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Echeveria
Echeveria rosette guides — cultivars, propagation, and seasonal care.
The Complete Echeveria Guide: Identification, Cultivation & Propagation
Comprehensive guide to the genus Echeveria: taxonomy, identification, light and watering needs, propagation, pruning, and common problems, with links to species and cultivar guides.
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Echeveria Crown Rot: Saving a Rosette When the Centre Turns Mushy
Soft, brown, or translucent tissue at the growing point of an Echeveria rosette is crown rot — the most time-critical succulent emergency. Learn to recognise it early, cut to clean tissue, and prevent recurrence.
Echeveria Leaves Wrinkled: Drought, Roots, Heat and Rot
Wrinkled Echeveria leaves usually mean stored water is being used, but the cause can be drought, dead roots, summer heat, or root rot.
Echeveria Not Flowering: Light, Maturity, and Seasonal Cues
An Echeveria that will not flower is usually immature, under-lit, or lacking the seasonal temperature shift that triggers bud initiation. Correct light and a cool winter rest resolve most cases within one season.
Echeveria Stretched and Leggy: Why It Happens and What to Do
A leggy Echeveria is etiolated from insufficient light. Learn how to stop new stretching, when to behead, and how to prevent repeat growth.
Echeveria Edema: What Those Blisters and Corky Patches Mean
Raised blisters and corky patches on Echeveria leaves are plant edema, an overwatering symptom not a disease. Correct watering frequency and drainage to stop new damage; existing scars are permanent.
Echeveria Bloomed — Now What? Post-Flower Rosette Care
Echeveria are polycarpic and the rosette does not die after flowering. Cut the spent scape at the base, manage any post-bloom rosette changes, and resume normal care to encourage annual re-blooming.
Echeveria Leaves Turning Yellow: Causes and Recovery
Yellow Echeveria leaves can be normal senescence, over-watering, root rot, drought, low light, or nutrient stress. Use texture and location to choose the right fix.
Echeveria Mealybug Treatment: Remove Pests Without Damaging the Rosette
Mealybugs hide in Echeveria leaf axils and roots. Treat visible insects with alcohol swabs, isolate plants, inspect roots, and repeat weekly.
Aphids on Echeveria: Identify, Treat, and Prevent Infestations
Aphids target Echeveria flower scapes and new leaf growth, causing distortion, honeydew, and secondary mould. Identify them early, treat with alcohol or water, and remove infested scapes promptly.
Echeveria Spots on Leaves: Sunburn, Edema, Pests and Disease
Spots on Echeveria leaves may be permanent sunburn, edema, pest damage, fungal disease, farina loss, or mechanical scarring. Diagnose by texture and spread.
Echeveria derenbergii (Painted Lady): Profile & Care
Profile of Echeveria derenbergii, the Painted Lady: tight grey rosettes with red leaf tips, prolific offsetting, and bicolour orange and yellow bell flowers.
Echeveria purpusorum: Profile & Care
Profile of Echeveria purpusorum: tight 5 to 8 cm rosettes of triangular dark green leaves with red-purple speckling, a slow-growing Puebla limestone species.
Echeveria secunda (Mexican Hens-and-Chicks): Profile & Care
Profile of Echeveria secunda, the Mexican hens-and-chicks: the most cold-hardy soft Echeveria, with notes on identification, cultivation, and clumping habit.
Echeveria 'Black Prince' (Hybrid): Profile & Care
Profile of Echeveria 'Black Prince', the Frank Reinelt hybrid of E. shaviana and E. affinis, with notes on identification, cultivation, and lookalikes.
Echeveria cante (White Cloud Echeveria): Care
Profile of Echeveria cante: large pruinose rosettes with red margins, the most fragile leaf bloom in the genus, and the cultivation choices that protect it.
Echeveria nodulosa (Painted Echeveria): Profile & Care
Profile of Echeveria nodulosa, Painted Echeveria: identify red-purple markings, grow compact plants, and propagate leaves or stem cuttings reliably at home.
Echeveria agavoides (Lipstick Echeveria): Care & Cultivar Notes
Species profile of Echeveria agavoides: identification, cultivation, and a cultivar guide to Lipstick, Romeo Rubin, Ebony, Red Edge, and Lipstick Christmas.
Echeveria shaviana (Mexican Hens): Profile & Care
Profile of Echeveria shaviana, Mexican Hens: identify frilly lavender-grey leaves, grow compact rosettes, and propagate leaves or offsets reliably at home.
Echeveria 'Romeo Rubin' (Hybrid): Profile & Care
Profile of Echeveria 'Romeo Rubin', the deep ruby-red E. agavoides hybrid cultivar, with notes on hybrid origin, identification, cultivation, and propagation.
Echeveria harmsii (Plush Plant): Profile & Care
Echeveria harmsii care: identify the velvet plush plant, manage its branching shrub habit, large bicolour red flowers, propagate reliably from stem cuttings.
Echeveria setosa (Mexican Firecracker): Care, Trichomes & Cultivars
Care profile for Echeveria setosa, the Mexican Firecracker: identify bristly trichomes, manage watering, compare forms, and propagate safely at home.
Echeveria 'Lola' (Hybrid): Profile & Care
Profile of Echeveria 'Lola', the Dick Wright hybrid of E. derenbergii and E. lilacina, with notes on identification, cultivation, and how to tell it apart.
Echeveria laui: Care for a Slow-Growing Powder-Coated Rose
Field profile of Echeveria laui, the slowest pruinose rosette of the genus, with cultivation and handling notes that protect its fragile ceramic wax bloom.
Echeveria Stress Coloring: Sun, Cold, Drought and Pigments
Stress coloring in Echeveria comes from anthocyanin and carotenoid pigments. Trigger it with bright light, cool nights, and drought; reverse it with care.
Echeveria subrigida: Profile & Care
Profile of Echeveria subrigida, the hot-margined cliff rosette of central Mexico, with diagnostics against cante, laui, peacockii, and cultivation notes.
Echeveria lilacina (Ghost Echeveria): Identification & Care
Profile of Echeveria lilacina Kimnach & R.Moran, the ghost echeveria: pale-lavender rosettes, slow growth, and the conditions that keep the colour true.
Echeveria 'Afterglow': Don Worth's Large Pastel-Pink Hybrid
Profile of Echeveria 'Afterglow', Don Worth's 1980s hybrid of E. cante and E. shaviana: identification, cultivation for best colour, and keeping the clone true.
Echeveria 'The Rose': The Tight-Whorl Cabbage-Form Cultivar
Profile of Echeveria 'The Rose', a compact cabbage-form Korean hybrid cultivar with tightly whorled pink-tipped leaves: identification, cultivation, and propagation.
Echeveria runyonii 'Topsy Turvy': Identification, Care & Propagation
Profile of Echeveria runyonii Rose ex E.Walther and the 'Topsy Turvy' sport: recognising inverted leaves, cultivation, and reliable leaf propagation.
Echeveria pulidonis: Red-Edged Compact Rosettes
Profile of Echeveria pulidonis E.Walther: the compact Oaxacan species with red-edged spoon leaves, its cultivation needs and reliable leaf propagation.
Echeveria 'Perle von Nürnberg': Care, Colour & Propagation
Profile of Echeveria 'Perle von Nürnberg', Richard Graessner's 1930s hybrid of E. gibbiflora 'Metallica' and E. elegans: keeping the pink-purple colour and propagating true.
Echeveria desmetiana (E. peacockii): Identification & Care
Profile of Echeveria desmetiana De Smet ex É.Morren, the silver-blue species long sold as E. peacockii: identification, cultivation, and the nomenclature confusion.
Echeveria elegans (Mexican Snowball): Care, Identification & Propagation
Field-guide profile of Echeveria elegans Rose, the Mexican snowball: how to tell it from lookalikes, cultivation notes specific to this species, and reliable propagation.
Echeveria Losing Bottom Leaves: Causes & Fixes
How to distinguish normal basal leaf senescence in Echeveria from over-watering, under-watering, root rot, etiolation, and pest damage, with targeted fixes.
Echeveria agavoides Propagation: Leaf, Offset & Seed Methods
Practical propagation of Echeveria agavoides (Lem.) Walp. by leaf, offset, stem cutting, and seed, with species-specific notes on what works and what fails.
Echeveria gibbiflora: The Large-Leaved Parent of Many Hybrids
Profile of Echeveria gibbiflora DC., the largest-rosetted Mexican species and parent of many widely grown cultivars: identification, care, and its role in hybridisation.