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Aeonium aureum

Aeonium aureum

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Aeonium aureum is a species of flowering plant in the Stonecrop Family (Crassulaceae), native to the Canary Islands. It has very short stems, usually with several leaf rosettes. The grey-green leaves are tightly packed and fleshy. The bright yellow flowers are produced on leafy stems, and are up to 25 mm (1 in) across. These flowers are extraordinary in being 32-merous (trigintoduomerous) i.e. having usually 32 sepals, 32 petals, 32 stamens and an ovary of 32 carpels each organ class in single concentric whorls. It can have as few as 28 in a whorl to as many as 35, with 32 being the most common.

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Ecology

How it lives

Propagated by
Seed
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Name
Aeonium aureum
Slug
aeonium-aureum
Kingdom
Plantae
Family
Crassulaceae
Genus
Aeonium
Species
aureum
Wikidata QID
Q310244
Propagule type
seed
Container suitable
No
Indoor suitable
No
OSSI pledged
No
Hazard level
1
Data completeness
43

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