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 :

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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