Big plant out of the Canariense group with rosettes up to and over 100cm!!! Easily distinguished from
from its allies by its glabrous leaves, which in shade or when Young are glaucous. The flowers of the tall pyramidal inflorescence are full yellow, not whitish as in canariense, nor rather pale yellow as by virgineum.
Stem very short, or decumbent. Rosettes very large, up to and over 100 cm across, the inner leaves forming a cup. Leaves rigid, glabrous, glaucous in shelter or when young, elongate-cuneate, broadest near apex, up to 35 cm long and 10cm broad above and 5cm broad at the base, acute and mucronate at apex, margins finely and evenly ciliate with patent crowded almost cylindrical Blunt hyaline cilia. Offsets few, strong, horizontal, on leafy stems up to 35 cm long. Flower stem terminal, up to 110cm long or even more, very leafy with decreasing leaves. Inflorescence takes about 1/3 of the flower stalk, 40/60 cm long, elongate-conicalin outline, with alternate glandular-hairy branches. Flowers 8 to 9 parted, golden, flat
Flowering April-June
Is a Tenerife endemic and can be found on the North-Eastern and North Western ends of the Island sometimes in company of the Aeonium canariense mostly among bushes at about 450 up to 1100 meter high.
This species can hybridise with the Aeonium urbicum and the Aeonium canariense.
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