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Rhodiola pachyclados |
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| Synonym(s) |
Sedum pachyclados |
| Common name |
stonecrop |
| Family |
crassulaceae |
| Life cycle |
perennial |
| Size |
6" |
| Light |
sun |
| Cultural notes |
well-drained soil |
This small stonecrop, purchased at a hardy plant society sale, has been in our garden for two seasons now, and it has yet to bloom. The foliage is rather like that of S. kamtschaticum, but with a blue-green rather than plain green color. Nomenclature is somewhat confused, see discussion below.
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This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away... About my plant portraits
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Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Gal Attila | Feb 27, 2005 | As far as I know the name of this plant correctly is: Sedum pachyclados.
Thanks for your input. Neither species name appears in GRIN, and Google references are about evenly split. I will add S. pachyclados as an additional synonym to my page, until I get this sorted out. |
| James Cheshire | Jul 30, 2005 | Hi Rob, the correct name for this plant is Rhodiola pachyclados. Here's the link to the species page in Flora of Pakistan: tinyurl.com/aodkv.
Incidentally, Platycladus is a monotypic conifer genus, the single species being P. orientalis (chinese arborvitae). I think someone in horticulture just got this confused with the similar-sounding pachyclados (which means thick branch/shoot) and the name stuck.
Excellent, James. Thanks much - I will update my page. |
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