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xGraptoveria ‘Haworthioides’ (Gossot) Rowley
Echeveria ‘Haworthioides’ Gossot
(Notre Vallée, N°22, Aug.- Dec. 1936, pp.19-24)
Echeveria à forme d’Haworthia (Echeveria agavoides Lem. X E. Weinbergii Rose = Echeveria agavoides x Graptopetalum paraguayense)
Obtained at Corbeil 1934
Rosette : usually single, regular, rounded – star-shaped, rather loose, in dimension in between the parents.
Stem: plant first acaulescent, later slowly developing a short stem which will never get tall.
Leaves: not very numerous, fairly large, glabrous, thick and fleshy, oblong, broadest at the middle of the leaf, acuminate, not aristate, only slightly carinate, beneath convex, above flat or slightly concave, green, sometimes reddish tinged and with red dots, on the surface very thin, dense markings composed of small brilliant white points, not pruinose.
Inflorescences: not numerous, emerging from the upper part of the rosette, erect or oblique, not curved at the top, simple, with only few small bracts with a whitish tooth at base, blunt; 8 – 15 cm tall, greenish, not pruinose.
Flowering time: May – June.
Flowers: fairly numerous, up to more than ten; irregular corymb, sometimes 2 flowers per pedicel; pedicel 4 -10 mm long. Caliyx with 5 sepals, appressed, equal, triangular elongated, 5 mm long, same green colour as leaves. Corolla with 5 petals, only slightly thick, erect, not spreading, only slightly opened, not recurved at apex, not imbricate, keeled, of medium width, 12 mm long, slightly greenish light yellow, margins slightly pink outside, brighter yellow inside. Stamen sterile. Carpel 5-parted, fairly convex, yellow and pink. Style greenish.
Plant sterile.
Interesting hybrid. The leaves resemble those of the parents, the rosette is more flattened than with E. agavoides but fairly similar. The stem remains short. The flowers resemble those of E. Weinbergii and not those of E. agavoides; their pale yellow colour is fairly new in this genus and a surprise. The general appearance has some similarity with a Haworthia, hence the name haworthioides, which however is mainly pointing to the similarity with E. agavoides, its mother…
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