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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