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Is it too awful a pun to call it "world glass'? Yes, I think it probably is, it isn't that good. 'Moonstone' would be a better German translation. A vigorous green cultivar. There is nothing wrong with it but I never took to the plant, I don't know why. Just as I look at some plants with baseless affection, so I always viewed this with unjustified indifference. Raised by Kayser and Seibert in Germany and introduced in 1980. Horst Diehm says: "6 cm rosettes, green, outermost tips brown, flower pink, height 15 cm" Dr. Fritz Köhlein writes in his book "Freilandssuckulenten": "Old variety with medium-sized rosettes, whose leaves vary between amber and garnet red, the edge is ciliated. Flower light pink with purple center." Quoted on Sempervivum List, Erwin Geiger says: "A German cultivar of which once again two different plants are in cultivation. We received the 'moonstone' offered here from a nursery in Austria. The houseleek forms medium-sized, fresh green rosettes with strongly marked tips. A very vigorous plant! Dr. Fritz Köhlein describes in his book with "light brown-red, small to medium-sized rosettes, tips of the outer leaves slightly greenish" probably a different type - it is questionable here which one is the real one. |
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| 7th November 2008 | ||
