Origin and Habitat: Mexico Northeast (Zacatecas).
Type Locality: Between Sombrerete and Fresnillo, c. 40km NW of Fresnillo, about 1km W of highway 45, 23 28 N, 103 01 W
Description: Echeveria cante is a very beautiful species related with Echeveria subrigida, which occurs a considerable distance away to the south and the southeast. It differs from E. subrigida in its greater number of farinose rather than glaucous to pruinose leaves, which are narrower and thicker as well as generally longer than those of E. subrigida and the flowers are distinctly different. It was only recently named though the plant has long been in cultivation misnamed as a form of Echeveria subrigida or under the name Echeveria rosei. The new name name honors the Cante Institute and Botanic Garden in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico
Rosettes: Very large solitary, but occasionally make a few offsets, stemless, that can grow to be quite large as echeverias (about 30-40 cm in diameter)
Leaves: 35-50 (or more in large mature specimens), 15-18 cm long, 6,5-7,5 cm large, flat to slightly concave above, slightly convex below, without keel, pale bluish-green tinged lavender, with a thick powdery whitish lavender coating and with a milky opalescent quality and often with a fine narrow pink-red edge along the leaf margin, and the whole rosette can be tinted lavender under some growing conditions.
Inflorescence: Stalk erect. pruinose reddish, usually solitary 45-60 cm long, with about 5 branches 3-8 cm apart, each with 4-12 flowers; bearing grey leaf bracts soon drying and falling.
Pedicels: 4-17 mm long and 4 mm thick.
Flowers: About. 23 mm long; tube pruinose greyish-lavender, petals 20 mm long, 6-8 mm wide pruinose orange-pink outside, inner surface yellowish.
Stamens: 10 closely appressed to petals with pale yellow pollen.
Stigma: Pale yellowish in lower half, upper half dark red.
Nectaries: Yellowish tinged pink.
Blooming season: Late summer.