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Echeveria carnicolor

A small echeveria endemic to central Veracruz, Mexico, forming flat rosettes up to about 13 cm across of fleshy grey-purple to pinkish leaves, with red-orange flowers. It grows on steep, moist rock faces in forested ravines at middle elevations, so it wants brighter shade, milder temperatures and a little more moisture than desert echeverias.

Echeveria carnicolor
Photo: Fogfish Comics, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
At home, aim for
Day Cool-growingTargets in Plantistry
Night Close to the dayTargets in Plantistry
Humidity Dry airBand in Plantistry
Light Bright, filtered lightDLI and PPFD in Plantistry
No rest periodGrows on rock (lithophyte)

Where it grows wild

Steep rocks and moist cliffs in barrancas (ravines), such as the Barranca de Tenampa, Barranca de Consequitla near Zacuapan and the gorge of the Río Jamapa, within deciduous and humid montane forest. Plants root into thin pockets on the rock and are partly shaded by the ravine walls and surrounding trees.

Specimen labels give about 750–1800 m, most around 950–1350 m.

Mexico, Veracruz: central Veracruz ravines around Tenampa, Zacuapan and Calcahualco (Río Jamapa)

🔒 Growing it like that

The wild conditions above, turned into targets for a shelf, a tent or a greenhouse. The full profile has:

✓ Day and night temperature targets, and the limits it tolerates
✓ Humidity band, and how to hold it
✓ Light as DLI and PPFD for a grow light
✓ Wet and dry seasons, and whether to rest it
✓ Substrate and airflow
✓ A step-by-step setup to grow it like the wild

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Profiles are drafts built from measured range and climate and from published sources; each section carries its own confidence in the app. Photo from Wikimedia Commons, used under its CC BY-SA 4.0 licence, unmodified.