This small blue-green carunculated Echeveria hybrid has one round wart per leaf (sometimes none), resembling a drop of water perched on the widest part near the tip. It is more or less solitary, reaching about 6 inches wide (up to 8 inches for some tissue cultured forms). Compared to other carunculated Echeverias, all presumed to be descendants of E. gibbiflora "Carunculata", and often characterized by obscene, billowing warty tissue, the effect on this plant is much more limited and elegant. Flowers are glaucous pink with an orange interior, arranged on a forked shepherd's crook. For best form and color (including red highlights) provide strong light.

Not a long lived plant. You have a year or two max from the onset of nice round raindrops before the plant grows stemmy and the rosettes shrink dramatically.

A stunning Dick Wright hybrid, with a few very similar-looking siblings (at least two of which have been named: "New Heights" and "Heart's Delight"). Sometimes incorrectly spelled "Raindrops".

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