When I brought home this plant that I was happy that we brought in another collection, this time a little Echeveria, with an interesting fruticose growth. Over time, as it grew, it seemed to me to be a form slightly different from the growth of mold growth Echeveria. You is so rich and does not neodnožují rose stems on, but the trunk, which is created after some time. (Of course depending on the type). Zapátrat left than in the literature and the name of the plants in the world. Sedum clavatum. Mexican stonecrop species, which is that of small Echeveria.

The home of this species is Tiscalatengo Rive River Valley, in the Trans- Mexican volcanic belt. It grows mostly in the vertical position in the crevices of rocks, the andesite cliffs, shady canyons and valleys along the river Tenancingo River. Type of form colonies of long succulent stems, at the end always grows a rosette of bright green leaves with a distinctive red dot on top and slightly bluish grayish, uniform coating without drawings. These stands are composed of up to 70 plants, often only a few meters above the river, grew in the moss and turf grass.

According to the description of sites can odovdit environment that requires the plant grown in our conditions. Garden soil with coarse gravel work to have the opportunity to Prussian roots as they are in a cleft between the rocks. By that grow in the vertical positions are in their environment odotk fast water. This part is replaced with a smaller admixture of sand into the potting compost to prevent waterlogging of the roots. The substrate should not be too vysachyvý but, as with most succulents, because the deposits were finding roslitny in clayey soil. Location of the gorge, polostinná places such colonies were found growing on rocky outcrops in the moss under the bridge. Therefore, our little plant umístníme rather polostinné place with traveling shadow (shadow that forms be Líšťany treetops or bushes, which occasionally penetrate the solar parsky), or in a place with scattered svtětlem. And as the last species grows in places, who is the higher humidity. As is evident, it is important to study (if the option), where they were finding rosltiny. Not all succulents grow on a hot sunny position with minimal dávkymi water. Sedum clavatum would on a hot, summer full salunci safely destroyed.

.... and both said they did .... plant I planted in shallow ceramic bowl, the rough stones, which also cover the bottom part. Instead I opted for the majority of the shady, where the sun shines only hurt 10 to 13 hours. It does not provide no special care, just leave it to nature, that pigs and get water. The truth is that it is in close proximity to large trvalkového thickening, which is watered every evening, which provides sufficient humidity and occasionally some one drop falls into the bowl of sedum. I would say that in these clavatu podmíkách quite successful.

Sedum clavatum species is suitable for growing under normal housing conditions. In this case, but we choose instead to sunny window. Is ideal for producing a flatter bowl with a few larger stones on which the stems with rosettes can rely on. Watering should be regular once a week in winter is limited to a minimum. Ideally, přistit rosltinu to cool, bright room with a temperature around 10 ° C.

In cultivation, there is still Sedum clavatum'Lime Drops'. This is bigger than Sedum clavatum with very succulent leaves and stems massive. Plant Sedum clavatum compared nmnohem odnožuje less and has a significantly slower growth. The leaves are larger, grown along the stem. Sedum clavatum has leaves crowded at the apex stonuku. Color are lush green with a bluish tinge with silvery surface markings, without red dots on top. Sedum clavatum has leaves with a bluish coating without drawing pad across the top sheet on top with a red dot on average + -2 mm.

Both species are interesting and easy to cultivate.
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