Black Rose
<img width="432" hspace="5" height="324" border="2" src="/blog/uploads/cactus/aeonium_schwartzkopf5.jpg" /><br /><br />Aeonium "Schwartzkopf"<br />Popular winter-growing succulent, gets very dark in summer and full sun. Shrubby branches to 3 or 4 ft. tall. Yellow pyramidal bloom stalks can sap the energy right out of the plant, killing it or setting it back for a couple years, so we like to cut them off before they get too big.<br /><br />Cultivated from Aeonium atropurpureum which has the same dark color, but only on the leaf margins.<br /><br />We’ve cultivated a variety we’re calling "Whippet" because it’s so fast growing. It’s shorter, and midway between A. atropurpureum and "Schwartzkopf" in color.<br /><br />
