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A species from Turkey, Iran and Iraq that resembles R. ficaria but prospers with a rather drier winter rest. This clone is curious in producing pale yellow new growth in spring. It is a snow melt species so it may be adapted to produce pale leaves that green up as the snow melts (however not all clones behave like this). Very bright and cheerful, I'm not sure that it will prosper among the Celandines but I couldn't think where else to try it. The Alpine Garden Society says: "Much like R. ficaria, but smaller, with almost entire to weakly crenate leaves which are ovate-orbicular to broadly elliptic-oblong. Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Transcaucasia, on rocky slopes near melting snow at up to 3000m. It has persisted here for a long time without ever being spectacular. If I noticed that it had gone then I would miss it. If. |
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| 16th February 2014 | ||
