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| Category: Succulent |
| Family: Crassulaceae (Stonecrops) |
| Origin: Mexico (North America) |
| Evergreen: Yes |
| Red/Purple Foliage: Yes |
| Flower Color: Apricot |
| Bloomtime: Summer |
| Synonyms: [E. bifida] |
| Height: <1 foot |
| Width: <1 foot |
| Exposure: Sun or Shade |
| Irrigation (H2O Info): Low Water Needs |
| Winter Hardiness: 25-30° F |
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Echeveria trianthina - A stemless offsetting plant with rosettes to 6 to 8 inches wide with 4 inch long, less than 1 inch wide, deltoid to triangular-shaped and pointed (mucronate) leaves that are an unusual brownish-purple color. In summer the flowering stems rise well above the foliage with the inflorescence stem and bracts the same color as the foliage and bearing large apricot-pink flowers that only open near the petal tips and with succulent reflexed sepals also the same color as the leaves. This plant is not common in collections and was originally treated as a form of Echeveria bifida - our identification of it as this species is still tentative. Plant in full sun with occasional to little irrigation. Hardiness is yet unknown but it has been grown outdoors through a winter in the bay area. The type locality for this species is the Barranca de Tolantongo in the Mexican state of Hidalgo. A plant distributed by the ISI in 1961 as Echeveria trianthina? (ISI-198) was noted as being "small ..with orange yellow flowers and narrow leaves of a very distinctive bluish grey." This ISI plant was grown from seed collected 10 miles south of Zimapan, Hidalgo which would have been to the west of the type locality. The specific epithet 'trianthina' means "having 3-stage flowering stems".
This information about Echeveria trianthina displayed is based on research conducted in our horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We also will relate observations made about it as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We will also incorporate comments that we receive from others and we welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they can share any cultural information that would aid others in growing it.
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