The Latest Addition to The Garden

hijole

11 years ago

Just picked this beauty at my local farmers market this morning on my way to work.

Anyone know the name?

Greg

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Beachplants
11 years ago
What about Echeveria cante or lilacina?

Beautiful plant.
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11 years ago
Looks cante-ish, or perhaps 'Afterglow', which is an offspring of cante.

Growing conditions can produce white white white cantes, bluer cantes, bluer 'Afterglow' shady, regular water), or really lavender-pink 'Afterglow' (drier, sunnier). Once you have it a while it might be more apparent what it is. 'Afterglow' much more common, that's probably what it is.

Foliage the wrong shape for lilacina.

Yes, beautiful plant. You got a good one. I need to shop at your farmer's market.
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wantonamara Z8 CenTex
11 years ago
I think the leaves are the wrong shape for Cante or "Afterglow", but I could be wrong. Their leaves are pointed with a red edge and cuped with a definite V shape to the cup.

I got this one , Un named at the nursery but I recognized the cante-ish heritage. I think it is 'afterglow" . My picture is of it backlit in the setting sun. It has gone very purple because of the intense Texas morning sun That it gets from sunrise to 1.

Whatever it is, it is a gorgious echeveria that you have .

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rosemariero6
11 years ago
I agree, it does seem to be an Echeveria, but I have never seen one with stripes as yours seems to have, Greg. Lovely plant! It does not look like any I know. How wide is the rosette?
hijole
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11 years ago
Ok, thanks for responding guys because it's actually a nice size, it's around the size of a circomfrence of 2ft. wide and he had one that was about 3ft circomfrence WOW! yeah I'm serious, I paid $25. for it and the bigger one he wanted $40.

The picture is on the front porch step and I think I'll take a picture next to a dime 10 cents so we can see just how LARGE this baby really is.

Rosemarie, I almost threw it on the L Class spieces but wasnt sure what I had on my hands so I held off so thanks for peeking into this new addition to my garden.

Greg
hijole
Original Author
11 years ago
Wantonmara , forgot to say nice looking plant you have there too, but mine is a little different in color and size mine is like a dove grey with thin redish margins in the ends and it is larger. When I first saw it I thought, wow, I never saw that one before and I tried to negotiate which it always seems to work with this vendor but not on this plant he wouldn't budge, maybe he could see I was head over heals for her or something

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hijole
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11 years ago
Good morning, here is the picture of the same plant sitting next to a quarter , is this LARGE or what?

Greg
hijole
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11 years ago
Looking at a site with pictures along with the size I think I've narrowed it down to Echeveveria Cante which they say it can get up to two ft. in diameter (thats it !!)

So it doesnt quality for the L class however it should fit perfectly in the C class :)

Greg
greenman28 NorCal 7b/8a
11 years ago
That is massive, Greg! ;-)

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