Aeonium haworthii (Salm-Dyck) Webb & Berthel.

Small, bushy, much-branched shrub to c. 60 cm high, often forming a dense spreading clump; stems to c. 1.5 cm diam.; lf scars indistinct. Rosettes terminal, mostly 5–11–(14) cm diam., rather flattened. Outer rosette lvs to c. 7–(9) × 3–(3.5) cm, (3)–5–7 mm thick, obovate to broadly obovate- spathulate, usually glaucous, occasionally ± glaucescent (especially if shaded), glabrous on both surfaces, ± concave above and slightly keeled and convex on lower surface; margins ciliolate, red at least towards the mucronate apex. Flowering shoots terminal but vegetative growth often continued from lateral branches beneath; axis moderately stout, spreading, red, glabrous, with leaflike bracts numerous and somewhat decreasing towards infl. Infl. a broadly pyramidal panicle, rounded at the top, usually 10–24 cm long and nearly as wide; fls ± densely secund along branches. Calyx lobes 3–6 mm long, glabrous, narrowly triangular, triangular or triangular-ovate. Petals (6)–8–10, 8–12 × 2–4 mm, linear-elliptic, lanceolate-elliptic, or ± elliptic, whitish or cream, often with a pink flush and a green keel outside, sometimes pale yellow. Stamens white or pink, the inner whorl 5.5–9.5 mm long, the outer whorl usually slightly shorter or sometimes slightly longer. Carpels white or pinkish. Scales 0.5–1 mm long, square or ± rectangular, often emarginate. Seeds 0.6–0.7 mm long, obovoid-oblong, minutely longitudinally streaked.

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

Flowering: Oct.–Dec.–(Feb.)