The Original Story of Echeverias in Australia
Bev Spiller

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WRIGHT'S HYBRIDS (part 2)

As in the previous feature page, I have depicted some more of Dick Wright's Echeveria hybrids, that I have in my collection.
With all the everpresent confusion as to " Which is What ? " and who REALLY knows, it is encouraging for collectors, to at least be able to identify these plants.
With few other exceptions, these and Butterfield's plants are the only named hybrids that can, actually be verified now.Dr Butterfield was a friend of Dick Wright's father, [also a nurseryman,] and Dick learned from him in his earlier days of hybridising.. Over the last two years, I have sent a number of photos to Dick,to establish which are the correct plants for the name.
Many thousands of un-named Gibbiflora hybrids were wholesaled to other nurseries by Wright's during the earlier years...those nurseries then named these plants for re-sale, which in a lot of cases, accounted for me getting the same plant by a different name from different nurseries. I usually kept the plants by the first name I received them by.

While the commercial nursery does not exist anymore, Dick is still hybridising Echeverias at his home. I am privileged to have many of these in my collection and proud to be able to showcase them here.

He is master of the carunculated forms. His first one... E. 'Paul Bunyon' a cross between E. gibbiflora carunculata and E. ' Edna Spencer,' with singular carunculations. Among the more recent hybrids is the spectacular E. ' Linguas', virtually a totally carunculated plant, even the new leaves .

 

	Alta May
	Cameo
	Derena
	Leucotricha cv 'Frosty '
	Madamoiselle
	Mahogany Rose
	Meridian ( originally Katella )
	Pappy's Rose
	Paul Bunyan
	Petticoat
	Rain Drops
	Ramillete
	Silveron Red
	Sundancer
	Tippy
	Pagoda
	Virginia Lee
	War Dance
	Boton
	Bumps
	Campfire
	Cinderella 11
	Doublette
	Goliath
	Linguas
	Oddity
	Orchid Flare
	Veruga
	Xanthena

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