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A silver rosetted hybrid that I bought from Rosemoor. The label says: "Natural hybrid forming encrusted rosettes. Arching sprays of white flowers in summer." Writing about 'Encrusted saxifrages' in the bulletin of the AGS in1947, R. C. C. Clay says: "S. X PARADOXA. Hostii X incrustata - larger form of x Engleri. Rosettes: With more upstanding leaves. Leaves: Dull iron-grey, very long, narrow, leathery, conspicuously beaded, with truncated teeth. Flowers: Small cream coloured flowers in sprays of the Aizoon type on short, dark brown stems. (There is also a Saxifraga paradoxa, a sub-shrub described by Count Kaspar Maria von Sternberg in 1810, that should not be confused with this silver herbaceous hybrid.) |
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