Comprehensive Description
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Courantia rosea (lyindl.) lyemaire; Britton & Rose, Bull
N. Y. Bot. Gard. 3 : 11. 1903.
Echeveria rosea Undl. Bot. Reg-. 28 : pi. 22. 1842.
Cotyledon roseata Baker, in Saund. Ref . Bot. 1 : sub pi. SS, no. 3. 1869.
Courantia echeverioides I^emaire, Jard. Fleur. 1 : Misc. 92. 1851.
Caulescent, branching, 10-30 cm. high, glabrous. Leaves numerous, closely set near apex of the branches, oblanceolate-spatulate, sometimes 7.5 cm. long, the margins reddishtinged ; flowering branches 10 cm. long, stout, densely leafy, the lower leaves spatulate, the upper ones linear, as long as the flowers, all tinged with red ; flowers many, in a dense spike ; calyx-lobes linear, rose-red, the longer ones as long as the corolla; corolla pale-yellow.
Type locality : Mexico.
Distribution : San Luis Potosi to Oaxaca and Vera Cruz.
- bibliographic citation
- John Kunkel SmaII, George Valentine Nash, Nathaniel Lord Britton, Joseph Nelson Rose, Per Axel Rydber. 1905. ROSALES, PODOSTEMONACEAE, CRASSULACEAE, PENTHORACEAE and PARNASSIACEAE. North American flora. vol 22(1). New York Botanical Garden, New York, NY
Echeveria rosea: Brief Summary
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Echeveria rosea is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae, native to Mexico. A succulent, it has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.
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