Aeonium Short Black
Aeonium 'Short Black'
Aeonium, or Tree House Leek, is a succulent plant with rosettes of fleshy green leaves. Panicles or racemes of small starry flowers are produced in Spring. 'Short Black' has dark red rosettes of leaves. According to Rudolf Schulz, Aeonium in habitat and cultivation, 2007, this is "a mutation of A. 'Zwartkop' which branches profusely and forms compact mounds", only up to 30 cm tall.(ICN)
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Full sun
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Very little water
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Not Frost hardy
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Free draining
Common name
Aeonium 'Short Black'
Latin name
Aeonium Short Black
type
Succulent
family
Crassulaceae
ph
5.0 - 8.0 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun
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Frost
Not Frost hardy
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Soil
Free draining
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Water
Very little water
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When the plant will bloom
full grown dimensions
0.30 M
0.10 M
Aeonium Short Black
Aeonium, or Tree House Leek, is a succulent plant with rosettes of fleshy green leaves. Panicles or racemes of small starry flowers are produced in Spring. 'Short Black' has dark red rosettes of leaves. According to Rudolf Schulz, Aeonium in habitat and cultivation, 2007, this is "a mutation of A. 'Zwartkop' which branches profusely and forms compact mounds", only up to 30 cm tall.(ICN)
Flowering
From Mid Spring TO Mid Summer
Panicles or racemes of small, starry flowers are produced in Spring
Planting
From Mid Spring TO Early Summer
Plant out after the risk of frost
Propagating
From Early Spring TO Mid Autumn
Vey easy to propagate. Break of a rosette of leaves, complete with stalk, and dip in rooting compound, and plant in moist peat-based compost.
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