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