Description

Description by Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, 1963:


Sempervivum reginae-amaliae, Heldr. & Sart. Rosettes about 3 in. diam., the new ones sessile: lvs. 100 or more to a rosette, obovate-cuneate, distinctly cuspidate, all bright purplish brown in the upper half, green only toward the base, glabrous, margin ciliate, outer lvs. 1- 1 1/4 x 1/2-5/8 in.; cauline lvs. crowded, lanceolate, brown, slightly pubescent: fl.-st. including infl. 6 in. high, densely pubescent: fls. 6-7-merous, pale yellow, in a dense many-fld., capitate panicle; calyx finely glandular-pubescent, segms. lanceolate; petals lingulate, obtuse, obscurely tricuspidate, densely glandular externally. Mountains of Greece.

Sempervivum reginae-amaliae has a relatively large area, apart from Greece in Albania is growing, perhaps even in Croatian Biokovo and even in southern Macedonia. I took a photo on the tops of the mountain plateau Baba (Pelister) below the top of Stiv. I did not know about the occurrence of S. reginae-amaliae (2420 m), so I thought it was an extreme form of P. marmoreum, which also grows here, but below (1600 m approx). I discovered my mistake when at home :-))




Classic Sempervivum marmoreum below the tree line


The view from the top Stiv to the top of Pelister (2601 m)

Hm, this is as close to the top of Pelister I'm gonna get! Breathtaking view but such a dangarous path! But I guess you love to climb mountains.

So much about Sempervivums in former Yugoslavia (now Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo and FYR Macedonia) is yet to be discovered!

Yes, the road was very dangerous, but I love the mountains and we also had beautiful weather :-). Sempervivum reginae-amaliae plateau in the mountains Baba Wale describe it, but I did not know. Balkan Peninsula is the "Promised Land" for lovers Houseleeks.