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Echeveria secunda Booth ex Lindl.
Edwards's Bot. Reg. 24(Misc.): 59 1838
Family: CRASSULACEAE

Echeveria secunda Photo by: Amante Darmanin
(fa. secunda) about 20 km East from San Luis de La Paz, Guanajuato.

Synonyms:

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Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Old hen-and-chickens, Hen and chickens, Blue Echeveria, Glaucous Echeveria
ESTONIAN (Eesti): Sinihall soomuslehik
POLISH ( Polski): Eszeweria błękitna

Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Echeveria secunda group

  • Echeveria secunda Booth ex Lindl.: has clustering pale bluish-green rosette. The inflorescence is a one-sided arching cyme to 30cm tall, with urn-shaped red and yellow tipped, nodding flowers. Distribution: Mexico.
  • Echeveria secunda var. byrnesii (Rose) Poelln.
  • Echeveria secunda var. glauca (Baker) Otto: has thinner leaves, to 2 cm across, more glaucous, scarcely keeled, almost flat, truncate to rounded, distinctly flaccid and still a lighter more glaucous-blue.
  • Echeveria secunda var. major hort.: is a larger mealy form of var. glauca.
  • Echeveria secunda var. pumila (Van Houtte) Otto: is a smaller form, with leaves to 1.5 cm across, narrow, thin and scarcely keeled, almost flat and acute that are of the colour of var. major.

27937 carolina Carolina González
Echeveria secunda Photo by: Carolina González
21329 star Forest Starr & Kim Starr
Habit at Kula Botanical Garden, Maui, Hawaii (USA). March 07, 2011. Photo by: Forest Starr & Kim Starr

21328 star Forest Starr & Kim Starr
Habit at Kula Botanical Garden, Maui, Hawaii (USA). March 07, 2011. Photo by: Forest Starr & Kim Starr
28879 amante Amante Darmanin
Echeveria secunda fa. secunda about 20 km East from San Luis de La Paz, Guanajuato. Photo by: Amante Darmanin

21331 star Forest Starr & Kim Starr
Habit at Sacred Garden of Maliko, Maui, Hawaii (USA). January 24, 2011. Photo by: Forest Starr & Kim Starr
23412 carolina Carolina González
Echeveria secunda Photo by: Carolina González

21330 star Forest Starr & Kim Starr
Habit at Kula Botanical Garden, Maui, Hawaii (USA). March 07, 2011. Photo by: Forest Starr & Kim Starr
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