I'm looking for a more definitive ID of the plant shown in the photos. It's about 50 cm across and high, planted out in the garden. The tall stalks seem to be flower stalks (there are still some shorter rosettes in there somewhere). Since it came (without name) from a garden center I have been trying to name it by locating similar looking plants in garden centers and doing some research on the interwebs (we all know how dependable that is).
The closest I've got right now is Echeveria harmsii. The inflorescences look a little un-Echeveria-like in my limited experience (they seem to be terminal on a rosette instead of branches) and much leafier than I would have expected. When I bought it in April, it had one Echeveria-like flower stuck in among some leaves at the top of a rosette (it looked a bit out of place, plant may have been confused having been pumped up in the nursery), so that's a vote for it being related to Echeveria at least.
Anyone who can tell what this actually is?
Echeveria harmsii? The black pipe is part of 3/4" drip irrigation tubing sticking out of the ground.
The flowers will give you an answer. Echeveria harmsii has very large red flowers that are long with a pronounced yellow inside. Check it out on The International Crassulacaea Network http://www.crassulaceae.ch/. You can check out Echeveria coccinea, too, that has red flowers but they are all the way up, on a long flower stalk.
Obsessive Crassulaceae lover, especially Aeoniums but also grow, Aloes, Agaves, Haworthias and a select number of Cacti.
Looking again at the close-up picture of Astro's Echeveria, I can see that it is going to produce the long flower stem and mass of flowers that you get on Echeveria coccinea.
Obsessive Crassulaceae lover, especially Aeoniums but also grow, Aloes, Agaves, Haworthias and a select number of Cacti.
