Sempervivum

Plant list: Ophiopogon planiscapus 'Nigrescens' x 2, Euphorbia amygdaloides 'Purpurea' x 1, sempervivum x 2, Helichrysum italicum (curry plant) x 2. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Succulents--a plant gang that includes cacti, the tender and showy echeverias, and cold-hardy sempervivum commonly known as hen and chicks, among others--so do not suck that I'm always amazed when I realize so many people I know and love haven't really noticed them before. ❋ Omnivoracious (2010)

Those hypertufa containers are just what I need for my sempervivum collection. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Love the pics of the punky cardinal and the sempervivum. ❋ Unknown (2008)

To weave spells, though, try the spider web sempervivum; Dortort writes that the ancient Romans decorated grave sites with them because their ability to endure the direst conditions "hinted at immortality." ❋ By DOMINIQUE BROWNING (2011)

Aloes is made from the leaves of a plant resembling our sempervivum, or house-leek, the roots and stalk being cut away, the rest strongly pressed, and the juice boiled up to a certain height, after which it is put into earthen pots, closely stopped for eight months, and is then put into skins for sale. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

We saw likewise here abundance of a plant, hardly to be distinguished from the _sempervivum_ of Socotora, whence the Socotrine aloes is made; but I know not if the savage natives of this island have any knowledge of its use. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

These islands produce some cedars, and we found near the sea a green prickly plant, with leaves like those of the _penguin_ plant, and roots like those of the _sempervivum_, but much longer, the Indians of ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)

Meg Bernstein at July 14, 2009 7: 26 AM does anybody have a good quick way of visually differentiating sempervivum and jovibarba? thanks! ❋ Unknown (2009)

(I think it's a sempervivum but I'm not sure because my leaf shapes are slightly different and overall they look more cabbage-like.) ❋ Unknown (2008)

(_sempervivum urbium_), brought from Madeira, was first described by the 'gifted Swede' Professor Smith, who died on the Congo ❋ Richard Francis Burton (1855)