Mexican snowball
Echeveria elegans Rose
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 10 cm
- wide
- 30 cm
Crassulaceae
Also called Mexican Snowball
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Succulent subshrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NE. Mexico (to Veracruz)Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; RHS full
- Height
- 10 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 10 cm to 51 cmRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- Yellow, pinkRead from NC State Extension and RHS, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension orange, pink, yellow; RHS pink, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -2.8 °C (USDA zone 9b)Read from NC State Extension and RHS, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -6.7 °C; RHS 1 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Spanish
- Rosa de alabastro, Conchita de Hidalgo, Repollito
- Portuguese
- Rosa-de-pedra
- Czech
- dužnatka ozdobná, pupovice ozdobná
- Chinese (China)
- 美丽石莲花, 月影, 红边月影
- Chinese
- 美麗石蓮花, 月影, 墨西哥雪球
- Japanese
- ツキカゲ（月影）
- Finnish
- sinimehiruusuke
- Slovak
- echevéria úhľadná
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-28, fact, cited
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Echeveria elegans (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.