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Aeonium arboreum
Also called Tree Aeonium, Tree Aenium
Aeonium arboreum is a succulent subshrub with rosettes of glossy leaves on upright stems, often purple-tinged, that can grow up to 2 metres tall. Give it sun or light shade in gritty, fast-draining soil and let it dry out between waterings.
Aeonium arboreum, the tree aeonium, tree houseleek, or Irish rose, is a succulent, subtropical subshrub in the flowering plant family Crassulaceae.
Aeonium arboreum grows in sunny or slightly shaded places on weathered volcanic soil. The purple cultivar 'Zwartkop' ('Schwartzkopf') has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. A variegated form is grown as cultivar 'variegatum'.
The plant is endemic to the western Canary Islands of Tenerife, La Palma, El Hierro, La Gomera and Gran Canaria. The populations found on the Iberian Peninsula, the Moroccan coast and the Mediterranean are likely to be considered neophytes. In colder temperate regions it needs to be grown under glass; however, in temperate regions with mild winters they are perennial.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
