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Aeonium arboreum

Aeonium arboreum
Aeonium arboreum - Jardín Botánico Canario Viera y Clavijo - Gran Canaria - 01.jpg
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Core eudicots
Order: Saxifragales
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Aeonium
Species: A. arboreum
Binomial name
Aeonium arboreum
(L.) Webb & Berthel.
Synonyms
  • Aeonium doramae Webb ex A.Berger nom. inval.
  • Aeonium doremae Webb ex Christ
  • Aeonium holochrysum Webb & Berthel.
  • Aeonium manriqueorum Bolle
  • Aeonium rubrolineatum Svent.
  • Aeonium vestitum Svent.
  • Sempervivum arboreum L.
  • Sempervivum urbicum Lindl. nom. illeg.

Aeonium arboreum, the tree aeonium,tree houseleek, or Irish rose, is a succulent, subtropical subshrub in the flowering plant family Crassulaceae. It is native to the hillsides of the Canary Islands, where it is known as bejeque arboreo and introduced in the Mediterranean It bears rosettes of leaves and large pyramidal panicles of bright yellow flowers in the spring. In temperate regions it needs to be grown under glass. The purple cultivar 'Zwartkop' ('Schwartzkopf') has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. and a variegated form is grown as cultivar 'variegatum'.

The following variety names are accepted.



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