Echeveria bifida Schltdl.
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Origin and Habitat: The species is native to central Mexico in the states of Guanajuato, Tamaulipas, Hidalgo and Queretaro.
Synonyms:
- Echeveria bifida Schltdl.
ENGLISH: Branched Flower Hens and Chicks
Description: Echeveria bifidaSN|25872]]SN|21872]] (Branched Flower Hens and Chicks) is a beautiful pale greyish-brown succulent plant with rosettes of fleshy leaves shaped like a well-filled spindle, slender flower stalks carry nodding bell-shaped flowers . This species is quite variable and perhaps the most difficult to characterize. Echeveria erubescensSN|21872]]SN|25872]], described from cultivation and of unknown origin in the wild probably bengs here.
Habit: It is compact plant with rosettes to 15 to 20 cm wide of up to 15 leaves.
Stem: Usually short, mostly simple.
Leaves: (3,5)5-7,5(-10) cm long, 1,2-2,5 cm wide, lanceolate, oblanceolate to diamond-shaped, pointed. Bristle-tipped pale glaucous-green, pale greyish-brown, lavender-grey or dark brown often tinged red.
Blooming season: Summer.
Inflorescence: 2-branched raceme with 20-30 florets, bracts about 3 cm long many, round in cross-section, the flowering stems rise 25-60 cm above the foliage and gracefully curve and branch with stems and bracts the same colour as the foliage..
Flowers: Large salmon pinkish-orange, with yellow throats that barely flare open near the petal tips and with succulent sepals the same color as the leaves. Sepals to 1 cm long, unequal, rigid. rounded-blunt and spreading. Corolla 1,2 cm long, pink-orange outside, yellow within. Keeled. petals joined for much of their length urn-shaped.
Chromosome number: n = 12
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