Echeveria vs. Sempervivum vs. Aeonium vs. Graptopetalum vs. Graptoveria
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- How to differentiate common types of succulents. All these plant groups are very diverse, however, so it can be difficult to identify these with 100% certainty. However, the guidelines I discuss can usually point you in the right direction.
I didn't mention sedums in this video because, as far as I can tell, there's no way to visually identify them. Sometimes they can look like echeverias, like clover, like graptopetalums, or like strange alien plants that don't resemble anything else. Sedums are a very common kind of succulent, however, so it's good to know that they exist. (Upon further reflection, the unidentified plant in this video is probably some sort of sedum. I'll update this if I find out what it is.)
Check out my other videos:
Aeonium "kiwi": • Aeonium "kiwi": four ways
Echeveria "perle von nurnberg" : • How to tell if your ec...
Plants in this video:
Echeveria elegans davesgarden.com...
Echeveria "Perle von nurnberg" davesgarden.com...
Echeveria "Lola" davesgarden.com...
Echeveria "Black Prince" davesgarden.com...
Graptoveria "Debbie" davesgarden.com...
Graptopetalum amethystinum davesgarden.com...
Aeonium "Kiwi" davesgarden.com...
Echeveria runyonii "Topsy turvy" davesgarden.com...
Sepmervivum "Red rubin" davesgarden.com...
Haworthia cuspidata davesgarden.com...
Plants mentioned but not shown:
Aeonium sunburst davesgarden.com...
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Being the extreme novice that I am, this video was very informative & much appreciated!! Thanks!!👍🏼😊
succulents are a terrible addiction, unfortunately I found. Once you get one, you can never go back. You'll want one more, and then two more, then you'll say oh I'll collect some aloes, cressulas, oh these sedums are cute, oh my god I want that echeveria and it will go like this. These have an addiction magic with them I've never experienced with another plant before. I've been growing plants since from 2005, and now after getting some succulents this year, I cant stop buying more each week.
Wow, so enjoyable to see these and how awesome you explain their similarities and differences. Thanks so much. You showed a wonderful range of colors. I love them all. Some I had not seen before.
Your succulent videos are great! I've been looking for a decent side-by-side comparison like this for a long time, especially with this particular family.
@sprucible I realized last night that I was completely lost in trying to identify my growing collection of succulents. Your video is very helpful! Thank you!
I love all your succulent videos! Very informative, honest & clear video close up of what it looks like. If you have a chance please show how you look after them, the amount of light, water etc for all your different succulents.
+ing JONG Thanks for you kind words! I'm definitely planning to make more videos this spring and summer. =)
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This really helped me identify the plants i own! I thought they were all echeveria but now i know i have all 4 types. Thankyou so much very informative. Also your gloves are adorable
That ruffled one is so pretty!!!! Thankyou for this video
Good job! A couple things to add: You can also tell apart the sempervivum from the echeveria by the margins of the leaves. Sempervivum tends to have fuzzy margins like an aeonium, while the echeverias do not. Sempervivums are monocarpictoo, not just aeoniums.
Your gift plant at the end looks like a pachyphytum compactum or some other pachyphytum.
What do you mean when you say "fuzzy margins" when talking about the Sempervivum?
@@nannetteaustin2308 The margin is the edge of the leaf. There are tiny hair-like serrations on sempervivum and aeonium.
@@danield8258 Thank you! That is very helpful. :)
I like this video so much! Thank you for explaining the differences. Very useful for newbie like me
Outstanding! You did a fantastic job!
Thank you:)
What a beautiful collection of succulents. Thanks for sharing 👍😊❤️
I watch lots of your video here in England. I this one I was surprised you didn't mention Aeoniums , mostly have serrated or toothed edges to the leaves; many of the Howarthia are " window leaves" having a lighter colour patches to allow the light in..like a window on every leaf
Thank you. So important for me to know and pronounce correctly these succulents .... too many videos on planting ,care... that's easy ...but no one slows down and PRONOUNCES the scientific name.... thank you.
Thank you for this tutorial! I keep going back to it so that I get the differences down.
Thanks so much for the explanation! It helps me a lot. It would be great to see more of your beauties 🌷
I feel like, in my experience, sempervivums tend to be slightly more tender, as they're from alpine Europe. That is, of course, why they're hardy.. Semps can handle full sun and will die in shade I find. Also, cuttings of sempervivums are best done with some roots attached. Otherwise I find they rot or dry quickly.
Echeveria tend to be a little more hardy, but prone to sunburn. Except for E. Sahara, agavoides, "Set Olivier", Black Prince/Knight, and harmsii. Possibly imbricata and a few others. Many of the larger ruffled echeveria like more sun.
Graptos prefer more sun but can handle shade and partial sun.
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thank you for the great effort you took to make this for us to learn. it was indeed so helpful.
I live in Las Vegas and water my aeoniums daily which I know sounds like a lot but today it was 110 degrees and the pots sit on the ground. While not needing daily watering they certainly do appreciate it. I have a golden Rain Barrel Cactus which is the biggest one I've ever seen. It is approximately 20 inches high. If not for all the needles it would be a perfect height for me to sit on. It was planted approximately 30 years ago. But my all-time favorite are the Agaves. But they can be quite deadly, what with those huge needles on the tips of the leaves as well as all those shorter needles all along the leaves. My biggest one of that is probably three-and-a-half to four feet tall. It's blue and is in a medium brown pot and that is sitting on the ground near the back wall which I had painted sort of a chocolatey Brown. I really like blue and brown together. And it looks stunning, the blue leaves against the Brown wall.
The mystery plant you can't identify may be a Sedeveria Hybrid called "Harry Butterfield". It's a hybrid between a Sedum Morganianum and Echeveria derenbergil. I just picked one up myself and it looks very similar. Thanks for this video!
Phuong Tran i was looking for this name for so long. Thank you so much
I'm sure it is a Pachyphytum. It could be a Compactum or Little Jewel or something very similar. It grows up where butterfueld us a big donkeys tail and grows down. But I could be wrong 🤗
Hi,
you can easily differetiate haworthias from other succulents too, it's even easier to tell the difference between a haworthia and an echeveria than between an echeveria and a graptopetalum. So, haworthias usually can have two forms. On one hand they can have very pointy darker green leaves forming a rosette and they are often covered with white dots, like the "haworthia margaritifera", but on the other hand they can have leaves with little "windows" on top, and they can form a rosette like the haworthia emelyae, or they can be next to each other forming a line like the "haworthia truncata". The leaves are usually darker green, but if they are exposed to direct sun for about an hour every day, they can get a reddish color, but it's okay. Of course there are haworthias, witch don't fit in my description, but usually it's just like this.
Thanks for the explanation! I have a weird windowed succulent whose name I always forget, but I bet it's a haworthia based on what you've said. Maybe I'll make a video showing some examples now that I know this rule of thumb. Thanks!
sprucible
I'm glad I was able to help. I have a succulent collection, mainly echeverias, sempervivums and echeveria hybrids, but i have some haworthias too, and this is my opinion on them. Maybe I'm wrong, but i think it's just like I said. :)
Very helpful 'Sprucible'. Thanks for your contribution!
Thank you for your short lesson in identifying these beauties...
from 1 succulent sarah to another- good job! :) I hate hearing my own voice (haha, I am sure others do too!) so I am not as hip on the videos etc, so thanks for not having an annoying voice and posting this vid! Def helpful
The one you called Echeveria elegans/"Mexican snowball" looks so different than the ones I've seen before and my own (just the color is similar). Maybe it was mistakenly labeled as one? Timestamp 4:04. Anyways, nice video, would have loved if you included pachyphytum and sedum also (even though sedums come in so many shapes that it may be hard to find similarities, maybe that they grow longer stalks and are way less compact than the others)! :D
You're the best, very informative video. Thanks again, Merry Christmas🎄☃🎉
Tnks u vy mush for yuh help any help on the topic is appointed. I just started plant dem n I don't know anything about dem .I like in Trinidad n what ever I can find in my local plant shop don't carry any names with dem love u keep it up
love the video, great succulent plants. just starting to learn how to care for succulents. also start my collections. i have been looking for sempervivium (the one with brown leafy tip). wondering where you get it?
Thank you for sharing this video , I learned a lot!
Great video, thank you for the wonderful info. I have 800 succulents all over my (very small) house, I don't want to crank the heat up in the greenhouse until it gets a little warmer. It's a mess trying to wade through them!
Love your video and succulents. Aeonium is my favorite.👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
Thank you for this video, it was helpful and informative! :)
Oh I needed this video been trying to figure the difference between them for ages. Ty. That semprevivum u have on the terracotta pot mine keep jumping out of the pot 🙈 any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
Very helpful thanks. In my opinion, haworthias look like stunned, chunky, perfectly shiny aloe plants
It is a very diverse group. Some look similar to Buddha temple, others are spiky curling out like an aloe. One thing they all have in common is they have 2 or 3 fat white roots that it lives off when it is going through the dormant stage. These dry, shrivel up and rot away as new ones replace them.
Thank you, this video was great to help me figure out what I have 🌱🌵❤️
Such a helpful video! Thank you so much!
Yes, I can differenciate them better now, thank you
Something about your video gives me motion sickness!
I think it may be the weird zoom/fish eye effect.
Great video though! I'm super keen to get a few Echeveria now.
jonest6151 I think its that you are genetically inferior.
jonest6151 Moving the camera too fast and jumping I around can cause the dizziness. Try moving it slower.
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looks like warp stabilisation to me. either that or an export issue.
Great video! Thank you this was really helpful for me☺️
Just getting started with succulents . So many varieties . Maybe you can poise your setup for keeping all your plants . Enjoyed your presentation . Were you in your kitchen . Don't have much room . Do you grow your plants under grow lights or shade cloth ?
Very helpful! Thanks a lot for sharing! Also, such beautiful plants, really lovely, shapes and colors
Thank you!! Helpful and timely =). Could the last one maybe be another similar one, a Pachyphytum? They seem similar too.. and I can't tell those from Graptopetalums =/
Thank you so much, this was the most informative video I've seen to date! The way you broke it down into families, if you will, explained it so easily. Now I know my succulents are from three different families. I was so confused until now 🌱😍
Your E. "Black Prince" looks more like E. "Black Knight" to me.
+EarthsGeomancer agreed.
that was my very first conversation of this video. I'm certain its a black knight. I have three of them :)
I think "Prince" has more diamond, angular leaves; almost like a grapto paraguayense leaf. "Knight" is more pointed like yours :) I call them by the same lol.
You may have a Echeveria 'Black Knight'. It's similar to the Black Prince but the leafs are slimmer than the Black Prince.
Pachyveria glauca 'Little Jewel' succulent plant does look like your mystery plant. You have a beautiful collection. Where do you find those ruffled Echeverias?
The new one you got May be a pachyphytum
+Jose Oro Just stumbled across this video and was about to suggest the same. Could also be Pachyveria.
it is pachyphytum
Plants are usually classified by flower structure. flower structure is the overwhelming characteristic by which plants are classified. There are a few other secondary characteristics but the flower structure is probably 80 or 90% of the classification of flowering plants.
hi, love your garden!! where do you live? they do so well outside- what season was this video in?
This was helpful! Thank you :)
Hermosa tu coleccion y tu explicacion,tienes muy buena voz tambien aunque no alcance a tracucir todo,felicidades,sos muy buena maestra
By chance do you know which ones are winter hardy🙏🏼😌🪴 I appreciate you sharing your knowledge of succulents💞
I don't offhand, but there's a rule of thumb that is helpful. If a succulent has thicker leaves, it can hold more water than one with thinner leaves. And if that water freezes, the ice can damage the internal cell structure of those leaves: the plant can't absorb the water properly (after it melts) and so that moisture makes it rot, thus harming or killing it. So succulents with thinner leaves are generally more freeze-tolerant than those with thicker leaves. There are probably other ways that winter harms some succulents too, but this rule can help you rule some out. So aeoniums and sempervivums definitely have a better shot than most graptopetalums, for example.
Very helpful!
Ugh I wish I could have aeoniums but I live in a zone 13 and it's not a very good location for them. They either get sunburned or it's just way too hot for them anyways. Yours look _so_ pretty though, I wish I could have mine even close to that size!
Thanks, awesome info. 🌼🌺🌸
Graptopetalum are supposedly cold hardy to 20 degrees so they can be grown in Atlanta and Dallas south.
Really helpful thank you
So I guess I have Etcheverria, Sempervivum and Aenium in my pots. I also learnt I have some Aptenia cordifolia, Crassula and Delosperma (Corpuscularia) lehmannii from another video. I just have one left I haven't found any information about yet, but I won't give up. Wish me the best XD
An app called PictureThis has been helpful to ID plants for me. It does cost some $$ though.
Do you know where the term, "rule of thumb" comes from? While you are educating me about the difference in these plants, I will attempt to educate you about this phrase. "Rule of thumb" comes from a time when women / wives were considered to be a possession of a man, like a cow or house would be, and he was allowed to beat the woman with a stick 'no larger than his thumb', hence "rule of thumb". I like to use the term, 'general rule'. Thanks
most echeverias have that beautiful curvy petal
with the sharpish point
Just FYI sempervivums are also monocarpic. Also the second last plant looks like Echeveria tolimanensis (there is a lot of variation in the looks), but because it is still small could be Pachyphytum compactum (can't see from the distance).
+Karolina Healy Thanks for the info! It seems that my sempervivums almost never flower (even though my echeverias do all the time), so I've never had occasion to notice that they were also monocarpic.
I love all your succulents 😍
Thank you for your video 😄
There's so few varieties of Haworthia they're pretty easy to figure out.
Ty ! This video is so helpful!
Perfect! I love succulents. But when I go pick one out I'm not sure if the stem is going to grow or if it's going to stay looking like a rosette and just get larger and that's my situation.👉👵👈 by the way I subscribed to your Channel😉
Thanks! I actually talk about that stem vs. rosette situation in this video, which you may find helpful: th-cam.com/video/lGlCoM9MVLk/w-d-xo.html
I like how you wear gloves
I need to do that just because my hands are ugly and will take away from focal point lol
cada planta tiene su propia belleza y no tienen q estar en contra besos y saludos de Mexico.
hi i have echeria kind of plant ... it's like a lotus with thick& big green leaves with purple edges... do any of u know the name of the plant...
Do you grow all these inside? I have all mine outside in sunlight all day. Do you need to keep them by a sunny window? Lastly I love your granite..what is its name?
+Baby Bear No, these are definitely grown outside! I just brought them in for the video because I didn't want the wind to mess up the sound. I do have a little experiment going with some indoor/outdoor succulents that I'm planning to make a video about in the future, and I have those under a grow light with a timer. In my experience, a sunny window has to be really, really, REALLY sunny for succulents to flourish at all. And sadly, I'm afraid I don't know the name of the granite - it was added before we moved here. But thanks, and I'm glad you like it! =)
A nice job!
One more thing sempervivums are monocarpic
Little jewel I believe patchivaria?
This was a very interesting video thank you! I have a question is this possible to propagate sempervivum via their leaves? Since they're "thinner" than echeveriae, is this more difficult, even impossible?
LoSJK from what I have read and tried myself, sempervivum do not propagate from leaves, only new pups. Good luck and also thanks sprucible for your video, I have about 36 cuttings I got that I’m trying to name, so your video is very helpful
Where you get those neat corful skull like planters
Thanks! for info 🌼🌸🌺
Graptoveria "Debbie"... who named it? That's my name...lol
what does it mean when the echavarria gets dry dead leaves underneath or when it gets kinda mushy leaves on the under part? btw you must be great with remembering peoples names...do you work in the plant industry and say those names often?
+Baby Bear Mushy leaves usually mean too much water (or not enough airflow). If the mushy part starts to rot, it can be VERY bad, and you should completely cut off the mushy part with a sharp and clean knife. Dry, papery leaves at the base are a natural part of the growing process and are nothing to worry about. (You can just tear them off if you want.) And I don't actually work in the plant industry - I'm just interested in succulents. =)
I like the snowball one
the one you got as a gift looks a lot like echeveria hookerii
wonderful and helpful video! many thanks to you! My echeveria bottom leaves seem healthy but I am wondering why they seem to be growing downward at the base. the whole plant is healthy, this seems odd tho.
+Gina Haffie It's hard to be sure without seeing a picture, but echeverias can do different things with changes in water or light. (Or changes in that particular plant's growing season even if the water and light are held constant.) If you can post a photo on imgur or something and put a link in a reply, I'll be glad to take a look and give you my two cents.
+sprucible shoot. I uploaded pick on Google + can't upload one here I guess.
Gina Haffie FYI, I think you can post a link here, but I was able to see it by clicking on your name (which takes me to your Google+ page). I've observed that with my own echeverias they seem to "open" more (with the oldest leaves pointing downwards sometimes) when they have a healthy amount of water (or also too much water) and they close up somewhat when they are underwatered. That's my guess, though that really comes only from my anecdotal experience rather than something I read somewhere. In any case, I definitely don't think it's anything to worry about in the absence of other worrying issues.
Oooh thank you ✨🌺 what a sweet pea you are! I appreciate you're time and thoughts!
Well I under watered and kept her healthy over the winter dormant months! That makes sense! The pot seems a good size, otherwise I could replant and lift up, but I don't want to fix what's not really broken!
Your videos are awesome and helped me identify my echeveria vs semphervia etc. I have the finger jade with red top succulent as well. I just repotted the semp with the crassula! Hoping that goes well.
Much appreciation .... I hope your health and spring are happy and continue to bloom! Yay!!! Be well!
it was brighter deeper green now that you mention under-watered. It is hard to tell over/under h20 - they look similiar! huh -- thanks again. we'll see if it blooms up/out a bit more now.
As someone with an engineering perspective, I find your posts on succulents extremely educational. Why are you not posting anymore? Are you on any of the plant forums like Gardenweb/Houzz?
Thank you for your kind words! Mostly because my life is a lot busier than it used to be. This gives me less time to keep my garden photogenic and also less time to make videos. Fortunately, succulents can get by for quite a long time with minimal care, though not quite as beautifully. I occasionally post on Houzz if I see a question I'm uniquely qualified to answer, but not too often. If you have any more questions, though, feel free to ask!
@@sprucible If your Houzz account is not a secret, please post it and I can follow you there. I hope you get back to posting about succulents in the future.
I have a succulent that I cant tell for sure what it is.. either echevaria lucita or grapto debbie... I wish I could post a photo for assistance!
+Sally OMally Try www.reddit.com/r/succulents/ . There's a pretty active community there that identifies succulents all the time.
+sprucible hi there, the plant that you showed before the haworthia is, as far as i know belongs to the pachyverias,, its called pachyveria glauca "little jewel", so its a hybrid of echeveria and pachyphytum :p
You sound like Zatanna from Young Justice so I decided to subscribe
thank you x
Your Aeoniums aren't leggy. They are Areonium Arboreum meaning they are a tree like. They are not the victims etiolation.
Love it
Very informative!
brava
Tq..
Yee
*echeveria is superior, fight me*
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Most haworthia have "windows" on the leaves one little thing that helps me :)
They get leggy because they are not getting enough light
Aeonium always develop branches; that is their normal growth habit. It has nothing to do with light deprivation.
The 'Echeveria' is not pronounced as 'Etcheveria'. Please correct your video. Misinformation doesn't help.
how boring, just star-shaped succulents
Informative. However, it didn't need to be 11 minutes long. You say a lot of filler talk when in fact you can get straight to the point.
Alan Gomez this wasn't a nature documentary. If you want "straight to the point" then just use Google. You know, she didn't have to make this at all...
Great video thank you!!!