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x Sedeveria 'Letizia' (Lety's Sedeveria) - A beautiful small succulent branching at the base with a cluster of stems that grow to about 8 inches tall with 2 1/2-inch-wide rosettes bearing many tightly arranged 1 inch long green deltoid shaped leaves with fine hairs along the margins. The older rosettes sit atop slender bare stems while younger ones have leaves the length of the stems. The leaves turn red in the sun with colder temperatures in winter but are green in summer or when grown in shade. In spring multiple inflorescences rise from below the top of the rosette and, rising above the rosette, bear flowers in a scorpiod cyme that are white with petal tips barely pink with the stem bristling with fine hairs.
Plant in full coastal sun to light shade in a well-drained soil and irrigate occasionally. It is hardy to around 21 °F. A great plant for a small choice spot in in the rock or succulent garden and great as a container plant.
According to information on the Sedum Society x Sedeveria 'Letizia' is an older hybrid between Sedum cuspidatum X Echeveria setosa var. ciliata that went unnamed until Jean-Michel Moullec published the name in the January 2006 Sedum Society Newsletter (No. 7) honoring his Italian friend Letizia Alleruzzo, though it is speculated that the plant likely originated from Fred Wass, a British cactus and succulent collector. Sedum cuspidatum, the seed parent of this plant is a slow growing species from western Chiapas and eastern Oaxaca with red tinged green leaves that rise up on vertical, highly textured stems and with an inflorescence that rises above the foliage with only a few white flowers. The pollen parent, Echeveria setosa var. ciliata (E. ciliata), is a mostly ground hugging plant from Oaxaca with short stems less than 3 inches long, each topped with a flat rosette of many leaves similar in shape to the hybrid that are edged in red with fine hairs. It has red and yellow flowers on a hairy inflorescence that rises well about the foliage. We thank Korean nurseryman Seong Ju for sharing this wonderful plant with us in 2012.
The information about Sedeveria 'Letizia' that is displayed on this web page is based on research conducted in our nursery's horticultural library and from reliable online resources. We will also include observations made about this plant as it grows in our nursery gardens and other gardens that we have visited, as well how the crops have performed in containers in our nursery field. We also incorporate comments that we receive from others and welcome hearing from anyone with additional information, particularly if they share cultural information that aids others growing this plant.
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