So what is this lovely red succulent (??) in my turtle?

[Aridane]

A friend gave me an ornamental earthenware turtle planter for the garden. I shoved a small plant in it years ago which I have ignored and both turtle and plant seem to have survived outside over the years.

Now I've tidied up the garden a bit and the turtle has resurfaced , I see the plant has grown a bit, has had a baby and now fills the pot. It's also a nice reddish colour (though can't remember what it was in the first place).

What is the plant?

I tried various What's My Plant apps but did not get a definitive response.

Any ideas beyond what the apps suggest?

3 pictures - of plant in situ in turtle, a close up, and another picture with a tape measure by it for scale.

Many thanks

One of the (many) echeverias?

surrealsucculents.co.uk/product/aeonium-cornish-rose/

One of these?

It’s lovely whatever it is.

House leek.

Aha - one of the plant apps came up with three echeverias. However, the other apps said they didn't know or that it was a house plant. One came up with 10:suggestions, including that it was a barrel cactus

It's a house leek!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sempervivum

Ooh, the Cornish Rose is lovely, Brie - but my thing is quite a bit older than 2017. Plus is sort of more angular / spiky

Ah, house leek / sempervivum- I guess that would explain its hardiness.

I'll dig out what the app said

Definitely a house leek - sempervivum.

Here's one.

Love your planter and the plant (agree that the latter is a house leek/sempervivum).

Any idea which one? I would love to get some more.

I would quite like to get the baby out to give myself another plant but it's quite tightly wedged in the turtle and don't want to end up destroying both plants

These are the echeveria IDs made by one plant app.

But from what you're saying it's some sort of house leek / sempervivum

(one of the other apps suggested it might be a pineapple🍍 !)

Ah, you've got me doubting myself now! It could be an echevaria. But at least we've narrowed it down - either an echevaria or a sempervivum.

You could take it to a good garden centre and ask them.

This website might help (got me wondering now!):

https://www.drought-smart-plants.com/whats-the-difference-between-sempervivum-and-echeveria.html

Ooh - scurries off to study the article

They’re quite easy to propagate... pull the baby out, leave it to dry for a couple of days then just lay on a small pot of cactus soil or seed compost mixed with sand. Then just stick it on a window sill and feed it some water hardly ever ever. Feed the big one some cactus food. I am a very unknowledgable gardener and all these things have worked for me both with sempervivum and echeveria (the latter especially loves a window sill.

Actually thinking about my sempervivum it is going crazy outside in the cold and rain, which is what that article says, so maybe just leave it out there.

yeah, what Nativity said it's more robust than you think, you can just gently dig it out, detach from the parent.

No teeth! Looks like it's an echeveria then.
(I love Latin names of plants - could just keep on quoting them...)