Aeonium

x occidentale   Bañares, 2007

Aeonium goochiae  Webb & Berthel. × Aeonium sedifolium  (Webb ex Bolle) Pit. & Proust.

 

Aeonium goochiae  Webb & Berthel. × Aeonium sedifolium  (Webb ex Bolle) Pit. & Proust., in A. Santos-Guerra, Vegetacion y flora de La Palma: 177, 179. 1983.

 

Aeonium ×occidentale Bañares, Vieraea 18: 68. 1990 ("×occidentalis") nom. inval. (Art. 39.1).

 

Aeonium ×occidentale Bañares, Vieraea 35: 68. 2007.

 

Etym: A Latin adjective, occidentalis, western.

 

T: Islas Canarias, La Palma, El Time; Mar 1980, Ángel  Bañares

 

HT: TFC 19.936.

Description :

Resembling Aeonium sedifolium but more robust.

Rosettes to 4 cm across

Branches 3 - 5 mm thick.

Leaves oblanceolate, 2 - 3 x 1 cm, 4 - 5 mm thick, densely glandular pubescent, glutinous, with reddish spots.

Inflorescence lax, glandular pubescent, subcorymbose.

Flowers 45, 7 - 8-merous, calyx glandular pubescent, petals yellowish white.

The hybrid was first reported as a garden hybrid by Santos.

 

Sketch from A. Santos Guerra, Vegetacion y Flora de La Palma, 1983, p. 179.

Photo from A. Santos Guerra, Vegetacion y Flora de La Palma, 1983, p. 180.

Photos Eduardo Carbonell

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