Aeonium

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Aeonium is a genus of about 35 species of succulent, subtropical plants of the family Crassulaceae. Mainly they live at the Canary Islands, some are to find at Madeira, in Morocco and in eastern Africa (for example in the Semien Mountains of Ethiopia).

The rosette leaves are on a stable stem. Low-growing Aeonium species are A. tabuliforme and A. smithii; large species include A. arboreum, A. valverdense and A. holochrysum.

Aeonium are not frost-resistant. They are related to the genera Sempervivum, Greenovia, Aichryson and Monanthes, which is easy to see from their similar flowers.

Aeonium tabuliforme

Saucer-plant (Aeonium undulatum)

Species

• Aeonium aizoon
• Aeonium appendiculatum
• Aeonium arboreum with subspecies
• Aeonium aureum
• Aeonium balsamiferum
• Aeonium canariense
• Aeonium castello-paivae
• Aeonium ciliatum
• Aeonium cuneatum
• Aeonium davidbramwellii
• Aeonium decorum
• Aeonium glutinosum
• Aeonium holochrysum
• Aeonium leucoblepharum
• Aeonium lindleyi
• Aeonium sedifolium
• Aeonium simsii
• Aeonium smithii
• Aeonium spathulatum
• Aeonium tabuliforme
• Aeonium undulatum (Saucer-plant)
• Aeonium urbicum
• Aeonium valverdense

References

• R. Nyffeler, "Aeonium", in Urs Eggli, ed. Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Crassulaceae (Springer, 2003) ISBN 3-540-41965-9

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