Unlike the Zorro, it is lighter and paler in colour, usually turning rusty brown, olive, orange, or pink depending on the season. Young versions can look like the Echeveria ‘Blue Waves’ and many other frilly hybrids in appearance but then they start to grow in size rapidly as they mature.Įach leaf has large edge curls, comparable to that of an Echeveria ‘Zorro’. The Curls has large leaves and forms a large rosette. The reason for this is because I do not want to interrupt their growth period and they grow the fastest while attached to a mature plant. I will be leaving them on for now and will separate them in autumn, when the growing season starts winding down. I saw a few more pups that have grown large enough to be harvested.

Prior to taking these photos, I took another look underneath. Removing all of those pups created large gaps underneath. It has dramatically reduced in size last winter because it produced lots of pups. This was before my Mauna Loa, Barbillion, Big Red, Red Sapphire, and Zorro finally caught up and eventually overtook it. At the time it held that title, it was 45cm wide. The RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM) helps gardeners choose the best plants for their garden. This particular specimen used to be my largest echeveria.

It was imported by Bev Spiller into Australia as Blue Curls, which she later renamed to simply Curls since it was not as blue as the regular ones. Echeveria Blue Curls is an evergreen succulent with a rosette type arrangement of leaves.The colour is usually shades of blue-green in the warmer months. Echeveria Blue Curls - A mostly solitary plant with rosettes to 25cm wide with frilly-edged blue-green leaves that take on showy pink hues in spring and. The Echeveria ‘Curls’ is a variant of the Blue Curls originally created by Frank Reinelt.

Echeveria blue culrs