UH oh! You know what this means!!!

[BrianMc]

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[BrianMc]

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[BrianMc]

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[Jez]

..... someone snuck a pineapple plant into your greenhouse and you will be needing some ham to finish the pizza?

Seriously though I'll reveal ignorance here and ask what is this beautiful plant? I don't know! Lovely pictures too.

Cheers,

[Stuart Estell]

It means bye-bye - an Aeonium, I presume, Brian?

[BrianMc]

Hi Jez (tut tut tut, cheeky!) and Stuart.

This is my Greenovia Aurea ( Aeonium relative) and yes Stuart you are right! It is monocarpic and so the rosette will die after flowering. I am glad I entered it in the Glasgow Autumn Table show in October as it got first prize in the Crassula Group class.
It is growing in a 5" BEF pot and as of yet there is no sign of any offsets, so it is not looking promising. It will, however, momentarily give me a 5" square space on my bench!

Does anyone know if this is self sterile?

[Lindsey]

Do these grow from leaf cuttings, I wonder?

[Colin Walker]

BrianMc Wrote:
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> Hi Jez (tut tut tut, cheeky!) and Stuart.
>
> This is my Greenovia Aurea ( Aeonium relative) and
> yes Stuart you are right! It is monocarpic and so
> the rosette will die after flowering. I am glad I
> entered it in the Glasgow Autumn Table show in
> October as it got first prize in the Crassula
> Group class.

Hi Brian,

It also means that you need to get up to speed with your taxonomy.

The plant is not just an Aeonium relative, it IS an Aeonium: A. aureum. You're only 13 years out of date.

Do try removing a few complete leaves to see if you can get these to root. I've been successful on occasions, although I've never tried this trick with these ex Greenovias.

[Julie]

Those leaves don't look juicy enough to be leafcuttingable.

Let it's legacy be us drooling over pics of the flower spike when the time comes.

[Colin Walker]

Julie Wrote:
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> Those leaves don't look juicy enough to be
> leafcuttingable.
>
> Let it's legacy be us drooling over pics of the
> flower spike when the time comes.


Hi Julie,

Some relatively thin-leaved aeoniums will root and shoot from leaves, so long as you get a complete leaf with the lateral bud at its base. But as I said earlier, I've not actually tried this with the four spp. that were formerly greenovias.