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Houttuynia cordata |
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| Common name |
chameleon plant |
| Family |
saururaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial |
| Flowers |
white |
| Size |
1 ft |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
| Cultural notes |
ordinary garden soil |
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| Multicolored pink/burgundy/green foliage. Real pretty, but wants to run by roots in good garden soil - the photo at left shows the pile of roots we gathered from a smallish garden area, after allowing chameleon plant to roam freely for a few years (we're still battling the plants sprouting from roots we missed). It doesn't mind wet roots, so it can be used as pond marginal plant, but for us it hasn't proven winter-hardy that way.
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following area: pondside About my plant portraits
Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Richard | Feb 01, 2005 | Please advise me. If I was to place a plant border underground around the chameleon planting bed, would that keep it in bounds or can it leap over a border like Enlish Ivy does? Thanks, Richard... Please email ga_seagull@yahoo.com |
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