Aeonium haworthii Hybrids

Perennial or monocarpic; stems trunk-like, 20- c. 80 cm high, c. 1–2 cm diam., not branched or with few branches, with numerous narrow lf scars. Rosettes terminal, usually 10–18 cm diam., flattened except in summer. Outer rosette lvs to 9–(12) × 3.5 cm, 2–4–(5) mm thick, green, obovate or obovate- spathulate, glabrous on both surfaces, slightly concave on upper, flat on lower; margins ciliate, mostly green, sometimes slightly red towards the mucronate apex. Flowering shoots terminal, either the whole plant or the stem bearing the infl. dying after flowering; axis ± stout, usually tall and erect, glabrous, occasionally glabrate, with leaflike bracts usually present at peak flowering. Infl. a broadly pyramidal panicle, obtuse or rounded to flat at top, on main stem usually 12–20 cm long and almost as wide; fls fairly densely arranged, somewhat secund on branches. Calyx lobes 2.5–4 mm long, glabrous, triangular or triangular-lanceolate. Petals (8)–9–10, 8–11 × c. 2–3 mm, linear, linear-elliptic or linear-lanceolate, greenish white, cream, greenish yellow or pale yellow. Stamens of inner whorl 5.5–9 mm long, the outer whorl usually slightly shorter; stamens and carpels whitish, cream, pale green, greenish yellow, or pale yellow. Scales 0.6–1.5 mm long, almost rectangular or rectangular-cuneate, ± truncate or retuse. Seeds 0.6–0.9 mm long, narrowly obovoid-oblong, minutely longitudinally streaked.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]

Flowering: Sep.–Oct.