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Nov 30, 2023 11:40 AM CST
Name: Baja
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There's an Echeveria cultivar in the database that I'm pretty sure is not valid. The cultivar name is kind of a hint already that something is amiss, because all elegans plants are blue to various degrees.



The original source for the main image and the most likely original source for the name as well is Annie's Annuals.



Their page on the plant here, with that same image

https://www.anniesannuals.com/...

I have been studying pictures of Echeveria elegans here for a couple of days and this is not a match. The chubby leaves are more in the range of xPachyveria or xSedeveria, or some other Echeveria hybrid, than that species, which has relatively thin leaves.

This leaves us with a couple of problems to solve. First, what is the plant pictured above? Can anyone propose a better name? And what do we do with the images under this listing which do not match it?

These 2 additional images look like they could be the same plant as the one above




But these 2 images look like something different (hard to tell with the etiolation in the first picture)




I believe the image from @SugiGirl may be a crested elegans with reversions, and that could go under the species entry. I have no idea what the long-stemmed plant from @csandt may be. I'm thinking it would be best to find homes for these photos before deleting the problematic database entry.

Tagging the members who uploaded images to this entry here, in case they have any input:

@Calif_Sue
@csandt
@ge1836
@SugiGirl
@tarev

Thank you @Castello_decorum for bringing this to my attention. Please speak up if you have any suggestions for how to handle this.
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