About Echeveria elegans Rose
Echeveria elegans Rose is an evergreen, perennial succulent. It reaches 5–10 cm (2–4 inches) in height and grows up to 50 cm (20 inches) wide. It forms compact rosettes made of fleshy, pale green-blue leaves. It produces slender pink stalks 25 cm (10 inches) long that bear pink flowers with yellow tips; it typically blooms during winter and spring. This species is cultivated as an ornamental plant, used for planting in rock gardens or grown as a potted plant. It grows well in subtropical climates, such as that of Southern California, and has received the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. Like other species in its genus, Echeveria elegans produces multiple offsets that can be separated from the parent plant in spring and grown on their own. This growth habit gives it the common name "hen and chicks", a name that is applied to several species in the genus Echeveria.
