

    That's why I thought agavoides...let us know what you find :)

  • 10 years ago

    It looks like e. minima & derenbergii, when taking into account the way it seems to be growing, but the coloring (unless my monitor is interfering) seems off.

    This lil guy is bright granny smith apple green. I suppose I'll get a better idea once I grow it for a little while. Expecting to see some pinky tips I suppose.

    It was in a bright spot in the greenhouse. However, it seems to me, my plants outside in the spring and summer weather, look very different than those I'm finding in professional greenhouses.

    They were brutal yesterday, btw. Hot steamy and devoid of anyone but me =D

    My husband preferred to stay in the store with my chosen plants rather than to enter greenhouse with me, ha!

  • 10 years ago

    I doubt it is Echeveria minima. Could be as suggested an agavoides (hybrid).


    This is Echeveria minima.


    Picture today.

    hookilau thanked bikerdoc5968 Z6 SE MI
  • 10 years ago

    Lol! One heck of a e.minima, that's for SURE!! Beautiful!!!

  • 10 years ago

    @Breton2, i wonder if you can post a pic of yours please? Maybe I'm not googling correctly, because it keeps pulling up wild cardsfor me ☺

  • 10 years ago
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    I will post tonight. Googling has been unsuccessful for me as well. And this one has never pinked up for me. My mother has the original ( its about 4 inches across now) and hers hasn't either. Offsets readily on long stalks. Can't recall if it has bloomed or not...

  • 10 years ago

    Wonderful! I appreciate it :)

    Thank you everyone for weighing in, you've been extremely helpful!

  • 10 years ago

    Found a photo of momma!

  • 10 years ago
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    While I doubt this is your plant, it could be a close second??? This is Echeveria purpusorum cv. You have to look very closely but it has extremely faint markings as the species. The original head in the first picture used to be 3" ~ 4", but over time and neglect, I have a plant with numerous offsets that are small because I need to remove them and grow individually.

    hookilau thanked bikerdoc5968 Z6 SE MI
  • 10 years ago

    I second bikerdoc... I think it is related to Echeveria Purpusorum. Here is a picture of mine:


    Useful Pictures · More Info
    It doesn't have the red markings of a purpusorum yet, and you can tell there are certain similarities. Of course, it looks much different with the markings.

  • 10 years ago

    Hmmm, it does resemble E. purpusorum quite a bit, I hadn't realized that! The leaves have the same stiffness. The leaves on mine are a fair bit narrower, and they never develop the purple colouring (even when grown next to my E. purpusorum), but I think it is safe to say there is some purposorum DNA in the mix!


    Thanks

    Breton

  • 10 years ago
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    My first thought was E. purpusorum - because of 'stiff' looking leaves with a ridge on back - proper term, I believe, is keeled? Then I started to question it since #1: I didn't remember many photos with pups so close, and #2: the light green color - yet I would say to others that color may change a lot with just enough or not enough light :( I have 3 purpusorums, and they are all much darker color and don't have any pups - which isn't the right way to judge, I know. Now I know they are most likely E. 'Dionysos'

    Color on E. purpusorum is described as:

    ... 'light olive green, heavily mottled and spotted with irregular reddish-brown markings, margin translucent, unspotted'. True species is rare. Plants offered in the trade usually are hybrids. There are several more or less similar hybrids, one of them is named E. 'Dionysos'. Offsetting plants most likely are all hybrids.

    So here is the answer to pups, and the color...

  • 10 years ago

    I'm definitely going to bookmark that website... Been looking for one like that for a while.

  • 10 years ago

    It is a very useful website, all right...

  • 10 years ago
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    Here is a photo of a smaller version of the plant in question next to a 'regular' E. purpusorum (ignore the scarring on the mystery plant, something burned it a few seasons ago). Not the greatest photo, but best I could do at the moment. And they do look very similar structurally...ignore the random Sedum adolphi plantlet!

    hookilau thanked breton2
  • 10 years ago

    To my untrained eye, I have to agree that the similarities are compelling. The 'spine' or ridge up the middle of the back of the leaves that Rina mentioned is what makes me want to draw this conclusion.

    Bikerdoc's cool pot O' e.purpusorum & even your momma plant are all starting to meld together for me.

    Not sure if it's just that I'm biased and only seeing the similarities, lol, so will call it a day and e.purpusorum =D


  • 10 years ago
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    Annnd perhaps for the last time today.... If all else fails, go through the Echeveria section one at a time.. You might find it! May do that myself.... lol.

    Edit: Just remembered that rina posted the link already... What's the harm??

  • 10 years ago

    Lol!! You've got way more stamina than i do!! All the echies are now starting to look alike or no where near.

    Also, not all of the cultivars have pics =S

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