Echeveria elegans
Template:Short description Template:Speciesbox
Echeveria elegans, the Mexican snow ball, God's Throne, Mexican gem or white Mexican rose is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to semi-desert habitats in Mexico.
Description
Echeveria elegans is a succulent evergreen perennial growing to Script error: No such module "convert". tall by Script error: No such module "convert". wide, with tight rosettes of pale green-blue fleshy leaves, bearing Script error: No such module "convert". long slender pink stalks of pink flowers with yellow tips in winter and spring.[1]
Cultivation
Echeveria elegans is cultivated as an ornamental plant for rock gardens planting, or as a potted plant. It thrives in subtropical climates, such as Southern California.
It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[2]
Like others of its kind, it produces multiple offsets which can be separated from the parents in spring, and grown separately - hence the common name "hen and chicks", applied to several species within the genus Echeveria.[1]
Etymology
Echeveria is named for Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy, a botanical illustrator who contributed to Flora Mexicana.[3]
Elegans means 'elegant' or 'graceful'.[3]
References
Script error: No such module "Side box". Script error: No such module "Side box".
<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />
- ↑ a b Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ Script error: No such module "citation/CS1".
- ↑ a b Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. Template:ISBN (hardback), Template:ISBN (paperback). pp. 149, 151
Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Attila Kapitany, (2009). Knowing Echeverias, Cactus and Succulent Journal, Volume 81 Issue 2.