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Aeonium glutinosum (Aiton) Webb & Berthel.

Viscid Houseleek

Climate known 80 photographs Cactus or succulent
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Summary

Aeonium glutinosum is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae endemic to Madeira, Portugal. It has fairly thick leaves and its appearance varies depending on its growing conditions. One characteristic is the very sticky stem of the inflorescence. The main flower is shown but small stalks with flowers continue to appear for several months.

Text from Wikipedia, “Aeonium glutinosum”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Aeonium

Aeonium, the tree houseleeks, is a genus of about 35 species of succulent, subtropical plants of the family Crassulaceae. Many species are popular in horticulture. The genus name comes from the ancient Greek αἰώνιος / aiōnios (ageless). More on Wikipedia ›

The opening of Wikipedia, “Aeonium”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Crassulaceae
Described by
(Aiton) Webb & Berthel.
Native to
Madeira
Wild records
865 in range· 421 open

At a glance

Warmest month
23°C
Aug, mean day; nights 20 °C (CHELSA)
Rain
2006mm/yr
10 wet months · peak Dec 345 mm (CHELSA)
Light
16–47DLI
mol/m²/day, winter to summer, open sky (CHELSA shortwave)
In short condensed by rule from the cultivation cards · not written by a person
Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Aeonium, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). Rain rule: a winter growing season, October to March in the northern hemisphere (October to March at the habitat, northern). Habitat rain 2006 mm a year, wettest December at 345 mm, driest July at 15 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere). Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 47 mol/m²/day. Cold floor 12.7 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
Each sentence is one card's own one-line form, written by the same rule as the card (Its year, Rain, Light, Temperature); the note cannot say what a card does not. Months are given for the northern hemisphere (set your site in Settings to change this), and the habitat's own alongside. The cards · the figures.

Also known as Sempervivum glutinosum Aiton.

Cultivation

Grouped as a cactus or succulent by the genus Aeonium, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.

Its year Rain rule: a winter growing season, October to March in the northern hemisphere (October to March at the habitat, northern).

This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.

The rain rule reads a winter growing season: 70% of the year's rain (1540 mm of 2006 mm) falls in October to March, cooler than the year (wet-season mean 16.1 °C against a yearly mean of 17.4 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: April to September.

Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.

Rain Habitat rain 2006 mm a year, wettest December at 345 mm, driest July at 15 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

2006 mm a year at the habitat, 1540 mm of it October to March. Wettest month December at 345 mm, driest July at 15 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 1294 mm to 2661 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).

CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.

Light Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 47 mol/m²/day.

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Open sky over the habitat: 16 to 47 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 13, the highest 90th-percentile month 47).

CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.

Warmth and air Cold floor 12.7 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).

This species’ habitat figures, with their source.

Temperature

Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is 12.7 °C, the absolute minimum 9.8 °C, no frost in 44 years (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 22.8 °C. Monthly means: coldest night 13.0 °C in February (across the envelope cells 8.7 °C to 14.9 °C), warmest day 22.8 °C in August (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: 12.7 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).

NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.

Humidity

Relative humidity at the habitat: 62 to 64% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.

CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.

The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.

Climate across the habitat

Habitat climate through the yearMean day from 16 °C in Feb to 23 °C in Aug; mean night from 13 °C in Feb to 20 °C in Aug. The cold quarter, Jan to Mar, is the three months around the coldest night. 2006 mm of rain a year, most in Dec. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 46 habitat cells. Over 44 years at the typical cell the absolute minimum was 9.8 °C and the 99th-percentile day 22.8 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.10°15°20°25°22.8° 99th-percentile day (undated)9.8° lowest night in 44 yrs (undated)°C · day and nightcold quarter0100200300400500mm rainDLI 16–47RH 62–64 %JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
day night rain 10th–90th percentile across 46 habitat cells cold quarter: the three months around the coldest night extremes over 44 years at the typical cell, marked at the edge: undated DLI, mol/m²/dayRH %each on its own scale
Figures by month
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Day °C16 / 12–1716 / 12–1716 / 13–1716 / 13–1818 / 15–1920 / 19–2122 / 21–2323 / 22–2422 / 20–2321 / 17–2219 / 14–2017 / 13–18
Night °C13 / 9–1513 / 9–1513 / 9–1514 / 9–1515 / 11–1617 / 15–1819 / 18–1920 / 18–2120 / 16–2118 / 14–2016 / 11–1815 / 10–17
Rain mm235 / 154–311242 / 160–317202 / 129–268166 / 99–22798 / 59–13153 / 33–6815 / 11–2223 / 16–30111 / 75–144237 / 155–310279 / 180–373345 / 213–469
DLI18 / 15–2124 / 21–2732 / 29–3538 / 36–4043 / 42–4445 / 45–4647 / 46–4742 / 41–4435 / 32–3726 / 23–2920 / 16–2316 / 13–19
RH %63 / 59–6663 / 60–6562 / 60–6563 / 59–6563 / 59–6663 / 60–6662 / 56–6562 / 59–6563 / 59–6664 / 60–6763 / 60–6663 / 60–68

Each figure is the median across the 46 grid cells holding the 835 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 1143:3259 (32.825, -17.025). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum 9.8 °C, 1st-percentile night 12.7 °C, 99th-percentile day 22.8 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 46 distinct grid cells holding the 835 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 1143:3259 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 33.00_-16.875, lapse-corrected +283 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 312 m (cell mean).

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP; the marker is where the records are densest and decides nothing: the climate was read across every in-range record's cell, not at the marker.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeMadeira
Kew's description“succulent subshrub” · “subtropical”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Map marker32.72, -16.963 · in the densest population, 865 records (100% of those in range)
Evidence usedThe map marker and the climate envelope rest on all 865 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 421 openly licensed ones, which alone would put the marker 1 km away. 23 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. 30 in-range records are placed to worse than 10 km and stay on the map but off the climate.
The map markerthe map marker: the openly licensed record nearest the middle of the densest 1° population of the 865 in-range records; it decides nothing.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) zebedeugalinha, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Andre Hosper, some rights reserved (CC BY); (c) Vítor Jorge, some rights reserved (CC BY) (6).

Photographs: iNaturalist and Wikimedia Commons did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Aeonium glutinosum, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

The ethnopharmacology of Madeira and Porto Santo Islands, a review
Diego Rivera, Concepción Obón (1995) · Journal of Ethnopharmacology
Flora of Macaronesia. Checklist of vascular plants. 4. revised edition
Aslak Kappel Hansen, P. Sunding (1993) · Sommerfeltia
Pollination strategy of Gennaria diphylla (Orchidaceae) on the Canary Islands and on Madeira
Jean Claessens, A. M. Franquinho Aguiar, Ole Karsholt, Juan José Bacallado (2022) · Mediterranean Botany
Pflanzliche Biodiversität im Wohngebiet Landrain in Halle/Saale
Rudolf Schubert (2013) · Mitteilungen zur floristischen Kartierung in Sachsen-Anhalt
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility
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GBIF.org User (2026) · Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.

Other Aeonium 35 in the reference

History & registers

Where this page came from built 2026-09-20 · dossier v2 · node
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wcvp.distribution answered
gbif.occurrences answeredGBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.3h4zam
climate answered
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Every upstream is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, or refused. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 14 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.