Scientific Name
Sempervivum arachnoideum 'Emily'
Synonym(s)
Sempervivum 'Emily'
Scientific Classification
Family: Crassulaceae
Subfamily: Sedoideae
Tribe: Sedeae
Subtribe: Sedinae
Genus: Sempervivum
Description
Sempervivum arachnoideum 'Emily', also sold as Sempervivum 'Cotton Candy' Chick Charms®, is a beautiful succulent that forms delicate rosettes of green and red leaves, lightly visible through heavily webbed cilia. The rosettes can reach a diameter of 3 inches (7.5 cm) and produce numerous offsets each spring, creating a dense clump.
The flowers are small, star-shaped, pink, and appear in clusters on leafy stalks in summer.
Origin
Sempervivum arachnoideum 'Emily' is a cultivar of Sempervivum arachnoideum selected by Gustaaf van der Steen (Belgium).
Hardiness
USDA hardiness zone 4a to 10b: from −30 °F (−34.4 °C) to 40 °F (+4.4 °C).
How to Grow and Care
Because of the variability of Cobweb Houseleek, they easily adapt to the local conditions, and due to the small gene pool, they become a form or variety quite quickly, perfectly adapted to the local conditions of heat and cold as well as the amount of snow or rain and at which times of the year.
Relatively easy to grow in a container or a rock garden, scree bed, wall crevice, trough, or alpine house. They are ideal in so many ways, as they quickly start to form very tight clusters of rosettes, filling in Sempervivum walls, mosaics, and topiary, and their shallow yet fibrous root systems hold soil in place even in vertical plantings. After the plant blooms and sets seed, it will die, but many offsets will take its place.
Plant in well-drained succulent soil mix in full sun to light shade. Water regularly during the growing season and allow the soil to dry out before watering again. Water very little during the winter months.
See more at How to Grow and Care for Sempervivum.
Links
- Back to genus Sempervivum
- Succupedia: Browse succulents by Scientific Name, Common Name, Genus, Family, USDA Hardiness Zone, Origin, or cacti by Genus
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