Aeonium aureum

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|image_caption = In habitat, Pico Birigoyo, La Palma

|genus = Aeonium

|species = aureum

|authority = (C.Sm. ex Hornem.) T.H.M.Mes

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|Greenovia aurea|(C.Sm. ex Hornem.) Webb & Berthel.

|Sempervivum aureum|C.Sm. ex Hornem.

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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). 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 {{cvt|25|mm|in|0}} across. 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.Berger, A. Crassulaceae NATURLICHEN PFLANZENFAMILIEN Band 18a page 379 It can have as few as 28 in a whorl to as many as 35, with 32 being the most common.{{cite book | last= Bramwell | first= David and Zoe | date= 1974 | title= Wildflowers of the Canary Islands | location= London | publisher= Stanley Thorns (pubs) | page= 145}}

File:Aeonium aureum (≡ Greenovia. aurea) (Marianne Perdomo) 1.jpg|Leaf rosettes