#aeonium

Why Aeoniums? The Untapped Green Opportunity in Indore In a city like Indore, known for its scorching summers and the pervasive, water-retentive black cotton soil, the idea of cultivating a lush, profitable plant can seem challenging. Yet, within these very challenges lies an opportunity. Enter the Aeonium, a genus of succulents whose striking, rose-like rosettes are capturing the imagination of…

Aeonium - Susan Ashworth. , 2025.

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Aeonium castello-paivae

Aeonium is a genus in the Crassulaceae, or Stonecrop Family, with most of the species native to the Canary Islands. This one is A. castello-paivae, from the island of La Gomera. It makes clusters of thick-leaved blue-green heads that look echeveria-like, and its pale greenish-white flowers come in summer. While the flowers are not showy, the plant itself is delightful in a pot or in the garden (where winters are mild enough for its liking - it can take winter lows down to about 25 degrees F, or -4 Centigrade).

Aeonium nobile hybrid

Aeonium nobile is one of the few species in its genus that is single-headed and monocarpic (that is, it dies after flowering), and it is also notable for its thick leaves and its red flowers (a color not typically seen in Aeonium). In recent decades plants have been showing up in nurseries labeled as A. nobile, but with multiple heads and pink flowers, as seen here. Presumably, these are hybrids of A. nobile, but I don't know what the other parent is. In any case, their multiple heads make it possible to easily propagate them, and their leaves are thick like those of their parent.

Summertime photo of a medium-sized, drought-tolerant, full-sun Mediterranean front yard stone retaining wall landscape.

Aeonium simsii

Aeoniums are members of the Creassula Family, and most of them arenative to the Canary Islands, a Spanish possession to the west of Morocco. This one is Aeonium simsii, a relatively small species - even with the clusters of yellow flowers present, the clump is often less than a foot tall (30 cm). It is a mountaintop species, found at higher elevations on Gran Canaria.