Brudburg Van Keppel ‘부룻버그’

Syn.: Brudburgii (n.ill.), in “Liste des plantes grasses des Cèdres”, 1949.

Short description : “Rosette acaulescent, 10-15 cm diameter, offsetting at the base; 30-50 leaves, 5 – 10 cm long, 1 – 1,5 cm wide, 0,5 cm thick, oblong, acuminate, ventrally flat to slightly convex, dorsally convex; inflorescence 25 cm long, reddish green, upright; Corolla salmon-pink at base, upper part and inside yellow, apex reddish.”

Echeveria ‘Brudburg’  van Keppel   nov. cv.

By J.C. van Keppel

I have got this Echeveria hybrid indirectly via the South of France. It has a regular grey-green rosette. In the Liste des Plantes Grasses 1949:24 of the Botanical Garden of Les Cèdres, St. Jean-Cap-Ferrat, where the plant presumably comes from, it is mentioned as Echeveria Brudburgii L. Cass?, though without any description. This name is invalid. In order to save this name – which can be found in numerous collections – I here describe the plant as Echeveria cv ‘Brudburg’ – omitting the two “ ii “ - thus not offending against nomenclatural rules.
I have not been able to find any information concerning the origin of this hybrid neither did I succeed in producing it myself. I am certain that Echeveria elegans has been a part in this crossing, but I have not been able to trace the other parent. Possibly this is not a F 1 hybrid. Echeveria ‘Brudburg’ is – as far as I have seen – sterile, but it is offsetting at the base.
Echeveria ‘Bradburyana’ – an US hybrid – differs clearly from E. ‘Brudburg’ in having small rosettes on short stems; it is related to E. ‘Graessneri’ (E. derenbergii x E. pulvinata).

Echeveria cv ‘Brudburg’ van Keppel nov.cv.

Parents and breeder unknown. Type: No. 6316. coll. Van K.

Rosette: acaulescent or with a short stem, 10 – 15 cm in diameter, often offsetting at the base.

Leaves: glabrous, 30 – 50, dense rosette, first upcurved, later spreading to recurved, 5 – 10 cm long, 1 – 1,5 cm wide, 0,5 cm thick, oblong, acuminate, ventrally flat to slightly convex, dorsally convex, slightly narrowing towards base; colour dull green, but so strongly pruinose that it looks like grey-green, sometimes reddish tinged, tips acute, red, leaf margins translucent white, glabrous, sometimes with short tips at lateral margins.

Inflorescence: 25 cm long, reddish green, upright; bracts mostly numerous, 1 – 2 cm long, appressed, with a broad, dentate spur. Flower disposition: simple or double cincinnus with 5 -6 well spaced flowers, first nodding, upright when faded.

Corolla salmon-pink at base, upper part and inside yellow, apex reddish, almost not spreading, 13 mm long, 10 mm wide; after flowering the tops of the petals are contracted and the spent flowers become triangular. Sepals large, reddish, unequal in length, spreading or recurved, up to 1,5 cm long. Pedicel 1 -3 cm long, sometimes with 2 bracts up to 9 mm long, but mostly without any. Carpel and style green.

Flowering time: May.

(Translated from the Dutch by Margrit Bischofberger)