The flowers are exactly the same for the species and the hybrid. They are some of the largest Echeveria flowers. Yours is further along than mine which have just started to open.

Thanks for putting the 'problem' so clearly. What I am calling E. runyonii 'Topsy Turvy' is in bloom now and this is its flower; it isn't a hybrid, but a cultivar name which Kimnach said arose from a mutation.

Hoping for some clarification. Yale

Sorry, I'm not much for hybrid vs cultivar, etc. I know my plants have the same size flower and are indistinguishable from one another. Unfortunately, my 'Topsy Turvy' won't be blooming for at least another month.

Very pretty. I have a bloom just like it as well and it's not from my Topsy Turvy.

Yale, I believe the flowers in your 1st pic are of Echeveria 'Lucita', going by your plant pic (at your link). The leaves on your plant are a bit longer than usually seen, but the thickness indicates to me 'Lucita', rather than its parent, E. runyonii. My 'Topsy Turvy' also had exploded/monstrose(?) blooms like yours, so I was surprised to see the species bloom (as well as others' 'Topsy Turvy') have blooms like those in your 1st pic.

I've assumed that upside down leaves characterized E. runyonii 'Topsy Turvy' but that may be wrong, and there may be at least two different species with this mutation.

Hoping to see more photos of flowering Echeveria with upside down leaves. Yale