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Echeveria 'Laulindsa' - A beautiful slow growing cultivar that forms a mostly solitary stemless rosette 8 to 12 inches across with thick 4-inch long spathulate gray leaves with reddish margins and leaf surfaces covered with a powdery-white waxy coating. The 1-foot-long flowering stems branch and arch over with small salmon pink flowers that have bright orange interiors.
Plant in full sun to bright light in a well-drained soil. Although not as sensitive to this as its parent, Echeveria laui, it is best to irrigate this plant gently or preferably from the side or below and avoid touching to avoid removing the white coating on the leaves. We have not had this plant outdoors through a very cold winter, but it has weathered short duration temperatures to just below freezing and suggest that it be protected from longer duration temperatures below 32 ° F so not to mar its foliage.
This plant is a hybrid between Echeveria laui and Echeveria lindsayana, hence the name that is a combination of the parent's epithets. Echeveria laui, a beautiful slow growing plant with particularly thick narrow white leaves that was first collected in 1974 by Alfred Bernhard Lau from plants collected near the town of Quiotepec along the Rio Salado in Oaxaca. It was later described in 1976 by Reid Moran and Jorge Meyrán and named to honor Lau. The pollen parent Echeveria lindsayana is a plant first described by Eric Walther in 1972 from plants in cultivation and later discovered growing at Volcán de Tequila, Jalisco. It is now considered to be a form of Echeveria colorata. This hybrid cross was made by the late Robert Grim of Salinas, California, who was responsible such other hybrids as 'Moondust' (E. laui x E. lilacina), 'Paloma' (E. colorata x E. lilacina), x Graptoveria 'Opalina' (Echeveria colorata x Graptopetalum amethystinum) and x Graptosedum 'California Sunset' (Graptopetalum paraguayense x Sedum adophii). This plant is also sometimes listed as Echeveria 'Laulindsay' or just as 'Laulind'. We first received this beautiful plant in 2013 from San Luis Obispo area succulent grower and nurseryman Nick Wilkinson, who told us that he received it from Korean plantsman SeongJu Hwang.
The information displayed on this page about Echeveria 'Laulindsa' is based on the research we have conducted about it in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about this plant as it grows in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant have performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we have received from others and welcome hearing from anyone with information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information that will aid others to better grow it.
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