Species · genus Echeveria · Crassulaceae

Mexican Snowball

Echeveria elegans Rose

Also known as: Mexican-gem · Pearl Echeveria · White Mexican-rose

Growth habit

succulent subshrub

Native range

Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest

Reference · E. elegans

Cultivars of E. elegans

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under E. elegans yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

Echeveria elegans is a rosette-forming succulent subshrub from arid regions of Mexico, where it stores water in its fleshy leaves and endures long dry spells. Give it gritty, fast-draining mix and bright light with some direct sun; water deeply only when the mix has dried out completely, and let the leaves rather than a calendar guide you. Sitting in damp soil causes rot, so err on the dry side.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 10-21d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Direct sun

Water

≈ every 21 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

10–27 °C

Soil mix

Gritty, fast-draining cactus and succulent mix

Propagation

Leaf or offset cuttings, callused then rooted in dry mix

Fertilizing

Dilute succulent feed once or twice in spring and summer

Growth rate

Slow

Flowering

Arching pink-and-yellow bells in spring when given strong light

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 10-21d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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