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Sempervivum tabulaeforme Haw.
Suppl. Pl. Succ. 69. 1819 [May 1819]
Family: CRASSULACEAE

Accepted Scientific Name: Aeonium tabuliforme (Haw.) Webb & Berthel.
Hist. Nat. Iles Canaries (Phytogr.). i. 185. Webb & Berthel. as 'tabulaeforme'

Aeonium tabulaeforme (tabuliforme)
Aeonium tabulaeforme (tabuliforme)
A most unusual plant from the Canary Islands. Individual plants form a perfect flat disc which can grow to 45 in diameter. This plant is also commonly called saucer plant. Sometimes, the form will be crested in the center, making it look like a big green turtle!

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Accepted name in llifle Database:
Aeonium tabuliforme (Haw.) Webb & Berthel.
Hist. Nat. Iles Canaries (Phytogr.). i. 185.
Synonymy: 9 Accepted name in llifle Database:
Aeonium tabuliforme f. cristatum hort.

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Common Names include:
ENGLISH: Saucer plant, Dinner plate plant

Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Aeonium tabuliforme group

  • Aeonium tabulaeforme (tabuliforme)Aeonium tabuliforme (Haw.) Webb & Berthel.: Stemless, ground hugging, rosette. Usually single or offsetting which used to be flat as a pancake.
  • Aeonium tabulaefoeme forma cristataAeonium tabuliforme f. cristatum hort.: It slowly grows into an undulating mound of twisted fan shaped sections and seems to to change in and out of its crested mode during the years.

28983 RapCactus Raimondo Paladini
Aeonium tabuliforme at Buenavista del Northe. Canary. (Aeonium tabuliforme) Photo by: Raimondo Paladini
194 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Sempervivum tabulaeforme (Aeonium tabuliforme) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

193 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Sempervivum tabulaeforme (Aeonium tabuliforme) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
196 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Sempervivum tabulaeforme (Aeonium tabuliforme) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

195 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Sempervivum tabulaeforme (Aeonium tabuliforme) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
15435 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Sempervivum tabulaeforme (Aeonium tabuliforme) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli

15436 valentino Valentino Vallicelli
Sempervivum tabulaeforme (Aeonium tabuliforme) Photo by: Valentino Vallicelli
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