Echeveria pulidonis (Pulido’s Echeveria)

Description: Echeveria pulidonis is a slow growing succulent with frosty blue spoon-shaped leaves outlined with rose-red margins. It has a very geometric form before the creation of his many offsets. In spring the bright yellow bell-shaped flowers tip arching reddish stems that bend over with the weight of the flowers.
Stems: Very short up to 2 cm long and 1cm across.
Roots: Short and fine.
Rosettes: Apparently stemless,10 to 14 cm wide of many (25 or more) leaves. Though often seen as solitary, it will offset to form a good size clump over time. 
Leaves: Approx. 5 cm long and 1.5 cm broad, fleshy, ascending, oblong to ovate, incurved, tapering to the base, slightly concave above, convex below, bristle-tipped. light green, margins with a distinct red tip. The leaves take a characteristic purple-red tinge especially in time of drought and in winter. 
Inflorescence: Usually unbranched cymose, shaped like a "shepherd's crook". Flowers nodding, 10 or more to each one-sided raceme. Flowering-stalkup to 20 cm tall, reddish. Bracts 1.4-1.6 cm long.
Flowers: Sepals to 6 mm long, triangular to ovate, pointed, spreading: corolla 9-10 mm, lemon-yellow, 5-sided. narrowing slightly at mouth. 
Blooming season: Spring—summer. 
Taxonomy: Echeveria pulidonis is placed in the series Urbiniae within the genus Echeveria. This series includes the nominate species, Echeveria agavoides, Echeveria elegans, Echeveria halbingeri, and Echeveria lilacina. 

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Cold Hardy to 20° to 30°F

Echeveria pulidonis is a slow growing succulent with stemless rosettes up to 5 inches wide of fleshy, incurved, red-edge, pale bluish-green leaves that are flat to slightly concave on the upper surface and round below with a distinct red tip. 

Though often seen as solitary, it will offset to form a good size clump over time.

In spring the bright yellow flowers tip multiple unbranched reddish stem that bend over with the weight of the flowers.