Aeonium arboreum var. arboreum

Canary Islands aeonium

Family: Crassulaceae · Type: shrub · Not Native

Canary Islands aeonium is a naturalized shrub found in southern California coastal areas at elevations below 100 meters, often persisting in bluffs, dunes, or cultivated landscapes. Flowering from October to April, this succulent produces yellow to pale green flowers in dense, conic clusters approximately 2 centimeters wide. Growing as a subshrub up to one to two meters tall with stems 10 to 40 millimeters in diameter, it forms distinctive leaf rosettes 10 to 20 centimeters across. Its thick, oblong-oblanceolate leaves are 5 to 9 centimeters long and 1.5 to 3 millimeters thick, arranged in dense, architectural clusters. The plant produces distinctive flower clusters with narrow-oblong petals 5 to 7 millimeters long, creating an elegant architectural form typical of succulent gardens.

Habitat: Bluffs, dunes, or persisting from cultivation

Bloom period: Oct-Apr

Elevation: < 100 m

Bioregions: SCo

Data from The California Species Project — 14,000+ California species with verified data from CNPS, CDFW, USFWS, Jepson eFlora, Cal-IPC, and more.