Madeira aichryson
Aichryson divaricatum
Family · Crassulaceae · Harmless
The small hairy stonecrop relative coming out of wall cracks and shady rock in Madeira, with spoon-shaped leaves and yellow star flowers of many points.
Walls and rocks · Oak woods · Streams and ditches
Also known asspreading aichryson
How to tell it
A small branched plant with brittle fleshy stems, covered in short soft hairs. Spoon-shaped fleshy stalked leaves, grouped without forming a closed rosette, unlike the larger aeoniums. Yellow flowers with seven to ten narrow petals in a star. Range: endemic to Madeira.
What it is confused with
Madeira aeonium
Aeonium glutinosum
The large aeonium makes tight rosettes of stalkless leaves and is sticky; this is small, hairy and soft, with spoon leaves each on its own stalk. Neither is harmful.
What it is for
No use
It is told from the larger aeoniums by not forming a closed rosette and by its stalked leaves, and it is one of the plants filling levada walls without anyone noticing.
Where it occurs
Each square is an area with recorded observations of this plant. The lighter background is the set of areas where any of the entries has been observed, and serves as a reference. Note what this is not: it is not where the plant lives, it is where people record it, so trails and towns always look fuller than the mountains. Data from GBIF.
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