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A rather ordinary little brown thing. The name means emerald which mine never was. I was well disposed to smile at it benignly
but it failed to produce a decent clump or colony outside and adult rosettes rotted easily. The original cultivar was raised by Goos and Koenemann
in Germany in 1937 but there is now an impostor also being distributed under the name. Horst Diehm said: "brown rosettes, green tips, purple-brown-red hint, blossom dark pink, 15 cm" Erwin Geiger is quoted on Sempervivum List: "A name with many faces. Often, the picture label of this variety was quickly put into the pots in wholesale. We have three different forms in culture." I bought mine from a local nursery but it is not well-loved in the commercial trade. |
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| 25th June 2005 | ||
