A large plant in the Gibbiflorae group of Echeveria that rises up on unbranched stems to 18 inches and has 2 foot wide open rosettes of large broad spoon-shaped green to gray-green leaves that have a slightly wavy apex and reddish margin; older leaves flush purple to pink. It bears a 3 to 6 foot, usually unbranched, inflorescence with nodding rose-red flowers in late fall through early winter.
The flowers are reddish-pink within, but paler on the outside due to a powdery coating
Still others have large paddle-like leaves and thick stems, and the best known of this latter sort is E. gibbiflora, whose parentage is prominent in the ruffly-leaved hybrids which resemble ornamental cabbages.
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