Common green Echeveria from central Mexico with red edges and tips in the sun. There are many versions of this plant (plus hybrids) in cultivation. A few barely blush at all. Several colorful cultivars have been named and they generally offset regularly but not prolifically. Longer-leafed forms also exist. The flowers are small and easy to miss, though plants often make multiple inflorescences.

Provide strong light and excellent drainage in cultivation. These are dry growing plants, well suited to container life. Best leaf color and form are seen in direct sun. In locations without extreme heat, the red-blushing forms are some of the best Echeverias for extreme exposure locations. Inflorescences in bud are prone to aphids. Longer-leafed forms are prone to mealy bugs. Offsets are easily rooted. May self-seed in cultivation.

Notes regarding corderoyi: This variety of Echeveria agavoides (occasionally referred to as a cultivar called "Corderoyi") was originally described by Baker in 1874 as a species of Cotyledon named corderoyi, and named for succulent collector Justus Corderoy (whose full name has also been lent to an unrelated Crassula hybrid). Compared to other forms of agavoides this plant has more, narrower and flatter leaves; a 3-branched inflorescence with more, smaller flowers; and sepals not united at the base. Flowers are red, tinged yellow at the mouth.

There is more than a little confusion regarding names for this and related plants. A plant distributed in 1960 by the ISI as E. agavoides var. corderoyi was actually a separate cultivar described by Walther as "Red Edge" in 1972, with a 4-5 branched inflorescence and red flowers. This cultivar was described at the same time as Echeveria agavoides var. multifida (these names rendered invalid because of simultaneous publication) and renamed "Red Edge" by Dodson in 1973. Its distinguishing features relative to "Corderoyi" are a more highly branched inflorescence, red flowers, and sepals united at the base.

Discussed in Kimnach, M. (1998). Some changes of status in Echeveria. Cact. Succ. J.(USA), 70(6), 300.

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Red coloration on edges increases with more intense direct sunlight.

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