Echeveria 'Expatriate' cristata

Origin and Habitat: Garden origin (Nursery produced cultivar)

Synonyms:

• Echeveria sp. f. cristata

Description: This is a nice crested Echeveria with beautiful frosted blue leaves.

Cultivation and Propagation: Crested growth: Unlike 'monstrose' varieties of plants, where the variation from normal growth is due to genetic mutation, crested growth can occur on normal plants. Sometimes it's due to variances in light intensity, or damage, but generally the causes are unknown. A crested plant may have some areas growing normally, and a cresting plant that looks like a brain, may revert to normal growth for no apparent reason. If you have any of the crested part left you need to remove the normal growth and leave the crested part behind this will need to be done regularly.

Echeveria sp. f. cristata (llifle.com)