Scientific Name
×Sedeveria 'Letizia'
Common Name(s)
Lety's Sedeveria
Scientific Classification
Family: Crassulaceae
Subfamily: Sempervivoideae
Tribe: Sedeae
Nothogenus: ×Sedeveria
Description
×Sedeveria 'Letizia' is a beautiful small succulent that forms a cluster of stems with rosettes at the end. The rosettes are up to 2.4 inches (6 cm) in diameter and bear many green, tightly arranged leaves with fine hairs along the margins. The leaves are deltoid-shaped and up to 1 inch (2.5 cm) long. They are green in summer or when grown in the shade but turn red in the sun with colder temperatures. In spring, multiple inflorescences rise from below the rosette top and bear flowers in a scorpioid cyme. The flowers are white with petal tips barely pink and with the stem bristling with fine hairs.
Hardiness
USDA hardiness zones 9a to 11b: from 20 °F (−6.7 °C) to 45 °F (+7.2 °C).
How to Grow and Care
When growing Sedums, keep in mind that these plants need very little attention or care. They will thrive in conditions that many other plants thrive in but do just as well in less hospitable areas. They are ideal for that part of your yard that gets too much sun or too little water to grow anything else. A common name for Sedum is Stonecrop because many gardeners joke that only stones need less care and live longer.
Sedum is easily planted. For shorter varieties, simply laying the plant on the ground where you want it to grow is usually enough to get the plant started there. They will send out roots from wherever the stem is touching the ground and root itself. If you would like to ensure that the plant will start there, you can add a very thin covering of soil.
You can break off one of the stems for taller varieties and push it into the ground where you would like to grow it. The stem will root very easily, and a new plant will be established in a season or two.
Learn more at How to Grow and Care for Sedum.
Origin
This succulent is an intergeneric hybrid resulting from the cross between Sedum cuspidatum and Echeveria setosa var. ciliata. According to information on the Sedum Society, this is an older hybrid that went unnamed until Jean-Michel Moullec published the name in the January 2006 Sedum Society Newsletter (No. 7), honoring his Italian friend Letizia Alleruzzo. However, it is speculated that the plant likely originated from Fred Wass, a British cactus and succulent collector.
Links
- Back to nothogenus ×Sedeveria
- Succulentopedia: Browse succulents by Scientific Name, Common Name, Genus, Family, USDA Hardiness Zone, Origin, or cacti by Genus
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