Species · genus Echeveria · Crassulaceae

Ghost Echeveria

Echeveria lilacina Kimnach & Moran

Also known as: Mexican Hens-and-chicks

Growth habit

succulent subshrub

Native range

Mexico Northeast

Reference · E. lilacina

Cultivars of E. lilacina

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No named cultivars catalogued under E. lilacina yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

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Echeveria lilacina is a rosette-forming succulent subshrub from the arid highlands of northeastern Mexico, so it stores water in its leaves and rots if kept wet. Give it gritty, fast-draining mix and bright direct light, and water deeply only once the soil has dried out completely. Wait until the lower leaves feel slightly soft or the top of the mix is bone-dry several inches down before watering again.

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Direct sun

Water

≈ every 28 days

Humidity

Low — average room

Temperature

10–27 °C

Soil mix

Gritty, fast-draining cactus and succulent mix

Propagation

Leaf cuttings, callused then rooted in dry mix; slow to root

Fertilizing

Dilute succulent feed once or twice in spring and summer

Growth rate

Slow

Flowering

Coral bells on curved stalks in winter to spring

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 14-28d) · ai:claude-fable-5

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