UMBILICUS HEYLANDIANUS

Found in Gran Canaria with exposed caudex.

Found in the mountains of Gran Canaria. Form the caudex at an early age.. Photo by Javier Martin, Wikimedia.org. P.B. Webb & S. Berthelot, 1840 CRASSULACEAE Canary Islands, Spain, Portugal, Morocco Mix Medium Minimum - Maximum 8 Centimetres 30 (80) Centimetres Pale - Bright Yellow Seeds/Roots - Cotyledon coutinhoi, Cout., Cotyledon praealta, Samp. Cotyledon umbilicus - veneris var. praealta Brot. Umbilicus citrinus Wolley-Dod. Umbilicus coutinhoi Mariz. Umbilicus pendulinus var. bracteosus Merino, Umbilicus praealtus Mariz. Umbilicus praealtus var. coutinhoi Samp

This member of the Crassulaceae family was given this name by Philip Barker Webb and Sabin Berthelot in 1840. It is found from Spain and Portugal down to the Canary Islands and into Morocco. It grows in a well drained soil with some water and little to lots of sun. The swollen roots can grow to eight centimetres in diameter, and the plant up to 30 centimetres with a inflorescence of 80 centimetres with pale to bright yellow flowers.

The genera name means 'navel', as to dimpled leaf centres. The species name after Jean-Christophe Heyland aka Jean-Christophe Kumpfler, 1791-1866, a Swiss engraver, watercolourist, and illustrator, who produced the plates for many botanical works. Close-up of the flower from Botany.cz. A wild plant on Fuerteventura.