Echeveria 'Black Opalka'

Among the botanical species and hybrids can be found among various ugly duckling that is not successful and no power there is no danger that over time there was a remedy, as far as appearance. Then there are those common plants that blend with the crowd, are beautiful in larger collections of collections, but as individuals they are so little uniform. And then I have a category koukavých flowers, which are such as jewelry stand out among other plants and immediately notify each other and less attentive viewer. Such jewelry is beautiful interspecies hybrid of the genus Echeveria, Echeveria 'Black Opalka'

Beautiful color as plant leaves, rosettes and construction distinctive color of flowers. When growing plants in a sunny habitat showcases a beautiful play of colors that goes with dark green, chocolate brown through to tajmenou burgundy. This whole color effect is compounded by the sedentary coating, forming a fine drawing of the leaf surface. All this is even more impressive because the cardinality of rosettes that grow in diameter to 13 cm. The leaves are very succulent and closely sessile to low trunk.

During summer, the inflorescence appears with significantly red flowers resembling flowers Echeveria affinis, which is probably one of the parents of this hybrid.

Cultivation of Echeveria and exudes a joy. Initially I did a bit of trouble finding suitable interval between the toppings, but then leveled off water supply to three weeks. Doing too much watering not only nutritious but one that if you put water to the edge podmisky, none was left. Definitely I water from below, not on the list. In winter the plant is in a cold room where the dressing is limited to an embedding in January and another in early March, when the sun peeks out the first spring and the plant indicate that it wants to grow.

Over time, form lateral offshoots, those echeverku can reproduce. If you want to create a huge clump with multiple rosettes, then you must choose for growing deep enough and wide bowl. I recommend covering the substrate surface coarse gravel or small stones, which will be distributed to leaves and rosettes come into contact with the soil vhkou. At the same time to protect itself and the neck of the plant, which is sensitive to waterlogging.

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