echeverian.
/ɛkiːˈvɪərɪə/ A handsome genus of succulent plants allied to the house-leek (family Crassulaceæ), extensively used in carpet gardening.
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Rochea1819
echeveria1840
snake plant1883
zygocactus1950
mother-in-law's tongue1958
1840 J. Paxton Pocket Bot. Dict.
1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 17 Sept. 3/2 My Londoner, who..likes old friends among the flowers whose names he has got well into his head better than all the Alternantheras and Echeverias.
1883 G. Allen Colin Clout's Cal. 147 It will not away with your modern gloxinias and echeverias.
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