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Names and Synonyms:Sempervivum urbicum
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Common Names:Saucer Plant, Saucer Aeonium, Dinner Plate Aeonium
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Family:Crassulaceae
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Origin:This plant is endemic to Tenerife,one of Spain’s Canary Islands where its distribution reaches from Anaga to Teno
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Size Label:1 gallon
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Height:4-6'
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Width:1-2'
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Cold Tolerance:25 to 30°F; -3.9 to -1.1°C
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Heat Tolerance:High heat tolerance
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Light Requirement:Prefers some shade in warmer inland climates, but it can take full sun along the coast.
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Water needs:Drought tolerant but looks best with regular watering in the warmer months. It can survive on winter rains in cool, winter weather.
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Maintenance:None
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Uses:This tall aeonium works well in rock and succulent gardens, among flowing grasses, or massed with other aeoniums and Canary Island native plants like Echiums. It is a good vertical accent plant when grown with shorter succulents. It prefers the mild climate typical of the Canary Islands so it should be given shade in hot inland locations.
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Propagation:This plant can be propagated from seed. Seed can be collected in large plastic bag after the inflorescence has matured. Can also be propogated from cuttings.
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Problems:Snails can damage leaves, requires well-draining soils to avoid rot in winter
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Special notes:This is a large aeonium which can reach 6 feet tall. It begins as an evergreen rosette and slowly develops a single, unbranched stem. It blooms with a striking pyramidal branched panicle of small white crassula-like flowers. This aeonium is monocarpic and usually dies after flowering.
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Aeonium urbicum ‘Fallbrook Ruby’
1 gallon $6.50
Temporarily out of stock due to frost damaage, February 2018
Aeonium ‘Fallbrook Ruby’ is related to the aeonium urbicum — a large clumping aeonium which with very large rosettes. It begins as an evergreen rosette and slowly develops a single, unbranched stem.
Out of stock
