Saxifraga for ID

[Roma]

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.

[Maggi Young]

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'

[Maggi Young]

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

[Roma]

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. 
 

[Tim R]

Roma
Your label is correct, the plant is Saxifraga x megaseaflora 'Krasava'
Tim

[David Nicholson]

I have a couple of lost label Saxes could anyone ID them please?

[hadacekf]

David,
I think the first picture shows Saxifraga 'Clarence Elliott' . Very similar is Saxifraga London Pride.

[Lesley Cox]

Or you could call them Saxifraga "A" and "B" 

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks Franz you have solved one problem for me.

Lesley, I wouldn't sleep at night if I did that

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?

[Diane Clement]

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

[David Nicholson]

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

Thanks for the Link Diane. It does look feasible. This is the first seedling to flower and it's a bit sparse this year.

[Diane Clement]

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)

[David Nicholson]

Thanks for that Diane. I think this is perhaps a better pic of the rosette of my plant.

[Mick McLoughlin]

David,
This is what I have labelled as s. australis superba.
Cheers
Mick

[Roma]

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.