Scottish Rock Garden Club Forum
Specific Families and Genera => Saxifraga => Topic started by: Roma on April 14, 2010, 10:43:03 PM
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Does anyone recognise this Saxifrage? It opens pale pink and fades to white. The faded name on the label looks like 'Kasava'. I see in the Plantfinder there is a Saxifraga 'Krasava' but without a description I am none the wiser.
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www.arrowheadalpines.com/white2_gallery/pages/Saxifraga x megaseaeflora 'Krasava'.htm ( two photos) ...... not quite a match .... here are other cultivars with similar names but I haven't yet found photos of them....
Saxifraga x megaseaeflora 'Karel Hasler' .... no, this one's yellow!
Saxifraga x megaseaeflora 'Karlin'
Saxifraga x megaseaeflora 'Krákatit'
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Found this photo of Krasava which looks more like yours, Roma..... :-\
http://plantes-passion.forumactif.fr/les-plantes-de-rocaille-f17/saxifrages-le-retour-t2956.htm
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Thanks Maggi, that looks like it. You are amazing! If I could remember who I bought it from I could have asked them. I do try to note new purchases but often do not write them down before I've forgotten where they came from.
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Roma
Your label is correct, the plant is Saxifraga x megaseaflora 'Krasava'
Tim
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I have a couple of lost label Saxes could anyone ID them please?
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David,
I think the first picture shows Saxifraga 'Clarence Elliott' . Very similar is Saxifraga London Pride.
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Or you could call them Saxifraga "A" and "B" ;D
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Many thanks Franz you have solved one problem for me.
Lesley, I wouldn't sleep at night if I did that ;D
I've been racking my brains and thumbing through old notebooks trying to solve the picture two problem. Possibly four/five years ago I sowed seed from the SRGC Exchange of two Silver Saxes and, of those that survived my neglect, the resultant seedlings were very similar to my inexperienced eye. I can't remember their species names but do remember that "australis" was included in one of them. I have searched through my copy of Malcolm McGregor's "Saxifrages and can only find one mention of "australis"- Saxifraga callosa ssp. callosa var. australis. Is my picture good enough to confirm if my plant is possibly this one please?
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I have searched through my copy of Malcolm McGregor's "Saxifrages and can only find one mention of "australis"- Saxifraga callosa ssp. callosa var. australis. Is my picture good enough to confirm if my plant is possibly this one please?
Looks possible David - take a look at the Saxifraga Soc site here:
http://www.saxifraga.org/plants/saxbase/taxon.asp?Taxon=877 (http://www.saxifraga.org/plants/saxbase/taxon.asp?Taxon=877)
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I have searched through my copy of Malcolm McGregor's "Saxifrages and can only find one mention of "australis"- Saxifraga callosa ssp. callosa var. australis. Is my picture good enough to confirm if my plant is possibly this one please?
Looks possible David - take a look at the Saxifraga Soc site here:
http://www.saxifraga.org/plants/saxbase/taxon.asp?Taxon=877 (http://www.saxifraga.org/plants/saxbase/taxon.asp?Taxon=877)
Thanks for the Link Diane. It does look feasible. This is the first seedling to flower and it's a bit sparse this year.
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Thanks for the Link Diane. It does look feasible. This is the first seedling to flower and it's a bit sparse this year.
I've just looked it up in Beryl Bland's book 'Silver Saxifrages'. She says of S callosa subsp callosa var australis:
Distinguished from var callosa by having strongly recurved oblanceolate leaves that broaden at the tip (which is almost diamond shaped)
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Thanks for that Diane. I think this is perhaps a better pic of the rosette of my plant.
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David,
This is what I have labelled as s. australis superba.
Cheers
Mick
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Another Sax for ID. I got this one many years ago from Holden Clough Nursery as Saxifraga arco-valleyi 'Arco' which it definitely is not. It sat in my raised bed growing very slowly. Two or maybe three years ago I split it up and have 5 plants in pots now. The rosettes are tiny and the flower stems are a bit long compared to the size of the plant.
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A friend gave me this saxifraga. Can anyone help with its name please?
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Oops sorry, pics not the right size. Hope its ok Maggi...
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I'd resize them for you, Christine, but my connection is being troublesome. :-X
Not to worry!
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Amongst the Sax seed I've received from the Exchanges is S. x cochlearifolia and I can't find any reference to it in McGregor. Could anyone tell me more about it please?
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Beats me, David, I see Kew lists it as an 'unresolved' name -
Saxifragaceae Saxifraga × cochleariifolia Schrad. ex Kunze
Linnaea 16: 318. 1842
Original Data: ??
Notes: Europ
I expect Adrian, Tim or one of the others may know more.
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My guess is that it is a corruption of S. cochlearis, or S. cochlearis x ?. Which could be S. x farreri or S. 'Probynii'.
Tim.
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Saxifraga × cochleariifolia Schrad. ex Kunze
= Ss. rotundifolia x x polita ?
This was a garden hybrid 150 years ago,
it is reported as extinct many many years ago.
Also as it is a hybrid you cannot grow it from seed.
I would treat this seed with a lot of caution,
let us know what comes from it. ;D
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Thanks Tim and Adrian, I'll label it "Saxifraga ???" and hopefully, one of these days, I'll be able to post a pic of what comes up.
It was in both SRGC and AGS Exchanges- (3702 SRGC) (5118 AGS) if the donator(s) read this perhaps they might tell us more and show us a pic.
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A friend gave me this saxifraga. Can anyone help with its name please?
Long time since you posted this Chris but I found it today whilst browsing. Your plant looks very similar to a seedling I grew see here, reply 56
http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9979.45 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=9979.45)