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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: meanie on September 30, 2014, 08:18:14 PM

Title: Succulent id appeciated
Post by: meanie on September 30, 2014, 08:18:14 PM

Any ideas?
(https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3884/15170771490_ecb9206e0e_c.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_0289a.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_0290.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_0291.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_0292.jpg)

(http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g430/longk48/DSC_0294.jpg)

Thanks for looking.

Title: Re: Succulent id appeciated
Post by: Anthony Darby on October 01, 2014, 12:52:22 AM

Looks like something that grows in our garden, no thanks to me, but this one seems to be a bit etiolated as the flowering stem can't make up its mind what it should be.

Title: Re: Succulent id appeciated
Post by: Gerdk on October 01, 2014, 06:33:44 AM

Seems to be an (etiolated) Echeveria species.

Gerd

Title: Re: Succulent id appeciated
Post by: meanie on October 01, 2014, 06:44:48 PM

Thanks chaps!
It is a puzzler. Grown in full sun, yet the stem does seem rather long. And the way that the flowers form in clusters at points along it too.
I know that Echeveria are promiscuous and wonder if it some inter generic hybrid?

Title: Re: Succulent id appeciated
Post by: johnw on October 04, 2014, 02:42:47 PM

Badly etiolated as mentioned but check it against the first photo under Echeveria zahnii set #33.

http://wap.ourflo.ru/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4089 (http://wap.ourflo.ru/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4089)

I suspect only selected forms are commonly grown if it is indeed this one.

johnw

Title: Re: Succulent id appeciated
Post by: Anthony Darby on October 04, 2014, 11:01:39 PM

Here are two clumps, not sure if they are the same species, in the garden. The first grows under some lollipop bushes in facing east and gets morning sun and the second faces north grows in full sun.

Title: Re: Succulent id appeciated
Post by: meanie on October 06, 2014, 08:26:12 AM

Quote from: johnw on October 04, 2014, 02:42:47 PM

Badly etiolated as mentioned but check it against the first photo under Echeveria zahnii set #33.

http://wap.ourflo.ru/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4089 (http://wap.ourflo.ru/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=4089)

I suspect only selected forms are commonly grown if it is indeed this one.

johnw

Thanks John - that's as close as I've seen. L It looks close enough for me to to research winter care which was my main issue really.
I appreciate the link - there are some absolute gems there! E.rosea (#29) was particularly outstanding.E.longissima (#18) has long been on my wish list.

Quote from: Anthony Darby on October 04, 2014, 11:01:39 PM

Here are two clumps. Not sure if they are the same species in the garden. The first grows under some lollipop bushes in facing east and gets morning sun and the second faces north grows in full sun.

Looks like what I grow as E.elegans. A thoroughly rampant species even in the UK, although it loathes our winter wet. I can get it to survive but it will be knocked back to just one or two rosettes.

On the subject of the etiolation, I wonder if some species need more sun than the UK can offer in the growing season? This was in full sun in a good'ish (for us anyway) summer.