Party Dress ‘파티 드레스’
A hybrid by Dick Wright, California, 1962.
Established: Carruthers & Ginns, Echeverias - A guide to cultivation and identification: 99, t.5. (before June) 1973.
Nomenclatural standard: Photo by Dick Wright in Carruthers & Ginns, Echeverias - A guide to cultivation and identification: t.5. 1973. Designated here and shown above.
First description: This is a vigorous growing hybrid, the leaves loosely arranged in a 30cm. rosette on a short stem. They are broad, spatulate, thick and fleshy at the base, undulating with crenulate margins edged red. The leaves are a glaucous blue tinged with pink, occasionally flecked with white on the reverse.
Photo Horace Kennewell, taken pre-1982.
Description by Dick Wright, 13 Dec 2013:
It is a vigorous F1 hybrid from the wild species E.rosea grande and a very inbred plant of professor H.M.Butterfield's strain. The leaves are as broad as they are long : 3 to 4 inches = 75 to 100 mm. The rosettes will have between 20 to 30 leaves and will grow to 12 and 18 inches = 30 to 40 cm in diameter. The leaf margins are highly crenate-very curly with an ever varying shades of pastel pink. D.W.