Echeveria elegans

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Company : Nainital Floweritech

Echeveria elegans (Mexican Snowball) is a popular, compact, and stemless succulent that forms tight, symmetrical rosettes, typically 5–10 cm tall and up to 50 cm wide, featuring pale blue-green, fleshy, spoon-shaped leaves covered in a powdery, waxy coating (farina). It produces arching, pink flower stalks in winter/spring. 

Key Characteristics and Description:

• Appearance: The plant is known for its "frosted" look due to the white, powdery farina on its leaves, which protects it from sun and dehydration. It forms rosettes of thick, fleshy, spoon-shaped leaves that are pale blue-green or silvery-gray.
• Growth Habit: It is a low-growing, clumping, perennial succulent that often produces numerous offsets or "pups," commonly referred to as "hens and chicks," though it is not a Sempervivum.
• Flowers: In late winter to early spring, it produces pink, slender, arching stalks (about 25 cm long) with pink, bell-shaped flowers tipped with yellow.
• Size: Individual rosettes usually grow up to 15 cm in diameter, though the entire plant can spread wider over time as it clumps.

Care Requirements:

• Light: Thrives in full sun to partial shade. It needs bright light to maintain its compact shape, or it will stretch (etiolate).
• Water: Requires low to average water. Allow the soil to dry out completely between waterings to prevent root rot.
• Soil: Requires fast-draining soil, such as a succulent or cactus mix.
• Hardiness: Generally suitable for USDA Zones 9-11. 

It is highly suitable for containers, rock gardens, and as an indoor, sunny windowsill plant