Plant in full sun with little to occasional irrigation. Hardy to 20-25 F. This is one of the slowest growing and attractive Dyckia that we grow - a choice specimen plant for the garden or pot.

The name for the genus honors Josef Maria Franz Anton Hubert Ignatz (1773-1861), who was the Prince and Earl of Salm Reifferscheid-Dyck and whose family ruled an area west of Cologne and Dusseldorf, Germany. The name is usually seen as Salm-Dyck. Dyckia 'Silver Superstar' likely has another valid name but we named it 'Silver Superstar' to differentiate it as one of many untagged Dyckia forsteriana hybrids dug up and propagated from the Santa Barbara garden of the late Jim Prine. Jim was a landscape contractor and professional animal trainer who purchased many bromeliad hybrids from renowned Dyckia hybridizer Bill Baker of California Gardens Nursery, and we believe this plant to be one of his hybrids. Unfortunately, we could not confirm this before Baker's untimely passing in 2009. To keep it separate from other Dyckia we grow we named it 'Silver Superstar' because of its silver foliage. 

Information displayed on this page about Dyckia 'Silver Superstar' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.