Pachyphytum viride

Original:Stems to 50 x 1.5 – 3.5 cm (decumbent or pendent to > 1 m), basally few-branched. Rosettes with 12 – 40 leaves in the uppermost 3 – 12 cm of the stems, more distant below. Leaves elliptic-oblong, terete, basally abruptly narrowed, widely spreading, somewhat upcurved, 6 – 10 x 1.5 – 3 cm, 10 – 17 mm thick, pale to dark green or ± violet-red, not glaucous-pruinose. Inflorescence : lower 10 – 17 cm of the inflorescence leaf-less, above with 6 – 9 appressed caducous sterile bracts, 10 – 35 cm, pale green to intensely violet-red, uppermost 5 – 12 cm with 10 – 22 flowers, strongly arching until after flowering; fertile bracts first overlapping, ovate to obovate or somewhat rhombic, lower bracts 15 – 30 x 7 – 18 mm, pale green or rose-coloured, pedicels 2 – 6 (-8) mm. Flowers : Calyx 13 – 25 x 6 – 13 mm, sepals erect, appressed, unequal, 10 – 19 x 3 – 9 mm, corolla 9 – 14 x 6 – 13 mm, hidden between the sepals, white, petals oblong-oblanceolate, 8 – 14 x 2.5 – 6 mm, tube ± 0.5 mm, lobes erect, acute, ascending-spreading from the middle, towards the tip with faint round to ovate dark purple-red spot, filaments basally yellowish, red above. New:Pachyphytum is a small genus of succulents in the Crassulaceae family, native from Mexico. They are tender, soft succulents - will not tolerate frost.

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  Full sun to partial shade

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  Occasional watering

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  Not Frost hardy

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  Free draining and fertile