Aeonium Arboreum Purpuratrum: Native from the Mediterranean regions. Belongs to the crassulaceae family. Stems are erect with dense rosettes, the leaves are dark purple, and their flowers are yellow. After the blossoms fade, the branch that carries the blossoms dies.
Aeonium Schwarzkopf: It's originally from Gran Canaria. Belongs to the crassulaceae family. It is a bushy succulent that has a beautiful dark purple leaf and produces yellow flowers in the summer.
Aeonium Plant Care: Very easy, the plant likes to be in a light location in the summer in half shade and plenty of water, in winter they require bright and cool situation. If potted put the plant in a pot that is too large, rather than too small.
AGAVES
Agave Desmetiana Variegata: The rosettes of the agave plants take 7 to 20 years in habitat to flower, the time before flowering is used by the plant to store nutrients and mineral reserves which are then utilized in the formation of the flower stem, which can grow up to 10 meters high. After flowering the mother plant produces offsets and then dies. The leaves are green with yellow on the edge. The shape of the rosette is a defense mechanism, the leaves are usually hard or fairly rigid and fibrous inside and number between 20 and 200 depending on species.
Agave Filifera: Belongs to the agavaceae family. Rosettes to 65 cm in diameter with lateral shoots, shiny green leaves with white lines and filiferous margins; inflorescence to 3 mts tall, greenish yellow flowers.
Agave Queen Victoria: The rosettes of the agave plants take 7 to 20 years in habitat to flower, the time before flowering is used by the plant to store nutrients and mineral reserves which are then utilized in the formation of the flower stem, which can grow up to 4 meters high, flowers are usually red. After flowering the mother plant produces offsets and then dies. Tle leaves are green with white margins and a terminal spine 2 mm long.
Aeonium Arboreum Purpuratrum
