Echeveria 'Dark Vader' f. crestata

This beautiful succulent in its crested form represents a unique exemplar of its kind: its fan crest is always different in different specimens, making each of them very sought after by collectors around the world. In the normal form this plant, created in nurseries by the crossing of E. 'Topsy Turvy' and E. 'Black Prince', presents the compact rosette arrangement with folded leaves on themselves and upwards, so much to show the lower surface with a wavy and extremely elegant. While the shape resembles very much to E. 'Topsy Turvy', on the other hand the very dark coloring of the epidermis, which in cold periods turns towards a real black enriched by reddish shades on the tips, is very similar to E. 'Black Prince'.