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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Jupiter on May 24, 2015, 12:52:30 PM

Title: Crassulaceae question
Post by: Jupiter on May 24, 2015, 12:52:30 PM

Can anyone help me identify this Crassulaceae? Aeonium? Echeveria? I don't know much about this group and was given this by an old lady when I asked her what she had growing over her retaining wall. She didn't know what it was called.

Title: Re: Crassulaceae question
Post by: johnw on May 24, 2015, 01:43:14 PM

James  - It could be an Aeonium hybrid called 'Etna' (simsii x sedfolium) but that's only a hunch.  The tannic lines on the undersides say Aeonium to me.

john

Title: Re: Crassulaceae question
Post by: Jupiter on May 24, 2015, 02:12:12 PM

Thanks John, I did a bit of googling and I reckon Aeonium simsii is a good match. Very close. I guess I'll wait for flowers and have another go at an ID then.

Title: Re: Crassulaceae question
Post by: johnw on May 26, 2015, 04:04:53 AM

A. Simsii is said to have long hairs on the leaf margins.  ??? john

Title: Re: Crassulaceae question
Post by: Jupiter on May 26, 2015, 08:14:55 AM

Well it does have hairs on the margins... long as in...? I'll stop and get a better picture tomorrow when I go past on my way to work.