Crassulaceae - Genus Aeonium - Aeonium haworthii

Aeonium haworthii Salm-Dijck ex Webb & Bert.

Tenerife endemic.

Subshrub, densely  branching 60/80 cm high. Rough stems, slender, ascending or pendent +/- 4mm diam., brownish-grey with many adventitious roots. Bark generally longitudinal fissured.  

Grows mainly  on rocks and rocky slopes from 250m up to 1250m altitude.

N - N.W - N.E side of the island of Tenerife, Masca, Buena Vista , Los Silos , Los Gigantes , Chinamada, Chamorga, Faro de Teno, El Palmar, Las Lagunetas, Las Portelas and possible Malpais de Candelaria(??)

Fleshy leafs in  rosettes of  6-11cm diam.  Leaves obovate, acuminate towards the apex, green/glaucous with the margins ciliate and reddish purple.

Inflorescence hemispherical and more or less lax, flowers 8-9 parted pink or white with pink streaks.

Flowering March until half July.

Named after the British gardener and entomologist Adrian Haworth (1768-1833)

Hybridise easily with A. ciliatum , A. urbicum , A. sedifolium and (rare) with Greenovia dodrentalis.   

 
Aeonium haworthii - Cruz de Cilda
 
Aeonium haworthii - El Palmar  &
Opuntia ficus-indica
 
Aeoniup haworthii -  Cruz de Cilda
 
Aeonium haworthii - El Palmar
 
Aeonium haworthii - Los Carizales
 
Aeonium haworthii - El Palmar
 
Aeonium haworthii - Teno Alto
 
Aeonium haworthii - Teno Alto
 
Aeonium haworthii - look diff. flowers
Teno Alto

Aeonium haworthii - look diff. flowers
El Palmar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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