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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: Jonny_SE on March 30, 2012, 03:26:48 PM

Title: Unknown Asian perennial....
Post by: Jonny_SE on March 30, 2012, 03:26:48 PM

I got this last year from Gothenburg botanical garden...but the sticker with the name on are long gone...the only sticker i found there was "Tulipa sprengeri"...i find it a bit difficult to belive such a drastic transformation over 5 months  ;D....It's a groundcover "thing" 5cm high and flowers aprox.5cm big...anyone???.....Jonny

Title: Re: Unknown Asian perennial....
Post by: WimB on March 30, 2012, 03:31:47 PM

 :D :D That's no Tulipa, that's for sure!

Chrysosplenium macrophyllum?

Title: Re: Unknown Asian perennial....
Post by: Jonny_SE on March 30, 2012, 03:36:37 PM

Bulls eye!!!!!!...Thanks Wim.... :)...i wil not forget that name untill next time  8)

Title: Re: Unknown Asian perennial....
Post by: Hoy on March 30, 2012, 06:41:56 PM

It certainly is Chrysosplenium macrophyllum which is easy to please and quite hardy. It grows best in moist soil and will cover several square meter by runners in a couple of years. However, it is easy to remove unwanted plants. Here it flowers in March. A similar but smaller species is C davidii with yellow flowers (the real flowers are small but surrounded with huge colourful bracts) and flowers in April.

Title: Re: Unknown Asian perennial....
Post by: Lesley Cox on April 03, 2012, 02:23:41 AM

And very nice too. :)