Kiwi aeonium (Aeonium percarneum)

Description

Aeonium percarneum is a plant from the genus aeonium in the family of Crassulaceae (Crassulaceae). The epithet percarneum is derived from the Latin words per- for 'very' and carneus for, flesh-colored 'and refers to the reddish leaves of the species. Aeonium percarneum makes perennial and less branched shrubs that reach stature heights of up to 1 meter. The ascending shoots reach diameters of 7 to 20 millimeters. They are bald and reticulate. The rather flat rosettes have a diameter of 8 to 20 centimeters. The dark green, bluish, opalescent lanceolate leaves are pointed towards their apex and wedge-shaped at the base. Her balding leaf bladeis 4.5 to 10 inches long, 2 to 4 inches wide and 3 to 6 millimeters thick. The leaf margin is often slightly serrated, often with curved eyelashes of up to 1 millimeter in length and usually reddish variegat. The dome-shaped inflorescence is 10 to 30 inches high and 10 to 25 inches wide. The inflorescence stalk is 8 to 20 inches long. The eight to tenfold flowers are on weakly fluff hairy flower stems from 1 to 3 millimeters in length. Her sepals are faintly fluff-haired. The whitish, in the middle part pink variegaten, lanceolate, pointed petals are 7 to 8 millimeters long and 1.2 to 1.8 millimeters wide. The stamens are sparse fluffy hair. Aeonium (tree houseleek) is a genus of about 35 species of succulent, subtropical plants of the family Crassulaceae. Many species are popular in horticulture. The genus name comes from the ancient Greek "aionos" (ageless). While most of them are native to the Canary Islands, some are found in Madeira, Morocco, and in East Africa (for example in the Semien Mountains of Ethiopia). The succulent leaves are typically arranged on a basal stem, in a dense, spreading rosette. A feature which distinguishes this genus from many of its relatives is the manner in which the flowers bear free petals, and are divided into 6 or 12 sections. Each rosette produces a central inflorescence only once, and then dies back (though it will usually branch or offset to produce ensuing rosettes). Low-growing Aeonium species are A. tabuliforme and A. smithii; large species include A. arboreum, A. valverdense and A. holochrysum. They are related to the genera Sempervivum, Aichryson and Monanthes, as can be seen by their similar flower and inflorescences. Recently, the genus Greenovia has been placed within Aeonium.