Nice plants! I'm not as interested in the crested forms as I am in the 'pure' forms.. As a consequence, I don't have any in my collection.

Congratulations!

I don't know what's got into me, lol!!!

I was never ever interested in the crested forms either, but this one changed it all for me crested aeonium

I really appreciate symmetry, so I'm not sure what all this new fascination is about, but enjoying my new plants =D

Can't get enough of 'em!

duh...just realized it might be the almost mirror image of the apus that must be what I'm so enamored with.

I've always appeciated symmetry as well. I thought the crested ones looked kind of "messy" .... But I am totally in love with this little mystery baby who is looking decidedly crested:

Oh my goodness!!! Lucky YOU!!!

It's adorable!!! I always thought they looked messy too, lol, and haphazard.

Now I'm utterly enthralled. I guess at some point, it makes sense to increase criteria for collecting, otherwise we'd be buried!!! ☺

After seeing these beauties, I am feeling the itch to start a "crest collection" too

Fascinated by fascination...I don't blame you, I would like to put my hands on some too :)

Hee hee!

Very pretty--I'm just trying to grow the regular ones :-)

LOL! I thought they would be more expensive, but it turns out, they are just harder to find.

Not in a rare way, just more of a specialty thing, ya know?

A twist on succulent collecting =D

Right now I seem to be selecting for availability (ha!) color and form.

Leaves that fell off that grapto during repotting, were greedily snatched up and immediately set aside for rooting.

Now it's time to thin the herd!

I hear you about thinning the herd--time to think about winter space. I have a E. hybrid sitting on my table that is going in the trash. The flowers are not what they should be and are just plain ugly. The plant itself has no redeeming qualities to take up valuable real estate.

I would like to see that plant, noto...(one destined for trash :(

Was SOooo thinking the same thing!!!

Lol! I gotta see this ugly!!! =D

Having never been displeased with an echie, my curiosity is peaked!!

Jaw just hit the floor. Is that crested aeonium yours?!!!!

Holy moley. It's awwwwwesome. I'm looking at this on my phone, can't wait to have a real look on the lap top.

Huernia is lovely too!

Soooo jelly now and absolutely inspired!

Yes, all mine :) Its great because it never flowers and dies.

Just amazing...how long have you had this beauty?

I hope you're happy, now I must have one =D

Yes, I've read they often don't reproduce, and up until now, thought of that as simply a mildly interesting detail.

However, now that you mention it, THAT is one heck of a benefit to keeping monocarpic crested plants.

Yeaaah buddy. In my book, that seals the deal.

Here are my 2 newest additions:

Listed by seller simply as: Crested aeonium

That crested aeonium looks like A. canariensis - mine gets that color in sun. How big is it - could you post a photo of whole?

My large crested Fred Ives suffered some damage while I was gone - likely sunburn. I cut out the dried up area and have the healthy sections that were above the burn callousing. IF they survive and take root, I should have a nice collection of Fred Ives to share in a few years. :)

Rina & Hook,

LOL--my laziness strikes again because I didn't spell out the name. The ugly plant that you wanted to see was an Echinopsis.

I haven't had any of my Echeverias long enough for them to be ugly--they're doing quite nicely right now--except for the 2 I killed :-( I can't believe how quick they can rot. It is a new learning curve for sure, but this forum helps a lot.

The Echeverias and Haworthias I've acquired this summer are getting a new growing space. My sunroom is where I'm running out of room and that's where my cacti go.

Haha!!!!

I even googled ugly echeveria & got one that had a trunk like my black prince, oops =D

@ Rina

Nevermind the photobombing sedum dendroideum in the background. He's got a shipping hangover.

It's rather small, maybe 5-6" long from flush of leaves to bottom of stem.

The stem actually goes down to the bottom of that cup.

Husband drilled a hole in it for me with his handy dandy tile bit.

a.canariensis is huuuuge?!...right?

Please verify, still have Google trust issues, lol!

In some pictures it looks tremendous, others, normal.

I also scored a regular cyclops, had no idea it had wavy leaves!!

Yes, A. canariensis could get large. Mine isn't that big, and I do not know about the crested.

threads like this are why I don't come here much.

Well, now this thread is making ME wanting crests. I have one tiny pvn picked up as a leaf on a greenhouse floor that looked like it was cresting, but I just went outside to check on it and it looks like a grasshopper chewed most of the leaves. Grumble. Brought it in to see if it's salvageable. If not, maybe I could u use this as an excuse to buy more plants!!

Lol @ amynoacids!!!

Worry not my dear, lots of leaves fell from crested plants during re-potting.

Have greedily scooped them up & rooting as we speak.

Will hopefully have rooted crested babies to share before Halloween =D

Ebay has some really, really pretty ones right now.

After seeing garret's plant, I got this on ebay:

It's tiny, and had lots of crispy dried up leaves crammed between healthy ones.

Brought out the ol' tweezers, wee flashlight, magnifying glasses and went to work.

This is what it looks like now:

I'm thrilled with it!!! Even though it's teensy weensy, actually, probably because it's so teensy weensy!!!

@ old stumpy:

Wow!!! That plant looks huuuuge! How long have you had it & do the heads really not die off?

I've read conflicting things about crested plants!

Picked this one up on wed as I had them on my mind from this post. this is from a private greenhouse on long island not open to the general public. they usually don't sell them this big but cut them up to proper gate them.

Richard-that is beautiful--you must have a lot of room at your house :-) And you certainly have a great source for plants. Doe you know how old it is?

I don't have a clue as to how old and I do have a little more room than average. will start a new thread if you would like to see some pictures

Richard

Please do =D

Would love to see more!!

That plant is awwwwwesome.

I bought three small pots of graptopetalum paraguayense at walmart. The smallest rooting cutting looks like it's cresting. Here is a pic.

Can anyone confirm that it's cresting from this pic?

Most of the root cuttings look like crests at the beginning.

Agree that it seems to be hard to say when small like that.

I went through all of my rooted leaves and checked for spontaneous mutation, cause, well, ya know, I'm feelin' luckehhhhh =D

But not lucky enough for ONE of those 6 ba-JILLION leaves to have rooted funny.

If the stem is flat and wider than it is thick, then I'd say yes, in addition, it seems the crested babies have lots of nodes all along the stem.

Hookilau- you did a great job cleaning that plant up. It looks great!

Richard- wow. That plant is amazing! So is your plant room, btw.

The stem is flat at the top. But I guess I'll wait for it to grow some more to tell for sure.

Thanks for the information.

I am little curious too :) Is it crested ? Maybe its very normal :) don't know :) I am very anti-expert :D P.S. Was growing from one leaf

Good to know ;) thank u Roger :)