Can anyone identify this plant seen in Southern California and advise whether is can be grown in Florida?
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Tom B
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If it can, where would be a likely place from which to get this plant?
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Tom, I am 99 percent sure that is a euphorbia, possibly "Red Martin." It is said to be hardy from zones 6 to 9. You will probably have to do some mail-order browsing to find it. Plant Delights carries a number of euphorbias including "Red Rudolph," which seems to have less uniform red coloration than yours. Here is where I found "Red Martin," but they do not do mail order: http://nativeson.com/annotated_catalog/ecatalog.htm
Douglas Hunt
on Jan 06, 2012
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@ Douglas and Tom, yes it looks like a Euphorbia but I am fairly certain it is a Aeonium arboreum, check out this link to a write up in Fine Gardening magazine. Hardy to Zone 9, definitely worth a try in Florida http://www.finegardening.com/plantguide/aeonium-arboreum-zwartkop-black-rose.aspx
Erica Glasener
on Jan 06, 2012
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I think you are on the money, Erica. But if so, Tom, I think hardiness in Lady Lake would be dicey. You would definitely have to be prepared to give it some protection on nights like we've just had.
Douglas Hunt
on Jan 06, 2012
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Thank you both. :-)
Tom B
on Jan 06, 2012
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I have one that I keep in my greenhouse. I just love the way they look. I just had to treat it for mealybugs. I bought mine from a vender @ my local farmers market.
Deborah C
on Jan 08, 2012
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Botanical Name: Aeonium arboreum 'Zwartkop' Very easy to grow in California, and take a frost . The Aeonium family is huge with so many different colors .
Doerr Landscape Design
on Jan 13, 2012
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thanks for confirming what I told Tom earlier this month. They are beautiful.
Erica Glasener
on Jan 15, 2012
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Erica is right - they are Aeonium arboreum. The rust colored one is 'Atropurpureum'. They are available in a kind of lime-green color, as well as the one in your photograph. If you can get a piece (with a stem) they root very easily so you should be able to propagate your own. Perhaps you could get one from Drought Smart Plants?
Valerie
on Jun 04, 2014
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Aenoium " Schwarzkopf" I have had these in my garden in the past and have two cuttings growing now. They go very black/chocolate colour in full sun and lime green in the centre. If they are in the shade, the colour is not so black. They are a type of succulent and easily propagated from a cutting/rosette or piece of the stem. They do send out roots from along the stems at various points into the ground and spread in that manner - self propagating. They do well in pots in a cacti/succulent mix and also in well drained soils.
Carole
on Jul 01, 2014
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BTW, Schwarzkopf (or Zwartkopf as someone else here has used that spelling) is I think German for black head as the rosettes are almost black. Schwarz meaning black and kopf meaning head if I remember my high school German correctly.
Carole
on Jul 01, 2014
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black rose. we have them in our green house
KT
on Jul 08, 2014
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They grow in Florida and do better in the cooler months. I keep them in pots. They can get too wet etc. and then have a rapid demise.
Kathy Echevarria
on Jul 29, 2014
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I started with one small start now I have many, I just break off a branch and stick it in the soil here in California , they do better in shade.
Jessie
on Aug 17, 2014
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When you see succulents that you like, be a good gardener and touch it to admire, make sure no one is looking and steal or appropriate some of the leaves, stick in wet sand when you get home. It will root and then you replant. Always stop to admire succulents you like!
Rosanne Cannon-Schiedel
on Aug 17, 2014
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It's related to hens and chicks.
Kim keller
on Aug 26, 2014
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Aeonium arboreum 'Zwartkop'. Follow these link http://www.finegardening.com/black-rose-aeonium-arboreum%C2%A0-zwartkop and http://florafinder.com/Species/Aeonium_arboreum_Zwartkop.php
Brenda Webster
on Jan 19, 2015
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Don't pick the leaves off the succulents, but if you see some that have fallen off, I say "free game"!
Dayna Gibson
on Mar 11, 2015
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succulant plant,come from a hotsandy humid state
Dj31771879
on Jun 03, 2015
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We just bought one at Whole Foods in Cambridge, MA, this past wknd. Easy care succulent.
Judithcausey
on Sep 02, 2015
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Likes partial shade in California ,I just break off a stem and plant it and they grow . I got my first plant as a small stem sample about 5 yrs ago and have shared dozens from that sample. They do not like frost.
Jessie
on Sep 03, 2015
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Yes. I have owned that plant but conditions in Florida make some succulents hard to grow. That was one I didn't succeed with.
Kathy Echevarria
on Sep 03, 2015
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You're welcome, Jessie! It's a lovely plant!
Brenda Webster
on Sep 03, 2015
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Its an Echeveria, a succulent..
Hana Smith
on Oct 09, 2015
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USC Riverside Botanical garden program can help with any type of plant you want to learn about....
Eva Kiefer-Ferrara
on Jan 13, 2016
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Thank you.
Tom B
on Jan 13, 2016
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