Learn the names of best Aeonium Types and Varieties that offer so much color and contrast to grow indoors and outdoors.
Known for their unique appearance and color, Aeoniums with their handsome rosettes on stems can be excellent additions to your succulent collection. The best part is, they are available in many hybrid cultivars, and listing them all is difficult–But we tried our best and picked some Aeonium Types for you!
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Best Aeonium Varieties
1. Mountain Rose
Botanical Name: Aeonium dodrantale
Height/Spread: 2-4 inches
Simply one of the best aeonium types, Mountain Rose forms little rosettes that look exactly like roses, albeit in jade green color. The outer leaves take a hue of red as they age.
2. Bronze Medal Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Bronze Medal’
Height/Spread: 12-36/10-18 inches
The plant forms a small rose-like shape made up of green leaves with a strong hue of bronze on the edges and fine red markings.
3. Dwarf Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium sedifolium
Height/Spread: 4-6 inches
This compact specimen has vegetative branches growing a dense mass of thick and plumpy lime-green, orange leaves with deep red marking on the edges.
4. Stalked Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium undulatum
Height/Spread: 12-36/8-12 inches
The plant forms a large rosette on a thick and long stem. It also produces clusters of small yellow flowers in summers.
5. Black Tree Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium arboreum ‘Atropurpureum’
Height/Spread: 12-26/8-14 inches
It looks magnificent with glossy dark purple-red leaves that almost look black when kept in full sunlight. Keep it in shade and it’ll turn to a shade of light green.
6. Emerald Ice
Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Emerald Ice’
Height/Spread: 12-14/8-12 inches
‘Emerald Ice’ is distinguished by a gorgeous rosette made up of numerous green leaves, arranged in an attractive variegated geometric pattern with creamy-white edges.
7. Silk Pinwheel
Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Silk Pinwheel’
Height/Spread: 12-36/8-16 inches
‘Silk Pinwheel’ has a deep wine-purple rosette with leaves arranged in a tight spiral. They have a fine texture like silk, hence the name. It is one of the best aeonium types!
8. Sunburst Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium arboreum ‘Luteovariegatum’
Height/Spread: 4-8 inches
Produces narrow to wide green leaves with light yellow edges. The corners of the foliage also take a light hue of pink as the plant matures.
9. Black Rose Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium arboreum ‘Zwartkop’
Height/Spread: 12-36/10-18 inches
The long gray-brown stems hold large rosettes made of glossy purple leaves so dark, they make the plant look black from a distance. It also produces star-shaped yellow flowers.
10. Irish Rose
Botanical Name: Aeonium arboreum
Height/Spread: 5-8 inches
This ‘Aeonium’ species offers glossy green spatular leaves, often overlapped with coppery tones. Keep it in direct sun and it’ll take a more dark color.
11. Giant Red Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Cyclops’
Height/Spread: 24-48/6-10 inches
The emerging foliage of the plant is green, which turns to dark red-bronze color as it matures. The plant grows fast and produces star-like yellow flowers in clusters.
12. Red Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Jack Catlin’
Height/Spread: 12-24/6-10 inches
This succulent has beautiful clumps of rosettes with green leaves in the middle and red around the tips. The color turns more intense as the plant matures.
13. Saucer Plant
Botanical Name: Aeonium tabuliforme
Height/Spread: 2-6/6-10 inches
This aeonium variety displays flat, large plate-sized rosettes with rounded, soft-green leaves overlapping in a swirled-effect. Unlike other species, keep it safe from direct sun.
14. Smith’s Giant Houseleek
Botanical Name: Aeonium smithii
Height/Spread: 12-24/6-16 inches
This one is a small succulent that grows up to 2 feet tall. The spoon-shaped leaves are glossy and velvety with a purple or brownish tinge. It also produces yellow flowers.
15. Blushing Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Blushing Beauty’
Height/Spread: 6-12/4-8 inches
This award-winning variety forms a rosette of glossy, light green spoon-shaped leaves that are red around the edges. It also grows small star-shaped flowers during spring.
16. Aeonium Decorum
Botanical Name: Aeonium decorum
Height/Spread: 12-36/6-8 inches
This multi-branching variety shows off red-edged leaves with pink flowers. The popular cultivar ‘Sunburst’ produces variegated leaves with green, creamy yellow, and pink hues.
17. Canary Island Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium canariense
Height/Spread: 6-10/4-8 inches
It forms short-stemmed rosettes of green leaves. The rosette can grow up to 18-20 inches in diameter before forming huge pyramids of yellow flowers!
18. Kiwi Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium haworthii ‘Kiwi’
Height/Spread: 12-36/8-14 inches
This compact cultivar has small variegated rosettes of spoon-shaped fleshy leaves, yellow-green in color with red edges, and produces clusters of small, star-shaped flowers.
19. Mardi Gras
Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Mardi Gras’
Height/Spread: 4-6/3-7 inches
Aeonium ‘Mardi Gras’ features rosettes of yellow and green variegation, that turns to rich burgundy hues when planted in bright light. It is one of the best Best Aeonium Types!
20. Velour
Botanical Name: Aeonium arboreum ‘Velour’
Height/Spread: 4-8/3-4 inches
This evergreen upright perennial succulent has branching stems embellished with ornamental rosettes of fleshy, glossy, and dark purple to chocolate-colored leaves.
21. Moonburst
Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Moonburst’
Height/Spread: 4-6/4-8 inches
‘Moonburst’ is an attractive succulent with rosettes of green leaves patterned in cream to yellow streaks with pink margins. It has shorter leaves and more distinct variegation.
22. Firerose Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium garnet ‘firerose’
Height/Spread: 4-8/4-6 inches
This charming aeonium exhibits deep bronze-burgundy rosettes with a green-yellow center. During spring, old rosettes form conical and erect yellow blooms.
23. Starburst
Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Starburst’
Height/Spread: 12-24/8-16 inches
‘Starburst’ showcases variegated rosettes having pink shade on margins and light yellow streaks on the fleshy green leaves. An attractive pick for rock gardens.
24. Suncups
Botanical Name: Aeonium castello-paivae ‘Variegata’
Height/Spread: 10-16/6-10 inches
This variegated cultivar produces a small rosette with multiple offsets and compact clumps. The leaves get green and yellow variegation with pink edges if grown in full sunlight.
25. Aeonium Viscatum
Botanical Name: Aeonium lindleyi subsp. viscatum
Height/Spread: 16-20/8-14 inches
This stunning perennial succulent has green leaves covered with short velvety hair. It looks a bit messy when young but attains a compact form at maturity.
26. Plum Petals Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Plum Petals’
Height/Spread: 12-36/8-16 inches
‘Plum Petals’ is a succulent shrub with striking rosettes of spatula-shaped plum-colored leaves. Bright yellow flowers rise above the foliage during spring.
27. Aeonium Albovariegatum
Botanical Name: Aeonium arboreum ‘Albovariegatum’
Height/Spread: 12-28/8-16 inches
A small and attractive specimen, it forms a variegated rosette edged in a rich shade of pink-red with cream hues.
28. Green Rose Buds
Botanical Name: Aeonium aureum
Height/Spread: 4-8/3-7 inches
‘Rose Buds’ forms a cute rosette in bright green color with young pups around the base, which looks like it is surrounded with unopened little buds of roses!
29. Fiesta Aeonium
Botanical Name: Aeonium ‘Fiesta’
Height/Spread: 8-12/4-8 inches
A spectacular variegated variety, the plant forms a large rosette in light green color. The outer leaves take a shade of maroon as they age, giving it a two-tone look.
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