Sedum lucidum 'obesum' f.cristata

Common Names include:
CHINESE (中文): 丸叶松绿
KOREAN (한국어): 환엽송록

 

Description: Sedum lucidum is a hairless perennial succulent shrub to 20 cm high and has distinctive rosettes of very fat, lustrous, green leaves edged in red in bright light. The other thick-leaved species of Sedum of the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt have leaves which are glaucous or dull green. It produces pretty little white flowers in winter.
Sedum lucidum “obesum”: This is a selected form with fatter, rounder, glossy green leaves that take on an awesome cherry-red colour in full sun. It is a compact very smooth and shining succulent form, originally distributed as ISI 1497 in 1984 by the the Huntington Botanical Gardens. In all other characteristics, namely size and shape, flowers, fruits, roots etc. it is very similar to the standard species.
Stems: Erect to prostrate, up to 20(-45) cm long, 4-5 mm in diameter, reluctant to drop basal leaves, later naked, grey or reddish, green when young.
Roots: Fibrous.
Rosettes: Tight, at the end of stems, 5-4.5 cm across with ca. 19 leaves.
Leaves: Alternate, elliptic to oblanceolate or spathulate, stalkless, acute to obtuse, (1.4-)2.5-2.7(-5) cm long, 1-1.9 cm thick, smooth, dark green with pink in them, shining (especially young leaves) ca. 5 cm long, 5-8 mm thick. Upper face flat or convex, lover face convex. Apex rounded. Margin entire.
Inflorescences: Tight pleiochasial cymes (cymes with three or more lateral axes) up to 7.5 cm long reddish to greenish, sprouting out of the ends of the stems, with glossy bracts and sepals. Flowering branches 1-3, 3.5-4.5 cm long. Bracts of peduncle 5-9 alternate, appressed, oblanceolate 4.5 cm long, 2.4 cm broad and up to 1 cm thick persistent green reddish at apex. Bracteoles oblong-lanceolate, ca 5.5 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, pale green, acuminate. Pedicels, short less than 7 mm long, and 1 mm in diameter, slightly turbinate, pale green, usually with small bracteoles. The bracts turn bright colours making the overall blossom colour appear pink.
Flowers: White, yellow-centred, with musky scent, 9-11mm across. Sepals free, lanceolate, ca 2.7 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, apex pointed. Petals white, lanceolate or elliptic-oblong, obtuse or acute 5 mm long, 2.6 mm wide, slightly channelled in the middle. Stamens 10, white, approx 4.6 mm long. Anthers yellows. Carpels 2.4 mm high, 0.9 mm wide, pale green. Style 1.1 mm long, pale green.
Blooming season: Late autumn to early spring.
Seeds: Numerous.

Sedum lucidum obesum (llifle.com)

 

sedum lucidum 'obesum' f.cristata