Strawberry colour with depth
Pink pigments spread across a lilac-green base and shift naturally with the season.
Echeveria 'Morango' 10.5cm — Care & Tips
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The fruitiest succulent in your collection 🍇
Family: Crassulaceae · Pot diameter: 10.5 cm · Height: 12cm
Echeveria ‘Morango’ forms a juicy dense rosette whose colour moves from cool lilac to ripe strawberry pink. Thick leaves carry a soft powdery surface and settle into layers that give the plant a rich, almost edible visual character.
Its vivid yet elegant colour acts as a ready-made focal point and gains additional depth as the rosette matures. This distinctive trade selection appeals to collectors of pastel Echeveria and anyone wanting immediate colour without sacrificing clean geometry.
Three defining details that turn its botanical identity into real presence for a collection and interior.
Pink pigments spread across a lilac-green base and shift naturally with the season.
Fleshy surfaces give the rosette volume while farina maintains the pastel appearance.
The cultivar stands apart from common glaucous forms and acts as an immediate focal point.
Why you’ll love it: it brings ripe strawberry colour and rich fleshy geometry to a rosette that looks luxurious from every angle.
Pair it with white, off-white, lilac or charcoal ceramic and keep the surrounding space uncluttered. The top view best reveals the colour gradient, while side light emphasises leaf thickness. Do not let neighbouring plants rub the bloom.
Pair it with plants that genuinely share its light, substrate and seasonal rhythm. Separate pots keep care precise for each one.
Intense diffused light and gentle direct sun for dense form and clear pink colour.
At the base only after the mix has dried almost completely.
Mild growing seasons, airflow and protection from frost and prolonged overheating.
No reliable cultivar-specific safety record is available; prevent chewing.
Place it in very bright light and introduce morning or late-afternoon sun gradually. Correct light keeps leaves close and strengthens pink tones, while sudden harsh sun causes scorch.
Water at the base once the mix is almost completely dry. Let water pass through and leave immediately without remaining in the crown or beneath lower leaves.
Maintain airflow around the fleshy rosette and remove dry leaves from the base. Avoid misting, which damages farina and holds moisture at contact points.
Growth is strongest in mild temperatures and often slows in extreme heat. Reduce watering frequency then even if the surface dries quickly.
Use a porous succulent mix with a substantial mineral portion in a pot suited to the root ball. An oversized mass of mix dries too slowly.
During active growth, occasional low-nitrogen feeding on moist mix is enough. Excess opens the rosette and shifts colour toward softer green.
Echeveria ‘Morango’ circulates as a genus-level cultivar. Formal cultivar documentation does not define a specific species or parents.
Breeder, place of selection and year of introduction have not been published in a recognised cultivar record. The name remains at genus level without invented genealogy.
‘Morango’ is maintained in cultivation and does not correspond to a wild population. Only the genus Echeveria has a natural range from Texas and Mexico into South America.
From natural habitat to care: Without verified parentage or a wild habitat for the cultivar, care follows what the plant itself reveals: fleshy storage leaves, a powdery epidermis, compact rosette and active growth in mild conditions.
Pigments shift with light, temperature and maturity, so the palette never remains completely fixed.
Surface wax reduces wetting and reflects radiation but is damaged by touch.
Water-rich flesh permits long intervals without uptake, but the roots still require air.
Offsets and cuttings reproduce the selected colour faithfully, unlike genetically variable seed.
Useful answers about light, watering, seasonal rhythm and the plant’s correct identity.
They are not recorded in a recognised cultivar publication, so specific species should not be assigned as parents.
The word means “strawberry” in Portuguese and suits the palette, but the name does not prove a country of origin or parentage.
Light, temperature, season and leaf age alter pigment concentration and the visual effect of farina.
When the mix is almost completely dry and the pot feels distinctly lighter. Water at the base and let it drain.
With very strong safe light, restrained watering and gentle feeding only during active growth.
Natural farina has been rubbed away. It will not fully return on the same leaf, but new growth will be intact.