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Echeveria lindsayana E
Walther.
Named for
Dr George Lindsay by Walther in 1959.
A highly succulent plant with very
colourful leaves, but a lax inflorescence of long, slender stems with
small bunches of 5/17 pinkish flowers, orange inside, on the trailing
end
of the flower stems.
There appears to be several clones of this plant, mine appears to be
one of the free offsetting types. Some of the other clones have no offsets
at all but make a larger single rosette. The central rosette on this
plant has reached 18 cm Ø at the time of re-writing (22/01/04).
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CULTIVATION: is a little difficult use
a well drained C & S compost in very good light and keep well ventilated.
Watering should be carried out with great care from the bottom, in winter
hardly any water at all. Minimum temperatures 4º C.
PROPAGATION: can be by leaf cuttings if they can be extracted whole
(not so easy). Offsets from this clone are easy to take but need a long
time to establish. There is no possibility of using the flowering stem
on my clone, as it is thin and flimsy with no bracts.
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