Chiba University Matsudo/Kashiwa Campus Plant Database

Details of genus: Echeveria DC. [1062]

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# spp.: 206

pub_year: 1828

accepted: Accepted

Family: Crassulaceae

family_ja: ベンケイソウ

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distribution_en: S. Texas to NW. Argentina

description_en: Genus of about 150 species of evergreen succulents and evergreen, occasionally deciduous subshrubs found in dry, often semi-desert areas in Texas, USA, Mexico, and from Central America to the Andes. The often spectacularly colourful leaves, usually in rosettes, are fleshy, alternate, and may be linear to cylindrical, spoon-shaped, or broadly triangular. The flowers have erect or spreading petal lobes, often slightly spreading at the tips or constricted at the mouths, and occasionally angled or keeled tubes. They are borne in racemes, cymes, or panicles, on long stalks from the leaf axils. In frost-prone areas, grow as houseplants or in a temperate greenhouse. Compact species may be used as annuals in carpet bedding. In warmer climates, plant outdoors in a border with other succulents.

hardiness_en: Frost tender.

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propagation_en: Sow seed at 16-19°C (61-66°F) as soon as ripe. Root stem or leaf cuttings in late spring, or separate offsets in spring.

pests_en: Prone to greenfly, vine weevil larvae, and mealybugs.

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comment:

comment_ja: 錦晃星(キンコウセイ)

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Update Information: Created: 2007-12-06 12:51; Updated: 2025-06-12 09:57 by hkokubun@mac.com

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