Wildbloomers said: @needrain Your plant looks like P. warasii to me. A very similar plant but with longer spines and green stems (versus bluish stems on P. magnifica) Here are a couple of sites that seem to show the plants correctly.
https://succulentalley.com/par...
http://www.llifle.com/Encyclop...
It is important to note that we are all just guessing and trying to be as thorough as we can based on available info.
. I counted the ribs on the unknown and the one purchased as magnifica. The purchased one has 12 ribs, the unknown has 16 ribs. I spent a bit of time with the photos counting the ribs depicted on magnifica and most those have 12 ribs. One exception had 13 ribs, two had 11 ribs. But I still ended up questioning whether the magnifica was labeled correctly. The one I'm growing would not be noted for any hint of being glaucus. It's just green. It has put on a lot of offsets and otherwise seems to match, but no blue green that's noticeable to me.
. I rummage around in the Llifle site quite a bit. It's a good source for origins, temperature range and growing requirements - or least it has been for the ones I've examined.
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