Aeonium aureum

Aeonium aureum (synonym Greenovia aurea) is a species of flowering plant in the Stonecrop Family (Crassulaceae), native to the Canary Islands (Tenerife, Gran Canaria, El Hierro, La Gomera and La Palma).^[1][2] It has very short stems, usually with several leaf rosettes. The grey-green leaves are tightly packed and fleshy. The bright yellow flowers are produced on leafy stems, and are up to 25 mm (1 in) across.^[2] These flowers are extraordinary in being 32-merous (trigintoduomerous) i.e. having usually 32 sepals, 32 petals, 32 stamens and an ovary of 32 carpels each organ class in single concentric whorls.^[3] It can have as few as 28 in a whorl to as many as 35, with 32 being the most common.^[4]

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  Leaf rosettes

Aeonium aureum
In habitat, Pico Birigoyo, La Palma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Order:	Saxifragales
Family:	Crassulaceae
Genus:	Aeonium
Species:	A. aureum
Binomial name
Aeonium aureum (C.Sm. ex Hornem.) T.H.M.Mes[1]
Synonyms[1]
Greenovia aurea (C.Sm. ex Hornem.) Webb & Berthel. Sempervivum aureum C.Sm. ex Hornem.