Leslie's succulent page 26c

CULTIVATION:
Fairly easy in normal C&S compost with some added slow release fertiliser. In the growing season growth is fairly rapid so repot when the plant outgrows it's container. In the winter, conditions should be just enough water to stop drying out at a temperature of 4/6ºC, plus good air circulation and maximum light is essential.
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PROPAGATION:
Fairly easy in Spring and early Summer by topping the stem.
The flowering stem technique is also very successful with the inflorescence stems produced by this plant, more as with Katella II.
Raising these hybrids from seed is not a possibility, any progeny is likely to be reversions.
Leaf cuttings are unlikely to be successful.

Echeveria x 'Katella IV' D. Wright
Occurrence: A cultivated garden hybrid also produced from American breeder Dick Wright.
It is very similar to the x 'Katella II' but smaller and more compact with a rosette up to 20 cm in diameter, and occasionally forms branches from the base, not known to offset.

The leaves are green with pink, crenate margins. In the autumn and winter all the leaf surface is overlaid with pale pink.
The inflorescence is a straggly stem up to 1 metre long, with 3-5 branches at the end, each branch bearing four to six, reddish orange flowers. The inflorescence can easily topple the plant in a small pot.

Flowering time is early autumn to late winter in the Northern hemisphere. The flowers last a long time same as Katella II.

This plant has a medium compact single growth habit, but still needs topping every two or three years as for Katella II.

REF_1: "Echeverias A guide to cultivation and identification"
by L. CARRUTHERS and R. GINNS @ 1973.
E. x 'Katella IV'. Originated by D. Wright.
This is similar to the Katella II description, more compact, rosettes up to 20 cm in diameter. Leaves upturned, undulating with curly margins. They are glaucous green edged with red.

REF_3: "Dick and Ruth Wright ECHEVERIA and other succulent plants (undated list)."
"KATELLA IV
Very curly green leaves with pink margins.
2½".......................................................$4.00"

NOTE: Both these nurseries are no longer in existence.

REF_2: "Cadley Miniature Plants - 1973 Plant List of ECHEVERIAS & OTHER SUCCULENTS
L. Carruthers and M. Carruthers."
"Katella 2 & 4
These plants slowly form stems topped with a loose rosette of broad green leaves. The leaves are undulating with red margins, edges crenulate, although similar Katella 2 is the larger growing of the two plants.
3"dia,.........................................£1.50 each."

NOTE: Katella 4 did not appear in the 1975 catalogue.

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