Echeveria nodulosa
A shrubby echeveria from the highlands of northern Oaxaca and southern Puebla, Mexico, where it is widespread and fairly common. It forms loose rosettes on knobbly, branching stems, and its pale leaves are striped and edged with purple-red. It is grown in cultivation as the painted echeveria. It needs strong light, a sharply draining mix and a wet summer and drier winter, like the dry highland slopes it comes from.
Where it grows wild
The sources consulted do not describe its habitat in detail. Southern Puebla and northern Oaxaca are mostly semi-arid highland, with scrub, oak woodland and rocky slopes. Echeverias there usually grow on rocky banks and cliffs in sun or light shade. The knobbly stems for which it is named let it sprawl over rocks.
No elevation data were found for this species. Echeverias of this region typically grow at about 1,500-2,500 m, which is an assumption here.
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