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A fairly large growing cultivar with greyish-purple leaves. Raised by Ed Skrocki in the USA and introduced in 1973. Horst Diehm said: "olive-green rosettes, lighter in the centre, mahogany-red tips, leaves elongated-lanceotile, retains colour in winter, flower pinkish-red 25-30 cm." Erwin Geiger is quoted on Sempervivum List: "olive-green rosettes, lighter in the centre, mahogany-red tips, leaves elongated-lanceotile, retains colour in winter, flower pinkish-red 25-30 cm, a seedling of 'Atroviolaceum'" The AGS encyclopedia online says: "Large rosettes of a grey-purple. New growth in early summer can be a brighter glowing purple." |
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