The plant itself is squished under the weight of the flower stalk 😅.
This plant took literally half a year to finally open the flowers after it started to develop the stalk. But I only have a few of the giant gibbiflora and an Echeveria Magic Ball flowering right know. I think Magic Ball is infertile, I was never able to get anything to germinate from it.
Since this plant has Echeveria affinis in its genes, it flowers on autumn, while most of the small rosettes Echeveria flower on spring time. But I used pollen from Echeveria 'Aquila' to cross with it, so here's hoping for something interesting to come out of It.
The flowers have a really nice color ❤️
by DatSnowFlake
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That’s my Echeveria Áquila
This is perhaps also the reason why we have so few affinis hybrids. For me affinis and shaviana tend to flower at roughly the same time, but not much else. Oh and also runyonii. So that could explain why we have Black Prince (affinis x shaviana). It’s only more recently that we’ve been getting other more interesting affinis hybrids (not sure if that has to do with environmental manipulation to induce flowering, whether breeders store pollen, or whatnot). It’s also why there are lots of mixes between species in the Urbiniae series (agavoides, colorata, cuspidata, elegans, pulidonis, lilacina, purpusorum, simulans, tolimanensis, and so on (many of the more “common” species)) – they all flower at the same time!