Echeveria chinensis
ConnyNL (The Netherlands, 8b)
7 years ago
I picked up this Echeveria this week. It looked like a giant purpusorum to me (a lot bigger than I'd ever seen before anyway), and the buds were a huge bonus. When I got home I saw the label says Echeveria chinensis. Is this a different species, or just the name of a giant purpusorum?
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoWell, now. This thread had me going up and down trying to sort the two out. I know purpusorum has different looks but the chinensis is distinct for how fast it grows.
My own E. purpusorum now looks like this:
It took a dive this winter so I decided to behead it. Now, as it recovers, it's splitting into two and growing another rosette underneath.
Then I got this one last week from Lowe's:
if the literature is correct,I'll know if one of them is a chinensis, based on growth rate. I know my original purpusorum is slow, going from this in 2014
To this in 2015
And this in 2016, more leaves but still compact.
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