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Specific Families and Genera => Saxifraga => Topic started by: iann on April 14, 2010, 03:57:00 PM

Title: Some Saxes
Post by: iann on April 14, 2010, 03:57:00 PM

What are these?  Two different types, one slightly bluer than the other.  They aren't what I thought when I bought them.  Probably hybrids.

Title: Re: Some Saxes
Post by: Lesley Cox on April 14, 2010, 10:27:30 PM

Good question. Hybrids of S. stribrynii perhaps?

Title: Re: Some Saxes
Post by: iann on April 16, 2010, 01:25:17 AM

One was supposed to be 'Allendale Beauty' and I think the other one was an Allendale cultivar also.  Clearly not.  S. stribrny looks close.  There seem to be several similar species in the same series.

Title: Re: Some Saxes
Post by: hadacekf on April 16, 2010, 07:39:59 PM

The slighly bluer is Saxifraga sempervivum and the other two are hybrids with S. sempervivum.

Title: Re: Some Saxes
Post by: iann on April 16, 2010, 10:32:31 PM

Thanks.  That's one of the related species I was looking at, but I wasn't sure how to reliably tell several of them apart.