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Products > Graptoveria 'Fred Ives'   Graptoveria 'Fred Ives'     [2nd Image] Habit and Cultural Information Category: Succulent Family: Crassulaceae (Stonecrops) Origin: Mexico (North America) Evergreen: Yes Red/Purple Foliage: Yes Flower Color: Pale Yellow Bloomtime: Summer Synonyms: [Echeveria 'Fred Ives' ] Parentage: (Graptopetalum paraguayense X Echeveria gibbiflora) Height: 1-2 feet Width: 1-2 feet Exposure: Sun or Shade Summer Dry: Yes Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs Winter Hardiness: 25-30° F x Graptoveria 'Fred Ives' - A beautiful and durable succulent plant that produces large clumps of rosettes to 8 inches tall by nearly 1 foot wide with broad bronze and pink succulent leaves atop short (< 1 foot) stems with 1'-2' long branched inflorescences bearing red-orange centered pale yellow flowers in summer. Plant in full to part sun in a well-drained soil. Little irrigation required. This is a vigorous plant and is great as a container specimen or in the ground in well-drained soils or raised planters. It is reportedly a hybrid of Graptopetalum paraguayense crossed with a plant in the Echeveria gibbiflora complex that was created by Albert Baynes, a founding member of the National Cactus & Succulent Society in England in 1946. The plant was named for one of the societies co-founders Fred Ives of Shipley, Yorkshire and the name was first published in 1979 by J.C. van Keppel in Succulenta 58 (10) : 251 – 253. Other invalid names associated with this plant include Echeveria 'Fred Ives' Graptopetalum 'Giant Indian Rock', Graptopetalum ivesii, Echeveria ivesii and Graptoveria ivesii. There are also crested and variegated forms of this plant in the succulent trade.  The information on this page is based on research conducted about this plant in our library and from reliable online sources. We also take into consideration observations of this plant in our nursery crops, as well as of plants growing in the nursery's garden and those in other gardens we visit. We also will incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome getting feedback from anyone who may have additional information, particularly if it includes cultural information that would aid others in growing Graptoveria 'Fred Ives'.     [MORE INFO]