🌱 Morphology
    Compact hybrid succulent with clumping growth, forming rosettes of thick, fleshy, lanceolate leaves with a pointed tip. The foliage displays a very distinctive color combination: the young leaves in the center can show bluish-gray and greenish tones, while the outer leaves develop yellowish-green, ochre, and brown hues. The margins and tips take on reddish tones, and the central leaves can develop small dark red to almost black bumps near the tip. Over time, it produces offsets and forms dense clumps.

🌍 Distribution, habitat and family
Horticultural hybrid with no natural distribution of its own, resulting from the cross between Graptopetalum mendozae and Echeveria agavoides ‘Ebony’. Crassulaceae family, notogenerus ×Graptoveria.

❄️ Temperature
USDA 10a (−1.1 °C) as a conservative reference, not as a guarantee of tolerance. It is sensitive to intense cold and should be protected from frost and cold, wet substrate. For safe cultivation, it should be sheltered when temperatures approach 5–7 °C.

☀️ Lighting
Soft full sun, with gradual acclimatization. Indicative PAR DLI of 15–25 mol·m⁻²·day⁻¹. Abundant lighting promotes compact rosettes and highlights the reddish tones and dark bumps on the leaves. During summer, it should be protected from the most intense sun and provided with good ventilation.

💧 Growth cycle and watering
Opportunistic, with growth mainly during the mild seasons. Water thoroughly and allow the substrate to dry out completely before watering again. In winter, watering should be spaced out considerably, especially when temperatures are low. Waterlogging and water accumulation between the leaves must be avoided.

🌸 Flowering
In spring, it develops inflorescences with small, bell-shaped flowers with yellow petals and pink hues. 

🌿 Nutrition
During the active growth period, Desert CHOICE® Succulents is recommended, applied after watering. Before flowering, it can be supplemented with Desert CHOICE® Flowering. Fertilizing is not recommended during the winter dormancy period.

This is an inimitable xerophyte grown in Madrid in a high-tech square pot with substrate activated with mycorrhizal fungi and biofungicides.
9x9 cm pot

* As this is an online purchase, the appearance of the sent specimen may vary slightly from the product image. The photo description specifies the plant's measurements, but these may also vary slightly because it is a living thing! Each of the plants at Desert CITY has unique characteristics.