Botanical Name: Echeveria imbricata
Common Name: Hens and chicks
Type of Plant: dicot: perennial
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape small, rosette-shaped succulent with numerous side offshoots and rosy pink flowers set high above blue-green foliage
Height 3 to 6"
Spread to 1' or more
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoor full sun to light shade
Soil prefers a coarse, fast-draining sandy soil
Hardiness some frost – Zones 8,9,12 - 24
 
Morphology:
Leaves glaucous to 1" across arranged in tight rosettes, leaf tips are mucronate, about 50 leaves per 4" rosette – foliage color blue green to lavender
Flowers loose spikes of orange-pink flowers – overall spike to 12" long flowers are 1/2" long individually
Fruit small fleshy capsule
 
Propagation:
offsets, leaf cuttings
 
Usage:
good in rock gardens, mixed with other succulents, excellent in containers, tropical or desert-theme landscapes, small scale gardens
 
Landscape Care:
Watering prefers deep, infrequent watering; do not allow to become water logged in heavy soils
Fertilizing balanced, half-strength fertilizer in spring
Pruning remove dead flower shoots, dead leaves from older rosettes
Pests/Diseases root rot when drainage is poor
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: Hybrids – parents probably from Mexico
Family: Crassulaceae

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