Thursday, March 05, 2020

A Cone Of Yellow Flowers

This is blooming over on our side yard. I don't know what it is, but the geometry of it fascinates me. The top view is so dense with yellow flowers that it seems like a solid mass. I left the photos large, so they might be worth a click.

Enjoy!


3 comments:

tim eisele said...

Very nice! I thought they might be some kind of sedum at first, but it turns out that sedum blossoms have five petals, while yours have nine.

I did find these plants, though, that are related to the sedums - the Pinwheel Desert Rose:

https://worldoffloweringplants.com/aeonium-arboreum-pinwheel-desert-rose-houseleek-tree/

The profuse pyramid of nine-petaled yellow blossoms certainly looks right, and the leaves visible in the background look like a good match, too. I don't think I'm ever going to see them up here, though, except maybe as a houseplant: it gives their plant hardiness zone as 9b, while we are only around 4.

Foxfier said...

I popped over to say it looks like an aeonium, too. This page says "Zwartkop," but somehow I'm guessing it's not incredibly pure. :)

https://debraleebaldwin.com/aeonium-photos-labeled-feel-free-to-use/


Do they have any notable scent?

K T Cat said...

Great sleuthing, both of you! Wife kitteh says it's also called a Black Rose succulent. Foxie, I found it under the Zwartkop moniker, too.

No scent at all.