Echeveria elegans 'Albicans'

Origin and Habitat: Mexico, without definite locality.

Synonyms:

• Echeveria albicans E.Walther

Description: Echeveria albicans is one of the varieties of Echeveria elegans which is a somewhat variable taxon with several collected extreme forms that were early published as full species or as varieties, but these were too weak botanically to stand, so they are all combined in Echeveria elegans. It is a stemless, compact, clumping echeveria distinguished from the type by very thick, pale olive to white pruinose leaves in tight rosettes, about 10 cm across; some look like alabaster roses. The name Echeveria albicans is not accepted by many botanists that treat it as synonym, but it still has a value for a collector because they identify plants with particular characters. This species has long been one of the most popular with collectors and in nurseries and gardens.

Rosettes: Stem-less, glabrous, about 10 cm across, ultimately caespitose.
Leaves: Closely imbricated in bud, crowded, obovate oblong, obtuse to truncate, 3-5 cm long, 15-25 mm wide, thickest just below the tip, upcurved, with a small mucro, conspicuously pruinose, edges white somewhat translucent.
Inflorescence (raceme): Cincinnate, simple, rarely bifid, up to 25 cm long. Scape with sharp, apressed, lance-shaped leaves, 8-15 mm long. Pedicels 14 mm long.
Flowers: Sepals unequal, deltoid linear-oblong, acute, up to 10 mm long. Corolla broadly conoid to urceolate, 14-18 mm long and 10-12 mm in diameter at base, begonia-red or pink, to old-rose at base, greenish to light-yellow-green at apex, inside at apex oil-yellow. Nectaries, yellow.
Chromosome number: n = 120-130.

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