Flat, plate-shaped green Aeonium from Tenerife in the Canary Islands. Some plants may have purplish leaves. The nearly stemless rosette may grow to 12 inches in diameter (in cultivation, much less in habitat) before it starts bulging in the middle and a long inflorescence grows out, bearing whitish flowers in late spring or summer. This species is strictly monocarpic (dying after flowering). It is propagated from seed (and may be self fertile), leaves, or offsets from the crested form.

Other plants are frequently misidentified as tabuliforme in cultivation (and short-stemmed hybrids do exist) but it is pretty much unique among Aeoniums in being so low and so solitary.

The CoL spells the species name tabulaeforme, but it was originally described by Haworth as Sempervivum tabuliforme in 1819, so this is the correct spelling, not the other variant, which was apparently used in the trade.

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