Aeonium canariense fa Anaga - (L) (Webb & Berth.) Leroy
Is the earliest and best known of a group of closely related species.
This plant , when in flower, can be recognised easily by his white flowers and his short and thick stem.
On the Island of Tenerife you can find this plant in the Northern section of the Island, as from Santa Cruz until the extreme Northern point from Chamorga to the Faro de Anaga .
It is a large ( up to 90cm diam.) velvety herb. The thick short stem shaggy with the Brown bases of withered leaves. Leaves loosely rosulated, the inner sub erect, forming a cup; lower leaves spathulated or obovate-spathuate, fresh green to yellow/green, glandular-pubescent on face, back and edges, rounded and mucronate at apex, tapered into a broad foot-stalk, 10 to 20 (45)cm long, 5 to 8 (23)cm broad, soft, fleshy, flat or concave on face, convex on back. Flowering stem 60 to 110 cm high, densely leafy with similar leaves decreasing in size and becoming obovate above. Inflorescence racemose, pyramidal or ovate-pyramidal in outline, 30 to 50 cm long and 25 to 30 cm broad, very lax, of many alternate patent very glandular-hairy branches simple and sparingly bracteated in lower part. Buds broadly ovoid, shortly pointed. Flowers 8 to 10 parted, openly campanulate 1,5cm across, white. Flowering period from March until mid June.
Exists on the South-Western side of the Island the Aeonium canariense fa. Teno. Much smaller and flowering butter yellow.
Is the earliest and best known of a group of closely related species.
This plant , when in flower, can be recognised easily by his white flowers and his short and thick stem.
On the Island of Tenerife you can find this plant in the Northern section of the Island, as from Santa Cruz until the extreme Northern point from Chamorga to the Faro de Anaga .
It is a large ( up to 90cm diam.) velvety herb. The thick short stem shaggy with the Brown bases of withered leaves. Leaves loosely rosulated, the inner sub erect, forming a cup; lower leaves spathulated or obovate-spathuate, fresh green to yellow/green, glandular-pubescent on face, back and edges, rounded and mucronate at apex, tapered into a broad foot-stalk, 10 to 20 (45)cm long, 5 to 8 (23)cm broad, soft, fleshy, flat or concave on face, convex on back. Flowering stem 60 to 110 cm high, densely leafy with similar leaves decreasing in size and becoming obovate above. Inflorescence racemose, pyramidal or ovate-pyramidal in outline, 30 to 50 cm long and 25 to 30 cm broad, very lax, of many alternate patent very glandular-hairy branches simple and sparingly bracteated in lower part. Buds broadly ovoid, shortly pointed. Flowers 8 to 10 parted, openly campanulate 1,5cm across, white. Flowering period from March until mid June.
Exists on the South-Western side of the Island the Aeonium canariense fa. Teno. Much smaller and flowering butter yellow.
