Aeonium sedifolium flowers

    Aeonium sedifolium flowers
    Author: Ivan Lätti
    Photographer: Francelle van Zyl

    The yellow, star-shaped flowers of Aeonium sedifolium are bisexual, growing in clusters on longish stalks. Each leaf rosette produces only one loose inflorescence of six to fifteen flowers from its centre and then dies back, although branching may happen, the new branches again capable of flowering.

    From nine to eleven oblong, acutely pointed, free petals spread in a flower and curve down around the flower centre. Petal dimensions are up to 7 mm long by 2,5 mm wide. Numerous yellow stamens end in globular anthers. They are angled out over the petals, about as wide as them. The yellow filaments angling out over the petals are sparsely hairy. About as many carpels as the petals form a ring around the flower centre, their bulging ovaries ending in short, erect, thread-like styles. There are no nectary glands in these flowers.

    Flowering happens in spring and early summer when the plants tend to be profusely covered in flowers (Leistner, (Ed.), 2000; iNaturalist; Wikipedia; https://www.llifle.com; https://worldofsucculents.com).

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