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Aeonium arboreum

I got this little guy from my friend Sue a while back. It has thin, slightly fleshy leaves that grow in a radial from the centre of the plant and has golden-yellow flowers in the spring (I’m still waiting to see the flowers). This plant currently has one stem but they normally grow more branches.

Surprisingly, another succulent I thought was South African is not. This one originates in the Canary Islands!

Aeonium arboreum.

3 Comments to “Aeonium arboreum”

Sonya 19 February 2009 at 10:43 am #

Good to know Smile. We’ve got one of these from Rog’s mum and someone told me it wasn’t indigenous. I wonder how many of these have ‘crept’ in – where we think they’re indigenous, but they’re ‘imposters’. ha
Niall McNulty 19 February 2009 at 10:45 am #

and doesn’t it just look South African?
elephant's eye 2 October 2009 at 11:17 pm #

I also have the deep red one on the newer post. Yes, it does look like one of ours!