They look so alike it's hard to tell them apart, this face-blindness series makes me doubt my eyes

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Some succulent varieties you simply can't name, because they're hybrids. You probably never imagined how intense the interest of many succulent enthusiasts is when it comes to succulent hybridization, for example the Rou ShanDa Mowang below, who has hybridized many succulents, and looking back on transplanting seedlings, can't bear the pain, and especially loves hybridizing with Echeveria elegans (Moon Shadow), because the resulting offspring often win by their looks. Hybridizing succulents doesn't mean that just because A and B cross and produce a succulent with somewhat different traits, it's called a new variety; a new variety still needs several generations to test the stability and heritability of its traits, and the process of determining and popularizing a new variety name is also slow, so many of the new succulents on the market today not only lack English names, but even if they have English names, you may not necessarily be able to find them online. How many "new varieties" of succulents there are, you can get a glimpse from the new succulent varieties below.

The names of the succulent hybrids in this article are just codes, for the convenience of my own memory and communication, not rigorous mature new varieties. Previously I naively used the term new variety, and got schooled by an expert for a month, so let me say this first to ward off criticism.

"Even if 2 people hybridize the same varieties in different locations, the offspring cannot be counted as the same thing," the expert said, so the photos of the parent plants published here are for reference only and cannot be taken as complete evidence, everyone just take a look.

Regarding hybridization, first generation selection, second generation stabilization, third generation verification, every year you can only catch up with flowering plants that also need three years of cold and heat, so to scientifically define a variety requires time. In an economic society, everyone is out to make quick money, including me, having lost the mentality of loving flowers from before, seeing only profit. I hope more succulent friends can truly use time to patiently develop good varieties and select out more beautiful succulents. This may be one of the future trends for succulents.

1. White Moon Shadow x Echeveria laui, 1/10 can carry red leaf tips.

2. Jade Cup x Moon Shadow, the icy edge is bigger and more obvious, the leaf tips are elongated, the leaves are thinner.

3. Xina x Helena, Xina's traits are especially strong, hybridizing with the large icy-edge Moon Shadow basically won't change, next year I can only try swapping the parents.

4. Xina x White Moon Shadow, White Moon Shadow is stronger. Hahaha

5. Original Ice Plum x Moon Shadow. The dark veining is no longer obvious, it was especially ugly when young, but it colors up nicely when grown.

6. Original Jilian hybrid, Jilian hybrids are boring, basically all the same, not as nice-looking as the original species.

7. Crinkled-leaf Moon Shadow x Moon Shadow, it wraps up with just a little water control.

8. Peach, a name I gave it myself.

9. Crinkled-leaf hybrid, wasted an expensive mother plant, I think it's not nice-looking.

10. V3, a sowing number, it has memories, so I just used it as is.

11. Extra White, White Moon Shadow hybrid.

12. White Kratu, a name I gave it myself, thick-leaf hybrid.

13. This one is beautiful, only about 10 of them, several mother plants didn't produce seeds, only one could be pollinated.

14. Also a thick-leaf hybrid.

15. Rivens x Jingye, the mature plant is nice-looking.

16. Yellow Lawrence, a Lawrence hybrid, as a result it only changed its base color, no other change.

17. Guessing it's a hybrid from Jingyue's parents, the icy edge is especially small.

18. Strawberry Ice hybrid, the Strawberry Ice mother plant is also like this, only one could produce seeds, and very few at that, out of more than 20 Strawberry Ice, only a few seeds were produced, the rest were all wasted.

19. Cherry Smoothie, a name I gave it myself.

20. Nova x thin-leaf, this year Nova was hybridized with thin-leaf, Moon Shadow, Jilian, and Echeveria laui; aside from the thin-leaf one being quite outstanding, the others are all less nice-looking than Nova.

21. Banxia, a name I gave it myself, not bad.

22. This one is Moon Shadow hybridized with original Jilian, the icy edge is basically gone.

23. This was sown last year, Helena x Jilian, I'll find a time to start a new post for last year's ones. Once the coloring comes out, the traits are easier to see.

There are also some living alone as models, so I won't describe them one by one, just post the pictures to enjoy.

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