Aeonium nobile
Aeonium nobile
Aeonium nobile is a species of the genus Aeonium in the family Crassulaceae ( Crassulaceae ).
- 3.1 Literature
- 3.2 Notes and references
Description
Vegetative characteristics
Aeonium nobile grows as a perennial, strong, mono carpe rosette plant. The bare, more or less smooth, fairly vigorous shoots have a diameter of 10 to 30 millimeters. Your wide becherigen up pretty flat rosettes reach a diameter of 25 to 80 centimeters. Your inner leaves are more or less upright. The obovate, often he is longitudinally folded, yellowish-green, almost leafless, often sticky young leaves 7-50 cm long, 4-30 cm wide and 0.6 to 1.8 inches thick. Towards the peak, they are sharp or pointed. The base is narrowed or sometimes wedge-shaped. The leaf margin is occasionally occupied the lower part with a few scattered lashes that are up to 0.5 mm long. The leaves are sometimes, especially along the edge, reddish or brownish variegat.
Generative features
Flachgipfelige to the dome-shaped wide inflorescence has a length of 20 to 40 centimeters and a width of 30 to 60 centimeters. The peduncle is 2-5 inches long. The seven-to neunzähligen flowers are at a 1 to 2 mm long, slightly downy hairy flower stalk. Their sepals are slightly pubescent. The whitish, intense variegaten, lanceolate, pointed petals are 3-5 mm long and 1 to 1.5 millimeters wide. The stamens are bald.
Systematics and distribution
Aeonium nobile is common on La Palma at altitudes of up to 750 meters.
The first description as Sempervivum nobile by Robert Lloyd Praeger was published in 1925. In 1928, he placed the species in the genus Aeonium.