Chinese Dunce Cap Succulent Care

Plant database entry for dunce s cap orostachys iwarenge with 70 images 2 comments and 19 data details.

Chinese dunce cap succulent care.

Dunce cap grows in mats but then as it matures the rosettes grow taller into a fuller cone shape. General care for orostachys iwarenge dunce cap orostachys iwarenge dunce cap adds excellent ground cover to succulent gardens. This succulent s leaves ran. Orostachys iwarenge also known as dunce s cap or chinese dunce cap is a small perennial that belongs to the flowering plant family crassulaceae genus orostachys.

Most importantly like all succulent plants orostachys dunce cap requires well drained soil and is likely to rot in humid conditions. Growing chinese dunce cap is easy. This variety is native to japan. Orostachys chinese hat syn.

Orostachys boehmeri chinese dunce cap is an attractive small succulent that forms open rosettes up to 2 inches 5 cm in diameter of. Boehmeri chinese dunce cap contrary to its name chinese dunce cap grows naturally in the cool forest valleys of the japanese alps. Has the delicate pastel look of a soft succulent but can grow outdoors year round in zones 6 it grows as clustering lavender grey rosettes and tolerates hard frosts by senescing completely aboveground and re sprouting in spring. Boehmeri chinese dunce cap an interesting little succulent from japan with rosettes of very pale grey leaves.

If grown in container gardens its offsets trail down. Orostachys iwarenge chinese dunce cap 1 x single stem rosette unrooted cutting rostachys iwarenge is a cute little succulent plant which forms an attractive evergreen groundcover when cultivated in the rock garden the glaucous grey brown up to 2 inches 5 cm wide fleshy rosettes spread by short stolons to form an up to 1 inch 2 5 cm tall and 18 inches 45 cm wide patch. Chineseduncecap succulentcaretips quick care tips full to partial sunlight depending on the rainfall situation in your area watering must be done when so. Dunce cap plant care.

How to care for orostachys iwarenge var. In late summer and autumn 5 10cm pale yellow flower spikes poke up from the rosettes forming cone shapes that resemble a chinese hat. Chinese dunce cap orostachys malacophylla var. The name of this plant references the tall conical shape of.