Aeonium aureum is a species of flowering plant in the Stonecrop Family Crassulaceae, native to the Canary Islands (Tenerife, Gran Canaria, El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma).[1][2] It has very short stems, usually with several leaf rosettes. The grey-green leaves are tightly packed and fleshy. The bright yellow flowers are produced on leafy stems, and are up to 25 mm (1 in) across.[2] These flowers are extraordinary in being 32-merous (trigintoduomerous) i.e. having usually 32 sepals, 32 petals, 32 stamens and an ovary of 32 carpels each organ class in single concentric whorls.[3] It can have as few as 28 in a whorl to as many as 35, with 32 being the most common.[4]
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Leaf rosettes
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| Aeonium aureum | |
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| In habitat, Pico Birigoyo, La Palma | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Order: | Saxifragales |
| Family: | Crassulaceae |
| Genus: | Aeonium |
| Species: | A. aureum
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| Binomial name | |
| Aeonium aureum (C.Sm. ex Hornem.) T.H.M.Mes[1]
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References
edit- ^ a b c "Aeonium aureum (C.Sm. ex Hornem.) T.H.M.Mes", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2018-01-30
- ^ a b Bramwell, David & Bramwell, Zoë (2001), Wild Flowers of the Canary Islands (2nd ed.), Madrid: Editorial Rueda, p. 175, ISBN 84-7207-129-4 (as Greenovia aurea)
- ^ Berger, A. Crassulaceae NATURLICHEN PFLANZENFAMILIEN Band 18a page 379
- ^ Bramwell, David and Zoe (1974). Wildflowers of the Canary Islands. London: Stanley Thorns (pubs). p. 145.
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