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| Good morning, GardenWebbers!
I have an ID for you, and I'm sure it shouldn't prove too difficult, since this type of
Hopefully you can help us out. It looks like an Echeveria to me, but I've been wrong before! Much appreciated!
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- Posted by paracelsus 9b: SF bay area (My Page) on Mon, Aug 22, 11 at 13:02
| Echeveria? Yes. Species: probably Echevera imbricata Do you have a flower pic? |
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- Posted by paracelsus (My Page) on Mon, Aug 22, 11 at 13:10
| All of my Echeveria, in pots and in the ground, survived 5 nights of temps in the mid-twenties F during the Great Freeze of 2007 without damage. I wouldn't worry too much unless temps stayed below freezing all day long. |
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- Posted by cactusmcharris 4 / Interior BC (My Page) on Mon, Aug 22, 11 at 13:43
| Brad, How is Josh's different from E. elegans? Thanks, Jeff |
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- Posted by paracelsus (My Page) on Mon, Aug 22, 11 at 13:49
| San Marcos Growers notes that imbricata is one if the hardiest Echeveria, citing hardiness to 20-25F. Mine have survived lows of 25F. |
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- Posted by paracelsus (My Page) on Mon, Aug 22, 11 at 14:10
| Jeff, imbricata is much larger than elegans, and the flower colors are different. E. elegans has red flowers with yellow tips, and imbricata sports pink flowers with yellow tips. I have them beside each in the ground, and the most obvious difference without flowers is rosette size. 'Imbricata' can have 10-12 inch diameter rosettes. Poking around a bit, I see that 'Imbricata' is a cultivar, not a species. It is E. glauca X E. gibbiflora 'Mettalica'. |
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- Posted by paracelsus (My Page) on Mon, Aug 22, 11 at 14:19
| I dropped a 0 and the page went to another plant altogether. Here is Echeveria 'Imbricata' at San Marcos Growers, I hope. :-) |
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- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Mon, Aug 22, 11 at 15:16
| Thanks, gentlemen! Brad, I don't have a flower pic, unfortunately. Now...when best to plant some these out?
Josh |
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- Posted by cactusmcharris 4 / Interior BC (My Page) on Mon, Aug 22, 11 at 15:31
| Josh, Now is a good time (trusting most of your hot weather has passed). Remember, in California there's no parking on the dance floor. |
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- Posted by pirate_girl Zone7 NYC (My Page) on Mon, Aug 22, 11 at 21:29
| I'd thought E. elegans as well. I'd love to see pix of the two mentioned side by side sometime pls. Para if that were possible. I just love the form of these rosettes, their proportion, spacing btwn the leaves, so cup-like, coming to the graceful point, it's just impeccable design by nature! |
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- Posted by cactusmcharris 4 / Interior BC (My Page) on Mon, Aug 22, 11 at 22:21
| Brad, I'd like to see those, too, if we may. Karen, I agree with you about the design - the stereotypical succulent rosette pulled off perfectly. |
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- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Tue, Aug 23, 11 at 12:29
| Jeff, August and September are two of our hottest months, now that the soil has been heated all summer. The red dirt is baked hard without a hope of rain 'til November. October might be good planting. I'm going to beg a chick for my own hen-housing...who knows, it might not totally freeze here? Karen, I've done a google image search to compare E. elegans and E. 'Imbricata.'
Josh |
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| It looks like imbricata more than elegans to me, but the flower will tell you for sure. |
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- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Tue, Sep 20, 11 at 1:46
| Indeed, pink flowers with yellow insides/tips.... I'll post a pic tomorrow. Josh |
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- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Tue, Sep 20, 11 at 18:15
| And here we have it....
Josh |
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- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Wed, Dec 14, 11 at 10:35
| Now I have my own little chick rooted and growing.... So far so good, outdoors without any protection from the cold. Good thing, too, since there's no room at the Inn. About two inches across....
Josh |
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- Posted by pirate_girl Zone7 NYC (My Page) on Wed, Dec 14, 11 at 12:55
| Nice Josh, Such a handsome little fellow, perfection in rosette form. I wish I had enough sun to grow these here in NYC, but to date, my experience w/ Ech here (indoors only) is they get rather leggy. Oh well, I'll have to love yours from afar! |
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- Posted by greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a (My Page) on Wed, Dec 14, 11 at 13:37
| Thanks, Karen! The friends who gave me this cutting have taken their pots indoors for the winter,
Josh |
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