Species · genus Echeveria · Crassulaceae

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Echeveria gibbiflora DC.

Also known as: Echeveria

Growth habit

succulent subshrub

Native range

Mexico Central, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Southwest

Reference · E. gibbiflora

Cultivars of E. gibbiflora

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

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

Guide

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Echeveria gibbiflora is a succulent subshrub native to the arid uplands of central and northern Mexico, storing water in its fleshy rosette leaves and resenting wet roots. Give it gritty, fast-draining mix and the brightest spot you have, ideally several hours of direct sun. Water deeply only when the soil has dried out completely and the lower leaves feel slightly soft — when in doubt, wait.

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 14-28d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Direct sun

Water

≈ every 28 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

10–27 °C

Soil mix

Gritty, fast-draining cactus and succulent mix

Propagation

Leaf cuttings or offsets, callused then rooted in dry mix

Fertilizing

Dilute succulent feed once or twice in spring and summer

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Tall arching stalks of reddish bells in late summer to autumn

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 14-28d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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