Echeveria lilacina

Echeveria lilacina, common name ghost echeveria or Mexican hens and chicks, is a species of succulent plants in the genus Echeveria belonging to the family Crassulaceae.

Echeveria lilacina
Echeveria lilacina at the botanical garden of Villa Durazzo-Pallavicini, Genova Pegli
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Echeveria
Species:
E. lilacina
Binomial name
Echeveria lilacina
Kimn. & Moran

Description
Flowers of Echeveria lilacina

Echeveria lilacina can reach a height of about 15 cm. The leaves are silvery-grey, spoon shaped, fleshy and arranged in a symmetrical rosette of 12–25 cm of diameter. This species is slow growing and drought-tolerant. Flowers are pale pink or coral-colored. They emerge on small short arching racemes on the top of reddish stems of about 15 cm. Flowering period extends from later winter to early spring.

Distribution

This species is native to Nuevo Leon, in northern Mexico.

Habitat

Echeveria lilacina grows on rocky areas at quite high elevations.

Cultivation

Echeveria lilacina is cultivated as an ornamental plant, for use in gardens, and as a potted plant.[1]

Etymology

The genus name Echeveria was given in honor of the 18th century Mexican botanist and painter Atanasio Echeverría y Godoy, famous for his paintings of plants, many of which were included in Flora Mexicana.[2]

lilacina means 'lilac-colored'.[2]

References
  1. San Marco Growers treatment: Echeveria lilacina
  2. Gledhill, David (2008). "The Names of Plants". Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521866453 (hardback), ISBN 9780521685535 (paperback). pp. 149, 237


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