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Something I inherited in a pot from somewhere else - the details are a complete mystery to me.
Every now and then something unexpected pops up and sometimes it takes a while to sort
out an identity. This has beautiful silvery leaves and has an astonishing ability to produce
seedlings where they aren't expected. It first appeared here in a pot of Sempervivum
so I have probably handed it on to others as well. Plants of the World online says: "The native range of this variety is Central & S. China to Korea, S. Sakhalin to Taiwan. It is a perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome." Missouri Botanic Gardens Plantfinder says: "Viola grypoceras is an herbaceous mounded perennial violet that is native to grassy slopes and thickets in eastern Asia from China to Korea and Japan. It typically grows on upright stems to 3-6” tall and to 8” wide. Purplish to white, 5-petaled violets (each less than 1”) bloom from the leaf axils in April-June. Flowers may not appear every year. Rounded, normally unvariegated, dark green leaves (to 4” long) are ornamentally attractive. Var. exilis is shorter than the straight species, having creeping, nearly procumbent stems rising to only 2-3” tall with a slightly larger spread. The variegated silver-gray leaves of this variety are decorated with bold, distinctive, ornamentally attractive, cyclamen-like deep green markings. Although this variety has been recognized by some authorities, it has also been considered by a number of different authorities to be simply a synonym of the species (variegated leaves are not recognized to be a basis for classifying it as a variety)." |
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| 29th March 2009 | ||
