Especies de Aeonium

Plants from the Crassulaceae family are common in the Canaries. Unique to Lanzarote is the rose house-leek (Aeonium lancerottense) the flowers of which dominate the garden for a month, normally from late June onwards. Small specimens grow in the lava of La Geria – a quite unearthly landscape when they bloom. In this garden they flourish – dozens of tiny pink and white star shaped flowers, each lovely on its own, grouped together into large conical spikes.

Also well represented in the garden is the closely related, yellow flowered, Aeonium balsimaferum, native to Fuerteventura as well but not something you are likely to see unless you visit this garden, as the leaves are a delicacy for the local goats, so it is almost extinct in the wild. An expert has told me that there is more of this species in this garden than the rest of the world combined!

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