When searching the local shops and nurseries beginning of this year for new sempervivum to be added to my collection, I sometimes focused more on a single feature like texture, colour ....than in overall beauty, as my aim was to have a heterogenous genepool for future crosses...
That was how I came along this "white" sempervivum which I normally would have left where it was - but the white colour was so different from what I had - I bought it. Asking the personnel in the shop if the plants had spent longer time in the dark or with insufficiant lighting I was told that it was normal and healthy but simply lighter in colour than other semps.
Obviously that was not the case!
Below the semp in May shortly after planting (in the middle on the right side in the plate) I guess it is a good example for etoliated semps:
After having separated, cleaned and planted the nearly rootless rosettes in well draining soil I lost about 75% of them immediately. The survivours looked terrible, nearly leafless more dead then alive. After one month I discovered the first tiny green leaves, growing and multiplying very fast until another month later the recovery or should I say transformation was complete!
Light green, with an interesting texture and as it seams with slightly variegated leaves!?
Currently the rosettes are developping bright red tips. I'm curious to see them in spring in full colour.
Definitely one of my favourites
, but unfortunately a NOID....
Below again in the same position in the plate and as a closeup:
