echeveria

echeveria
noun Etymology: New Latin, genus name, after Atanasio Echeverría fl1771 Mexican botanical illustrator Date: 1883 any of a large genus (Echeveria) of tropical American succulent plants of the orpine family that have showy rosettes of often plushy basal leaves and axillary clusters of flowers with erect petals

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