Echeveria

ROSEA  Lindley, 1842 (engl./ fr.)

Synonyms :

Courantia echeverioides  Lemaire (1851)

Courantia rosea  Lemaire (1853)

Cotyledon rosea  (Lindley) Baker (1869) / Courantia rosea  (Lindley) Britton & Rose (1903)

Cotyledon roseata  Baker (1869)

Echeveria chiapensis  Rose ex von Poellnitz (1936)

Echeveria omiltemiana  Matuda (1963)

 

Series Spicatae

 

Type : Mexico, Anonymous, s.n.

 

Etymology : for the rose-coloured sepals.

 

Distribution : Mexico (Hidalgo, Puebla, San Luis Potosí, Veracruz, Guerrero, Oaxaca, Chiapas); usually epiphytic in cloud forests.

 

First Description by Lindley in Edwards's Botanical Register 28: t. 22. 1842 :

Link to short descriptions in English and French.

Plants in habitat in Oaxaca :

Photos Catherine Phillips

Photos © Ralph Mangelsdorff
Photos Mieke Geuens

 

Not necessarily growing epiphytic ...
Ne poussant pas forcément en épiphyte...

Photos Gerhard Köhres

In cultivation :

Photo Stefan Neuwirth

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