Echeveria

Form #2

Origin : Tachira, a canyon on the south side of the Río La Grita, 1300 m.

In the wild, Form #2 differs from most other Venezuelan echeverias in its shiny, olive-brown, rather trough-shaped leaves, but the brown color is much weaker in my plants grown in cultivation.

 

Description by Ch. Uhl in Cactus and Succulent Journal US 65 (2): 83-84. 1993 :

Stems a bit weak and decumbent, up to about 40 cm tall and branched at the base.

Leaves 25 - 35 along the upper 10 cm or so of the stem, shiny and not at all glaucous, olive-brown to brown, grooved to hollowed above, oblanceolate and up to 50 mm, occasionally to 80 mm long, 27 mm wide and 5 mm thick at the base of the petiole, thinner in the blade.

Bracts up to 22 x 6 mm, progressively smaller upward and recurved.

Pedicels up to 5 mm long, but mostly shorter, diminishing upward, borne directly in the axils of the bracts and bearing two bracteoles that are up to 8 mm long.

Sepals are nearly equal, 5 - 7 mm long, 2 - 3 mm wide, and almost fully spreading at anthesis.

Corolla is pentagonal, with flat side, 12 mm long, pale orange outside, darkening with age, and pale yellow inside.

Stigmas are green.

 

Photos Charles Uhl in Cactus and Succulent Journal US 65(2):83. 1993

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