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Saxifraga fortunei
Fortune's saxifrage is a shade-loving perennial with large round fleshy leaves and sprays of small white star-shaped flowers in summer. It does best in cool, moist, well-drained soil in deep or partial shade.
Saxifraga fortunei (齿瓣虎耳草), the fortune saxifrage, is a species of flowering plant in the family Saxifragaceae, native to China, Japan and Korea. Growing to just 40 cm (16 in) tall and broad, it is a shade-loving herbaceous perennial with large round fleshy leaves. Slender branched stalks bear panicles of small white starry flowers in summer. The two lower petals of each bloom are significantly longer than the others. Both the flowers and the leaves are sometimes flushed red or pink.
As a garden plant, Saxifraga fortunei flourishes in deep or partial shade, in soil which is well-drained but reliably moist. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. S. fortunei is a parent of many hybrids and cultivars, some of which have also won this award:-
Saxifraga burseriana · Thick Leaved Saxifrage · Saxifraga candelabrum · Saxifraga cochlearis · Saxifraga cotyledon · Lesser Londonpride · Mossy Saxifrage · Kabschia Saxifrage · Purple mountain saxifrage · Livelong Saxifrage · Creeping saxifrage · Pyrenean Saxifrage
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Saxifraga fortunei by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
