Androsace

[Palustris]

Not found a section for these so I put one in here. And to open it how about this one? Flowering in the  Alpine house, but it grows equally well outside too.
Androsace kosopolanskii

[ruweiss]

Androsace vandellii

[David Nicholson]

My one and only Androsace-Androsace geraniifolia. There will be more eventually.

 

[Michael J Campbell]

Androsace yargongensis

[Lesley Cox]

There's a beautiful plant shown by Mike Ireland in the Northern Hemisphere thread. Would you all have a look at that please. I know it's almost blasphemy to disagree with Franz but.....

I don't think it's sarmentosa, the rosettes are too small.

[Mike Ireland]

Thanks for trying so hard Lesley.

[astragalus]

Is the Androsace yargongensis growing in tufa?  Do you grow it outside?

[peter hood]

There's a beautiful plant shown by Mike Ireland in the Northern Hemisphere thread. Would you all have a look at that please. I know it's almost blasphemy to disagree with Franz but.....

I don't think it's sarmentosa, the rosettes are too small.

Lesley,
I agree with you that the plant is not A.sempervivoides or A. sarmentosa. My own instictive reaction to the picture is Androsace robusta purpurea but it could be a good form of A. jacquemontii as you suggested.

Mike - I hope that is some use to you

[wolfgang vorig]

Androsace globifera

[Lesley Cox]

I had A. globifera once years ago. The flowers were a strong lilac colour.

[Mike Ireland]

Lesley - Peter

A friend has seen the androsace & thought it may be A. villosa jacquemontii.

A search of Google images shows a number of plant images very similar to mine.

Thanks for your help.

[Lesley Cox]

Well that's good to know Mike. There have been two forms of jacquemontii here in NZ at least a couple of years ago. (I didn't realize it was a var or subsp of villosa). One has deep pink flowers and the other more lavender. They are both lovely plants. Yours is particularly good, both in colour and so well grown and healthy.

[Mike Ireland]

Thanks for the comments Lesley. Looks like mine is the pink form you speak of.

[SJW]

A few months ago in another thread I asked about pricking out Androsace vandellii - SRGC seed was sown last February and 11 had germinated. Michael Campbell kindly advised me to wait until early Spring to move them on, which I've now done. Anyway, this is just a quick question about first flowering. Being more of a bulb man I'm used to waiting a while for that much anticipated first flower so I was pleasantly suprised to see that most of these tiny, one-year-old plants each have a flower. I've not grown Androsace before so I'm curious to know whether precocious flowering is a feature of the genus?   

[Michael J Campbell]

Each tiny little rosette on Androsace will flower especially on Vandeilii ,Pyrenaica, ,Cylindrica, Pubescens, Cylindrica x hirtella and the Hybs of the above,some of the others are not so free flowering in the early stages.