х Sedeveria sp. f. cristata Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
Origin and Habitat: Garden origin (Nursery produced cultivar)
Parentage: Unknown: Sedum sp. x Echeveris sp.
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Description: The Sedeverias are intergeneric hybrids made from a cross between a Sedum sp. and an Echeveria sp. The crested form here described is of unknown parentage. It is a branching succulent which produces many nice crested stems from the base and seems to to change in and out of its crested mode during the years. Width: 30-40 cm. It slowly grows into an undulating mound, A true oddity!
Stems and rosettes: The fasciated rosettes stand up on pale green to pinkish stalks up to 30 cm tall. Young stem with leaves on the top, no leaves on the old basal part of stems.
Leaves: (1-)1·8 × 2(-2·8) cm, obovate-cuneate with mucro, entire, not ciliate on the margin and the keel, waxy, tender green, margin becoming bronze-red in the sun.
Notes: The new genus Sedeveria was made necessary to name a number of recent bigeneric crosses, of which one is an Echeveria sp. (often Echeveria derenbergiiSN|27443]]SN|27443]]) as one parent with one of the several species of Sedum (especially Mexican species) The several hybrids are usually intermediate between the two parents, even if the traits of the genus Sedum often appear to be dominant. Many of this hybrids are commonly found in the trade but not usually named.
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Reproduction: It can be propagated from cuttings or from leaf-cuttings (leaves detach spontaneously at the minimal touch and start soon rooting, but most of the plant that develops from leaves are not crested)