A beautiful crested Echeveria at the Berkshire Botanical Garden. I learned about crested succu
A beautiful crested Echeveria at the Berkshire Botanical Garden. I learned about crested succulents at one of my first meetings of the New York Cactus & Succulent Society and have enjoyed identifying them ever since. In a nutshell, cristate growth occurs when the apical meristem (upper growth tissue) of the plant undergoes a mutation which makes it grow irregularly. Instead of new tissue growing as a point, it grows in a line and causes the plant to fan out (and look pretty cool!). -- source link
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