Aeonium virgineum
Aeonium virgineum
20cm, grows in half-shaded rock crevices in the upper mountain ranges of Gran Canaria. It makes compact, cup shaped rosettes with highly succulent and slightly pubescent leaves, which are sticky and show a pleasant balsam scent. Rosettes will reach up to 30cm/11.8" in diameter and develop a huge, cylindrical, sulphurous yellow inflorescence of about 0.5m/19.5" in height (!) in April-July. Plants will produce many offsets as the specimen shown on the left and have a typical red tinge at their leaves' base, which distinguishes this species from related Aeonium in the subgenus Canariensae. Original collection made several decades ago at Cuevas del Cinerón, 800m in the North of Gran Canaria.More Details »