×Graptoveria’Fred Ives '
Echeveria’Fred Ives '
Family : CrassulaceaeSubfamily : SempervivoideaeTribe : SedeaeNothogenus:×Graptoveria
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×Graptoveria’Fred Ives ' is a loan-blend create by Albert Baynes , a founding member of the National Cactus & Succulent Society in England , in 1946 . It leave from a hybridizing betweenGraptopetalum paraguayenseand a works in theEcheveria gibbifloracomplex . This hybrid was named by van Keppel in 1979 for Fred Ives of Shipley , Yorkshire .
×Graptoveria’Fred Ives ' is a beautiful succulent that forms clumps of large rosettes of fleshy , unruffled , and waxy leaves at the end of myopic stems with pronounced leaf scars . The fore can arise up to 12 inches ( 30 cm ) long and 1.2 in ( 3 centimetre ) in diam , while the rosette can reach a diameter of 16 inches ( 40 cm ) . The parting are obovate - oblanceolate , faintly keel at the lower surface , measuring up to 6 inches ( 15 cm ) long and 2.4 inches ( 6 curium ) astray . They are fleeceable , flushed powerfully blue , becoming orangish , pinkish to purplish , depending on the sentence of the year and growing condition .
The blossom are pale yellow-bellied , sometimes with cherry touch , and seem in clusters on arc stalks that can grow up to 2 feet ( 60 cm ) long in summer .
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USDA hardiness zones9a to 11b : from 20 ° F ( −6.7 ° degree centigrade ) to 50 ° F ( +10 ° coulomb ) .
The rules forGraptopetalumcare are similar to those for most succulent . Container - bound plant expand in a concoction of peat , guts , or other grit , topsoil , and a little bit of compost . Full Sunday is the best situation , but they will also grow in fond sun with slightly gangling results .
Graptopetalums need excellent drainage and moderate pee . you could tellwhen to waterby stick your finger’s breadth in the soil . Water if the dirt is dry several inches down , or the fleshy leaf look shrivel up . Overwateringcauses root rots , and the plant life can get several plague infestations .
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These succulents are generally easily propagate by semen , leaf cutting , or offsets . Any rosette that breaks off can root and start a unexampled works . Even a folio that drops off quickly roots below the parent industrial plant and raise a newfangled rosette . The raw plant eat off the leaf until it shrivels and fall off . The new short ghost works had root and sprouted new leaves by then .
Learn more atHow to develop and Care for Graptopetalum .
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