News Item: : Saxifraga stolonifera
(Category: Decorative leaf)
Posted by gradinar
Monday 04 August 2008 - 12:28:06


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saxifraga_stolonifera_flower.jpgSynonyms: Saxifraga stolonifera, a type of anise, wild Merudia.
Family: Apiaceae

Perennial, rarely annual or biennial herbaceous plants. Leaves simple goals tselokrayni serrated or without prilistnitsi located are consistent, rarely opposite, usually formed priosnovna jack. Flowers are bisexual, consisting of 5 chashelistcheta and 10 petals and stamens, pistil of 2 plodolista, with two bars. The fruit is razpukliva box. Pollinated by insects. Be reproduced by seed and vegetatively.
Bulgaria has identified 23 species, 5 species are protected by organic rzanoobrazie.
The Latin genus name is pronounced "saksifraga.
Kamenolomkite are popular ornamental plants - used in forming the rockeries, rock groups and others.
The genus name comes from the Latin saxum - rock and frango - break and is related to the ability of certain species to grow in the cracks of the rocks. Its leaves are harvested in prikorenovi rosettes, from both sides descend rare naked stalks. The handles are pile of leaves, reddish in color, elongated. The plant forms long stalks vkorenyavashte be carrying daughter rosettes. Kamenolomkata is grass, vine size about 15 cm, with a daughter rosettes reached 45 - 60 cm


List of some species of the genus Kamenolomka:

Crassulaceae kamenolomka - Saxifraga paniculata
Eastern kamenolomka - Saxifraga luteo-viridis
Striated kamenolomka - Saxifraga exarata
Shady kamenolomka - Saxifraga cymosa

There are small flowers, arranged in complex clusters infundibular on high flowering stem, leaves - with up to 7 centimeters in diameter, rounded, heart-based green pokraya with white, pink stripe.

Can be grown in color compositions, well ventilated places with high humidity. It is recommended to a few pot plants on a large vessel. Used as ampelno (climbing) in the plant rooms and winter gardens.
Suitable for cultivation temperature is 10 - 18 degrees in winter should not fall below 8 - 10 degrees, light and humidity are moderate.

Be watered regularly during the winter - more limited, to prevent preovlazhnyavane.
Fueling of 4 - 6 weeks in winter and summer.

Soil in a 1:1 ratio of peat, sand, leaflet, manure and burnt his chimovka.Rodinata China. Approximately 370 known species are perennial, rarely biennial, and one located in temperate and arctic regions and high mountains in the Northern Hemisphere.

Generation: via its subsidiary propagated rosettes from mid spring to early autumn at 15 - 18 degrees.


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