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Jonny_SE

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Unknown Asian perennial....
« 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
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Re: Unknown Asian perennial....
« Reply #1 on: March 30, 2012, 03:31:47 PM »
 :D :D That's no Tulipa, that's for sure!

Chrysosplenium macrophyllum?
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Re: Unknown Asian perennial....
« Reply #2 on: March 30, 2012, 03:36:37 PM »
Bulls eye!!!!!!...Thanks Wim.... :)...i wil not forget that name untill next time  8)
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Re: Unknown Asian perennial....
« Reply #3 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.
« Last Edit: March 30, 2012, 06:49:46 PM by Hoy »
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Re: Unknown Asian perennial....
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2012, 02:23:41 AM »
And very nice too. :)
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