No, but it's one of the most gorgeous things I have ever seen : ) Thank you!

Jen

My son David was looking at the photo above and thought he could do better. Here is his photo of the plant:

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I have one called Purple Ghost, but its very dark in colour and quite small.

(I dont know how old your son is but he did a good job!)

Brad,

That's a lovely picture by yourself, and another fine one by Son of Para.

Judging from the flowering habit, I'd say it's a mix of Pachyphytum and Echeveria. I've got one that has similar growth habit and have it tagged as Graptoveria 'Opalina'.

Thanks again - it's a fine-looking plant.

Dear Brad,

I miswrote something above. My plant, Graptoveria 'Opalina', has a branched inflorescence typical of Graptopetalums. While it is somewhat similar in form to your plant, I mixed them up, as I compared my plant to yours - yours has Pachyphytum in it, as seen in the single inflorescence stalks.

My son is 15 and pretty good with the camera. He is learning to use photoshop. I like his flower detail very much.

So then it's a pachyveria something or other, Jeffrey! Maybe the tag was Pachyveria 'puple haze'.

Thanks for the information about branched and single stalk inflorescences. That will help sort out some of my other plants heritage. It's a good thing I don't get to concerned about the true identity of my echeverias, pachyphytums, and graptopetalums They all have somewhat suspect pedigrees anyway because of a long history of promiscuous inter-breeding and their habit of having indiscriminant incestuous relations with multiple partners. I just try to keep them happy and let them do their own thing. The damage to the gene pool is somebody elseÂs problem. ;]

Para, running from the Puritans

Jeffery,
You mentioned that you have a Graptoveria "Opalina". I just ordered one, and it is being shipped, but I was just wondering, does it flower like the one in the picture?! If so, Wow.
b

Jeffrey,
I totally spelled your name wrong in my last post... sorry :)

Hi, Para.

Kudos to you AND David. They are both great photos! I really like that yours shows the detail of the plant, and his shows detail of the flowers. What a beautiful plant!

Kate