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The commonest of the species, very like R.hookerana in appearance. I only have a tiny bulbil, and I am struggling to get it to increase in size. Plants of the World online says: "The native range of this species is Tropical & Subtropical Old World. It is an epiphyte or lithophyte and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome." |
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| 12th September 2006 | ||
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| 31st August 2008 | ||||
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I would like to say that the small plant has grown, but I have to admit to buying another bulb that was rather larger! The Big Plant Nursery say: "Remusatia viviparia is a rarely seen very jungly looking plant commonly known as the ‘Hitch Hiker’ plant due to it readily producing offsets that have spiny hairs that attach to animals and birds helping spread the plant around the forest floor. For us gardeners the real treat is that the large heart shaped leaves reach 45cm long and 30cm wide and are produced during the summer months. Not terribly hardy but luckily for us Remusatia are naturally winter dormant, the leaves dying down each autumn with the plant overwintering as an underground tuber. Here at Big Plant we simply lift the tubers after the first frost of autumn storing them much the same way as a dahlia only to be potted up, benefiting from a little heat in March/April ready to be planted out after the last frost in May. |
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