Echeveria 'Alfred‘

• Origin unknown.
• Suggested parents : Echeveria pulidonis and E. elegans ‘Albicans’
• Described and named for his friend Alfred H.  Waltemyer by Bernie DeChant.

Description

• Stem : erect, 4 cm high, 1,4 cm in diameter, offsetting at base, color grayish green.
• Rosette : compact, 9,5 cm in diameter, 4 cm high, ca. 35 leaves.
• Leaves : 4,5 cm long, 0,5 cm thick, 1,6 cm wide near apex;  obovate-oblong, acute, mucronate; slightly concave above and convex below, not keeled; color bluish green, pruinose, upper margins and mucro slightly pinkish.
• Inflorescence : one for this plant, secund raceme, peduncle 26 cm long, 0,2 cm in diameter, color  grayish green, pruinose ; bracts 10, 1,5 cm long, 0,2 cm wide, lanceolate,  spurred, soon falling off, grayish green, pruinose.
• Flowers : 14 + , pedicel  9 mm long ; corolla strongly urceolate; sepals very unequal, united at base for 2 mm, up to 11,5 mm long and 2,1 mm wide, spreading, color same as bracts; petals 14 mm long and 4 mm wide, united at base, keeled, tips curved outside, color outside yellow tinged reddish, inside yellow; carpel yellowish white, style green, filaments yellow, anthers brown.

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