Aeonium urbicum (Chr.Smith ex Hornemann)Webb & Berth.
Nice unbranched, monocarpic shrub, 60 - 250cm high with a great terminal pyramid, up to 80cm long, of greenish-white flowers who are 9- to 10 parted. Leaves in broad, dense apical rosette, narrowly oblanceolate, glabrous, pale green to blue-glaucous, red-edged; margins ciliate.
Is endemic to Tenerife and his distribution reaches as from Anaga to Teno. We find this plant as follows : Puerto de la Cruz, La Orotava, Icod de los Vinos, Los Silos, El Palmar, Tegueste, Santiago del Teide, Masca and very frequent on walls and roofs in the La Laguna district. From sea-level up to 1850 meter.
Flowering period is from February to September.
Hybridisation frequently with surrounding other Aeonium such as A. canariense, A. ciliatum, A. haworthii and A. holochrysum.
The unbranched form of A.ciliatum on the island of La Palma has often been mistaken as an Aeonium urbicum.
The A. urbicum var. meridionale with his white-pinkish flowers grows more in the south of the island.
Aeonium urbicum - Barr. del Infierno
Aeonium urbicum Mirador Don Martin
Aeonium urbicum - stem diam. over 7cm
Aeonium urbicum - Growing in a wall (Masca)
Aeonium urbicum growing on a roof (Masca)
Aeonium urbicum - growing and flowering on a wall (El Palmar)
Aeonium urbicum injured by faling rock and making triple headed - Santiago del Teide
Aeonium urbicum flowering
Aeonium urbicum fa giganteum - Willy is over 1.85m so makes plant over 2.5meter
Aeonium urbicum fa giganteum - Alois is over the 1.80m so plant makes over 2.40m
Aeonium holochrysum X Aeonium urbicum Santiago del Teide
Aeonium urbicum X canariense - 2009
Aeonium urbicum X canariense 2011
Aeonium urbicum X canariense 2011
Aeonium urbicum X canariense 2011
