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Home > Products > Succulent Page > Hechtia argentea   Hechtia argentea   Hechtia argentea at Aloes in Wonderland in Santa Barbara   Hechtia argentea is a rare bromeliad that comes from dry cliffs and canyons in the Mexican State of Querétaro. It has a beautifully symmetrical and full rosette of slightly reflexed silver leaves (actually green but covered in silver scales) with faint red mottling and an erect inflorescence with clusters of small white flowers. The specific epithet means "silver" in Latin. This old specimen originally from Bill Baker's California Gardens Nursery is growing at Jeff Chemncik's Aloes In Wonderland garden in the Santa Barbara foothills. This beautiful plant was the seed parent with Hechtia marnier-lapostollei as the pollen parent for the hybrid we introduced called Hechtia 'Silver Star'. Hechtia argentea is also the seed parent with Hechtia lanata of the hybrid Jeff Chemnick made that he calls 'Silver Tongued Devil'.