Crassulaceae - Genus Aeonium - Aeonium ciliatum



Aeonium ciliatum (Willd.) Webb & Berth.

Shrub up to 1 meter high mostly branched, sometimes only single stemmed. Stem and branches mostly woody with prominent leaf-scars with in-between small tubercles  . Leaves glabrous in a more or less  lax rosette , green rather tick (5mm) and mostly with red margins, shortly spathulated, the apex apiculate, margin with broad-based cilia, about 10cm long by 5 cm broad. Inflorescences leafy, broadly pyramidal, pubescent (a lot smaller than by A. urbicum) 20/35cm long . Buds conical, twisted. Flowers 7 to 8 parted, greenish-white to pink .

From sea level up to  1400 meter.  On rocks and slopes . Mostly in the Northern part of Tenerife rarely descending near to the Teno region. Also on the Island of La Palma

Often seen in company with the Aeonium urbicum. Freely hybridising with this last species, also exists a hybrid A. ciliatum X A. haworthii   Praeger 1929 - A. ciliatum X holochrysum Praeger 1929 -    A. ciliatum X nobile  Praeger 1929 and A. ciliatum X palmense Praeger.  





on the small road between Roque Negro and Chinamada



Aeonium ciliatum between Roque Negro and Chinamad 
 
Aeonium ciliatum on the way to the Faro de Anaga
 
Aeonium ciliatum on a rooftop without any substrate
 
 

Aeonium ciliatum & Aeonium tabuliforme - Llanos del Draco near Batan
 
Aeonium ciliatum flowering Barr de Afur  
 

Aeonium ciliatum flowering Barr. de Herques
 
 
Aeonium ciliatum in dry season - Chinamada
 
Aeonium ciliatum fa. cristata path Roque Negro to Chinamada

 
 
Aeonium cilatum fa monstruosa Barr de Afur