Echeveria 'Orpet' has cup-shaped silvery blue-green leaves that form rosettes with pink flowers.
Description:
Echeveria 'Orpet' forms lovely rosettes of thick, upward facing cupped and spade-shaped leaves of silvery-blue. In full sun or with a little water stress, the margins may flush in vibrant pink to peach tones. A low growing clumper five inches high by six inches wide will, overtime, form attractive colonies of rosettes. A drought tolerant tender succulent that requires protection from frost and cold. Will happily occupy a sunny windowsill during Canadian winters.
Common Name: Echeveria
Family: Crassulaceae (The Stonecrop Family)
Zone Hardiness: 9-11
Light: Full Sun, Part Sun, Part Shade
Height: under 4"
Width: under 4"
Primary Bloom Colour: Pink
Secondary Bloom Colour: Yellow
Class: Evergreen
Type: Tender
Bloom Time: Summer
Soil Moisture: Dry, Drought Tolerant
Stem Colour:
Fragrance: No
Berries:
Benefits: Hummingbirds
Deer Resistant: Unknown
BC Native: No
Native Habitat: Native Central America Mexico, where they grow in rocky outcroppings on mountain slopes, never allowing the plants to become waterlogged.
Award:
Geogrpahical Origin: Americas - Central and South America
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