Orostachys iwarenge Phytolacca highlighted with dark purple flecks

highlighted with dark purple flecks

Each flower is held tight by a dark burgundy calyx (the thing the flower sits in)

Bear's breech is propagated from root cuttings

who had only seen dead herbarium specimens

Orostachys iwarenge Phytolacca highlighted with dark purple flecksOrostachys iwarenge, from the Japanese mountain cliffs, is a cute little sedum cousin which forms an attractive evergreen groundcover when cultivated in the rock garden. The glaucous grey brown, 2" wide, fleshy rosettes, which resemble sempervivums, spread by short stolons to form an 1" tall x 18" wide patch. In October, the rosettes are topped with 4" tall towers jammed with tiny creamy flowers. Each flowering rosette dies away but is unnoticed among