Monanthes

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Monanthes >

This is the plant information box - for information on light; water; zones; height; etc. If it is mostly empty you can help grow this page by clicking on the edit tab and filling in the blanks!"This is the plant information box - for information on light; water; zones; height; etc. If it is mostly empty you can help grow this page by clicking on the edit tab and filling in the blanks!" is not in the list (If this plant info box on watering; zones; height; etc. is mostly empty you can click on the edit tab and fill in the blanks!) of allowed values for the "Jump in" property.

Read about Monanthes in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Monanthes (named for the often solitary flower). Crassulaceae. About 10 little fleshy herbs of the Canary Isls. and Morocco. Perennial, tufted, mostly glandular-hairy: lvs. fleshy, clavate or cylindrical, opposite or alternate, part or all of them rosulate: fls. reddish or orange, on slender peduncles, solitary or in cymes or racemes; sepals connate at base; petals 6-12, small, lanceolate; scales broad and petal-like. Closely allied to Cotyledon and Sempervivum, and presumably requiring similar treatment. From Sempervivum it differs in the much more developed scales in the fl., opposite the carpels. Fanciers are likely to grow a number of species; the following description will indicate what the plants are like. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Gallery

• 

  photo 1

• 

  photo 2

• 

  photo 3

References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

External links

• w:Monanthes. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
• Monanthes QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)