hen and chicks

English
Echeveria elegans

Noun

hen and chicks (uncountable)

  1. Succulent plants with smaller buds on the outside which later produce their own roots, of family Crassulaceae:
    1. especially, Sempervivum (houseleeks, syn. Jovibarba) spp.
    2. Other plants of genera Echeveria, Sedum, and Bergenia.

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