Crassulaceae - Genus Monanthes - Monanthes laxiflora


 Monanthes  laxiflora  (DC.) Bolle

Plant with a lot of synonyms !!!

Sedum laxiflorum - Petrophyes agriostaphis - Sempervivum agriostaphis - Monanthes agriostaphis - Sempervivum agriostaphis and Monanthes microbotrys.

A very variable plant, erect and tufted or dwarf and creeping, or hanging in stresses, 30cm long, on cliffs. The leaves up to 25mm long, 15mm broad and 10mm thick, are varying from almost globular to lanceolate, colour from deep green to purple/red, or in the drought period or heavy sun exposition nearly white to silvery. The inflorescence from tall and multiple flowered to very small  and few flowered. The flowers also vary in size and colour from greenish-yellow to greenish-purple up to brown-red.

It is quite often seen in cultivation. The name refers to its lax inflorescence.

Flowering from beginning March until end of May. In culture, depending of location, flowering from May until end of July.

Location : Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Gomera, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote. Until now never seen on the two most western islands El Hierro and La Palma. Mostly growing on rocks and roofs from nearly see level up to 1800 meter.

Hybridisation with different other members of this genus with whom they grow together.

Very close to the Monanthes anagensis with which it often grows together and so possible hybridisation (region Chamorga)

 Monanthes laxiflora - fa rubra

 Monanthes laxiflora fa rubra

 Monanthes laxiflora

 Monanthes laxiflora

 Monanthes laxiflora - red and yellow flowers on one plant

 Monanthes laxiflora

 
Monanthes laxiflora and Mon. polyphylla (hybridisation!!)

Monanthes laxiflora fa rubra

Monanthes laxiflora

Monanthes laxiflora

Monanthes laxiflora

 Monanthes laxiflora fa rubra

Monanthes laxiflora

Monanthes laxiflora

Monanthes laxiflora fa rubra
 
Monanthes laxiflora wax cover on leaves

Monanthes laxiflora wax cover on leaves
Monanthes laxiflora wax cover on leaves 
Monanthes laxiflora wax cover on leaves

 
 

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