Echeveria x 'Candy Wright'
D.
Wright
Described in Les Carruthers 1973 plant list as
"slow growing, one of the more compact and distinctive plants, with leaves
broad and forming close, 8" dia, wavy, rosettes of burnt pink and the
leaf margins a darker pink".
The description of this plant I find slightly
different to my plant, is that mine forms a quick growing stem but otherwise
is identical.
This plant is a typical Californian hybrid with a large colourful, frilly
edged, rosette on top of a fast growing stem. This year (2003) my plant has
produced a 9" (23 cm dia. rosette.
Beheading the rosette is advisable every other year, which quickly produces
roots in warm conditions during early summer - then making a compact plant
again.
An added bonus is the bright flowers which contrast well with the leaves.
So many of these American hybrids have flowers more or less the same colour
as the leaves.
