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I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole and need help going deeper


Wondering if anyone can help me ID the species for these two.

They were gifted to me many years and several pot sizes ago.

I wish I could find the pictures I had of them when they were a lot smaller, because I swear they looked like the same species when I got them. At the time, I didn’t know much about plants and wasn’t into succulents at all, so I may just not have noticed the differences. But still, I swear these things are looking more and more different every year, and that’s gotten me progressively more interested in them, their life cycles and what they might be. As well as a lot more curious about observing them.

I’m attempting to propagate them for the first time, and the leaves are from that (don’t judge me on the beat up leaves, I did my best to not tear them!). And it struck me all over again how different they are with the very different leaf shape.

As tends to happen with variegation, it comes and goes based on light levels with the red tipped one. When I got it, it had no variegation at all. The reference images are it at its most variegated in the second half of summer on the brightest window sill it’s ever seen. I think the camera may have “enhanced” the image as well. The green one I periodically think is starting to develop red or purple tips as well, but it never goes beyond the very tip.

I’m semi confident these are both echeverias, but any more specific identification (or correction!) would be amazing

by braidedpotato

4 Comments

  2. SmoothD3vil

    First one is an echeveria agavoides and the second one is possibly an echeveria moon goddess/gad/Gadnis (it’s a hybrid with many names).

    Hope this helps! They’re beautiful!

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