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Madre
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Hi Bard or anyone that can help,
I have been to a couple of garden centres but cannot find this plant. Its a succulent with purple rosettes. It suppose to grow in the canary islands but i cant find it. Even went up to the hills but can only see some green type ones. |
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Thu Feb 04, 2010 5:24 pm
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bardofely
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| Madre wrote: | Hi Bard or anyone that can help,
I have been to a couple of garden centres but cannot find this plant. Its a succulent with purple rosettes. It suppose to grow in the canary islands but i cant find it. Even went up to the hills but can only see some green type ones. |
It is not in the long list of Aeoniums in my new Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands by David Bramwell so it presumably doesn't grow here. I don't know it as a plant that can be found on Tenerife. It is not in any of my plant books either.
There are loads of other Aeonium species though that are really easy to find. The golden-flowered type (A. holochrysum) is in full bloom now. And A. urbicum can be seen in vast quantities all over the roadside land around Santiago del Teide and down to Tamaimo and beyond.
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Madre
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Hi Bard,
Thankyou for your information. I had 1 of these plants in England it grew really well although i had to cover it when it got frosty. Then moved to Tenerife gave it to my mum and she killed it!
Read that it came from the Canary islands so thought it would be easy to get. I suppose it could mean 1 of the Canary Islands not all of them. Never mind I will keep looking maybe I will get it from I of the other islands when we visit them.
Bye for now and thanks again |
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Fri Feb 05, 2010 4:47 pm
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It is possible that a plant collector here has a specimen and even that someone who just likes plants has it growing but as far as I can tell it is not endemic here. There are lots of websites about it if you Google it. And yes, some say Canary Islands, but they may just be saying that because a lot of Aeoniums grow here. In fact some only grow in very restricted localities such as Masca. Whatever the truth is I don't think it is native to Tenerife.
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Fri Feb 05, 2010 5:03 pm
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Madre
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Hi Bard,
I think your right, not native to Tenerife me thinks as well.  |
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Fri Feb 05, 2010 9:57 pm
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