Echeveria lilacina
# 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.

## Description

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.

## 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.

lilacina means 'lilac-colored'.

