Species · genus Echeveria · Crassulaceae
Echeveria Simulans
Echeveria simulans Rose
Cultivars of E. simulans
The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.
No named cultivars catalogued under E. simulans 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.
A Rosette from Mexico
Echeveria elegans var. simulans 'Waves' is a succulent perennial in the Crassulaceae family, grown for its fleshy, colour-touched rosette. The wider genus Echeveria gathers evergreen succulent perennials and subshrubs, their rosettes of thick leaves rising toward racemes or panicles of urn-shaped flowers.
Source: RHS
Roots in Eastern Mexico
The species this variety belongs to, Echeveria simulans, is native to eastern Mexico, reaching as far as Jalisco. It grows there as a succulent subshrub of desert and dry shrubland, conditions that shaped its water-storing habit. The name simulans was first published by Rose in 1905, and the variety recognised under Poellnitz in 1936.
Source: Kew
Fleshy Rosette Form
This is an evergreen succulent perennial carrying a rosette of colourful, fleshy leaves. In time it sends up racemes or panicles of urn-shaped flowers above the foliage, a habit typical of the genus it belongs to.
Source: RHS
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
Direct sun
≈ every 21 days
Low — average room
10–27 °C
Gritty, fast-draining cactus and succulent mix
Leaf cuttings, callused then rooted in dry mix
Dilute succulent feed once or twice in spring and summer
Slow
Pink-flushed bells on arching stalks in late winter to spring
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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