Beautiful glaucous, dark purplish, fat-leafed rosette succulent with red flowers. The rosette may reach 5-6" and the stem may grow longer than that. Very easily propagated from leaves or cuttings. Branching tends to occur relatively late in life, though leaf propagations usually end up multiheaded, and branching can be triggered en masse by beheading. My plant flowered in early fall.

Usually mislabeled and sold as Echeveria tolimanensis, which looks similar vegetatively but has very different flowers (among other ways, with sepals pointing away from the corolla and not closely pressed up against it).

Parentage is said to be Sedum craigii (a pinkish purple plant with white flowers) x Echeveria affinis (a green or often dark brown-leafed plant with red flowers). Like both parents, it has the best color in strong light. Both parents are involved with other hybrids (eg. 'Ganzhou' from craigii, 'Black Prince' from affinis) and both have a pretty distinctive color and leaf shape.

Vulnerable to attack by mealy bugs (inspect near the base of the leaves near the growth center).

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