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Hechtia gayorum
Hechtia gayorum is a small desert bromeliad from Baja California Sur, Mexico, and the only monoecious species in its genus. It is grown for its red-tinted, spiny rosette leaves and needs very sharp drainage and plenty of sun.
Hechtia gayorum is a species of plant in the genus Hechtia and is the only monoecious species within the genus. It is known commonly as the Gay hechtia. This species is endemic to a small region west of San José del Cabo in Baja California Sur, Mexico.
Ed and Betty Gay of Tarzana, Los Angeles, California initially discovered the species in 1968 in a canyon west of San José del Cabo. The couple collected propagules and gave them to the Huntington Library, who subsequently introduced the plants into cultivation under Hechtia montana as the cultivar 'Burgundy', in reference to the red coloring of the leaves on the cultivated plants.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Hechtia gayorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
