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Aeonium “Kiwi Verde”

A. haworthii hybrid

Family: Crassulaceae

Small shrubby Aeonium up to 2ft. Green leaves with a bit of red on the edges.

This is a cultivar of unknown origin.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Kiwi”

A. haworthii hybrid

Family: Crassulaceae

Small shrubby Aeonium up to 2ft, with variable green, pink, and yellow leaves.

This is a cultivar of unknown origin.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Luteovariegatum”

Family: Crassulaceae

Large colorful variegated hybrid with green and yellow leaves that blush pink at the edges. Stems to 16″.

This is a cultivar created by B.K.Boom in 1959

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Mardi Gras”

Family: Crassulaceae

Colorful hybrid with large yellow a green striped leaves with red-edges. Will show more color with more sun and with winter cool temps. Best with afternoon shade inland.

This is a patented cultivar created by Altman Plants (USPP21,407), and was initially released in the Huntington Garden’s 2014 International Succulent Introductions catalog (ISI2014)

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Pedro”

Family: Crassulaceae

Rosettes to 18″ with pink edges in sun with white stripe down the middle.

This cultivar is a Cactus Jungle original: a reverse variegation sport off A. decorum “Sunburst”

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Pinwheel”

A. atropurpureum “Pinwheel” (Not A. haworthii, Pinwheel Aeonium)

Family: Crassulaceae

Medium Aeonium erect to 2ft with many branches. Dark purple in full sun/more green in shade.

Origin:
This appears to be a named selection of Aeonium arboreum, which is found on Gran Carnaria in the Canary Islands.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Salad Bowl”

A. urbicum “Salad Bowl”

Family: Crassulaceae

Low growing with large green 12″ rosettes and red tips in full sun. Shade-tolerant.

Origin:
This appears to be a named selection of Aeonium urbicum, which is found on Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Schwartzkopf”

A. arboreum v. atropurpureum “Schwartzkopf”

Family: Crassulaceae

Medium to large Aeonium from 3 to 5ft tall, with many branches and very dark purple rosettes in full sun.

Origin:
This is a named selection of Aeonium arboreum, which is found on Gran Carnaria in the Canary Islands.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Side Salad”

A. urbicum “Side Salad”

Family: Crassulaceae

Mounding to 2ft tall. Forms a nice green carpet in mass-plantings.

This appears to be a named selection of Aeonium urbicum, of undetermined origin

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Starburst”

Family: Crassulaceae

Small variegated rosettes that will form large mounds overtime. Variegation varies.

This is a partial reversion of A. “Sunburst” which is either a variegated form of A. davidbramwellii or A. decorum

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Sunburst”

Family: Crassulaceae

Large colorful hybrid with red-edged rosettes to 2ft.

Origin:
This plant was originally introduced in the Huntington Garden’s 1993 International Succulent Introductions (ISI 93) catalog as Aeonium decorum “Sunburst” but is now thought to be a variegated form of A. davidbramwellii

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Suncup”

A. castello-paivae fa. variegata

Family: Crassulaceae

Small shrubby Aeonium with narrow green leaves aud yellowish white variegation

This is a variegated cultivar of A. castello-paivae

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Sunshine”

Family: Crassulaceae

Very green undulating leaves, large rosettes with tight centers. Few branches, grows 4-5ft tall. Soft leaves, almost fuzzy.

This is a hybrid cultivar of A. subplanum x A. “Cyclops”

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Tip Top”

A. arboreum “Tip Top”

Family: Crassulaceae

Small and shrubby Aeonium to 1ft tall x 3ft wide, with Dark rosettes.

This is a cultivar of A. arboreum with undetermined origins

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium “Velour”

A. canariense x A. arboreum

Family: Crassulaceae

Medium Aeonium up to 3ft with Green and rich-reddish-brown rosettes

Origin:
This is a cultivar hybrid of A. canariense and A. “Schwarzkopf” originally produced by Jack Catlin in 1976, and distributed in the Huntington Garden’s 2000 issue of the International Succulent Introductions catalog (ISI-2000)

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems

Aeonium “Voodoo”

Family: Crassulaceae

Large Aeonium up to 5 feet tall, with extraordinary undulating deep burgundy colored leaves.

Origin:
This is a hybrid of A. undulatum and A. “Zwartkop” that was originally created by Jack Catlin, and distributed in the Huntington Garden’s 2001 issue of the International Succulent Introductions catalog (ISI-2001).

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems

Aeonium “Whippet”

Family: Crassulaceae

Shrub to 2ft with many fast-growing rosettes

This cultivar is a Cactus Jungle original: a greener sport off A. “Schwarzkopf”

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium arboreum

Family: Crassulaceae

This is a medium sized Aeonium growing to approximately 3 feet with many branches. Leaves are green with purple margins which become more intensely colored in direct sun.

Habitat:
Found throughout the Canary Islands and the west coast of Morocco, where it grows on rocky cliffs and sand dunes.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium arboreum v. atropurpureum

Family: Crassulaceae

This is a medium sized Aeonium growing to approximately 3 feet with many branches. Leaves are deeply purple under intense light, can become slightly more green in shaded conditions.

This is an old cultivar of unknown origin that has been circulating in the trade for many years

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium balsamiferum

Family: Crassulaceae

This is a medium sized Aeonium growing to approximately 3 feet with many branches. Leaves are green and form a tight slightly flattened rosette during summer months which opens more in the winter

Habitat:
Found in Northern Lanzarote, Canary Islands, growing on rocky cliffs.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium canariense

Family: Crassulaceae

Medium Aeonium up to 3ft that has very thick succulent soft green leaves, with pink edges in full sun

Habitat:
Originating in the Canary Islands where it grows on rocky cliffs

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium canariense v. virgineum

Family: Crassulaceae

Medium Aeonium with thick succulent glandular green leaves, and pink edges in full sun

Habitat:
Originating in North Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, where it grows on rocky cliffs

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium ciliatum

Family: Crassulaceae

Fast growing, moderately branchy, to 6ft tall and nearly as wide. Sports massive rosettes of spoon-shaped leaves, up to 20″ wide! This species will continue to flourish after flowering. Prefers afternoon shade.

Habitat:
Northern Tenerife, Canary Islands

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems

Aeonium davidbramwellii

Family: Crassulaceae

This is a medium sized Aeonium growing to approximately 3 feet with Large green rosettes, and some branching. Leaf margins have light pink edges.

Habitat:
La Palma, Canary Islands

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems

Aeonium decorum

Family: Crassulaceae

Small Aeonium that grows into a bushy shrub to 16″ with thick long red-edged leaves in sun.

Habitat:
La Gomera and Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium decorum “Cooperi”

Family: Crassulaceae

Small Aeonium that grows into a bushy shrub to 16″ with thick long bright red-edged leaves in sun.

This is a cultivar of undetermined origin.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium decorum “Tricolor”

Family: Crassulaceae

Small colorful Aeonium cultivar that grows into a bushy shrub to 10″ with thick red yellow and green leaves in sun.

This is a cultivar of undetermined origin.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium gomerense

Family: Crassulaceae

Medium to large Aeonium that grows into a bushy shrub between 2 to 4ft. Leaves have pink edges in sun and are thick and long.

Habitat:
La Gomera in the Canary Islands.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium haworthii

Family: Crassulaceae

Bushy subshrub up to 10″ with profusion of 4″red-tipped, green rosettes in full sun; thick long leaves.

Habitat:
Northern Tenerife in the Canary Islands.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.

Aeonium holochrysum

A. arboreum var. holochrysum

Family: Crassulaceae

Medium Aeonium up to 3 feet, with tight glossy green rosettes – small in summer

Habitat:
found in Tenerife, La Gomera, La Palma, and El Hierro in the Canary Islands.

Cultivation:
Does well outdoors in the bay area as a potted plant or landscape specimen. Plant in well draining media. This plant is from a winter rainfall region, but can receive water throughout the year in cultivation. Should be watered about once every 2 weeks, always allowing time for the soil to dry out between waterings. This plant does not like extreme heat and can fry if the temperatures rise above 100°F for long periods. Aeoniums are monocarpic so branches die back after flowering, but plants will generally re-branch from lower stems.