x Pachyveria 'Scheideckeri’ Van Keppel

Succulenta 1962, Nr. 1

Translation by Margrit Bischofberger

xPachyveria 'Scheideckeri' by van Keppel in Succulenta, 1962, n°1
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Summary:

Hybrid by Peter Scheidecker*, Munich, around 1870, the parents are Pachyphytum bracteosum and Echeveria secunda. A very common plant which flowers several times a year.

The normal form has white striped leaves, there is also a variegated and a crested form.

(* Note: Van Keppel errs, x P. 'Scheideckeri' is a hybrid by Louis de Smet, not by Peter Scheidecker. MB)

(* Note: Le créateur de x P. 'Scheideckeri' n'est pas Peter Scheidecker, comme Van Keppel indique, mais Louis de Smet. MB)

Description:

Mat forming plants with a short stem, ca. 25 cm high.
Leaves very numerous, somehow elongated – obovate, +_ 6 – 7 cm long, 1 – 2 cm wide, 5 – 7 mm thick; ventrally flat or slightly concave, dorsally convex and carinate; blue green, pruinose, mucronate. Leaves normally with white stripes ventrally as well as dorsally.
Sepals adpressed, unequal, shorter than petals.
Petals orange red with yellow tips.
Petal appendages rudimentary or lacking.
Inflorescence mostly a simple one-sided raceme, pendent at the top.
Sterile bracts on the inflorescence small and soon withering.