Echeveria 'Heart's Choice Crested' is an interesting succulent with many gray-green leaves crowded along flattened stems, creating …
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Generic Name: Echeveria
Derivation: Honors Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy (fl. 1771–1803), an 18th-century botanical artist and naturalist from New Spain who trained at the Royal Art Academy in Mexico City.
Pronunciation: ech-eh-VER-ee-a
Alternative Pronunciation: ech-eh-ver-EE-a
While two or more genera often share the same specific epithet, which may also be used for subspecies, varieties, and forms within a species, the generic name must be unique. Below is a list of plants in the genus Orbea.
Echeveria 'Ramillete Crested' is a captivating succulent with tightly packed, frosty apple-green leaves that grow along flattened stems …
Echeveria shaviana 'Pink Frills' (Pink Frills Echerveria) is a beautiful succulent plant that forms a central rosette surrounded by …
Echeveria tolimanensis is a unique succulent that forms a short-stemmed, usually solitary rosette of powdery, dark green to yellowish …
Echeveria gibbiflora 'Metallica' (Metallic Echeveria) is a beautiful succulent that forms short-stemmed rosettes of glaucous green leaves …