Bergenia ciliata
Kashmir Bergenia ( Bergenia ciliata )
The Kashmir Bergenia ( Bergenia ciliata ) is a plant of the genus Bergenien ( Bergenia ) in the family Saxifragaceae ( Saxifragaceae ). The species forms hybrids with Bergenia cordifolia Bergenia purpurascens Bergenia and stracheyi. In addition to the nominate Bergenia ciliata Bergenia ciliata f ciliata was described f ligulata Yeo.
Features
The Kashmir Bergenia is a perennial plant that reaches stature heights between 5 and 30 centimeters. It forms a rhizome. The leaf blade is summer green, circular or broadly ovate, rounded at base or cordate and hairy on both sides. There are no stalked glands on the inflorescence branches. The flowers are erect upward directed to an angle. The petals are white at first, sometimes tinted pink, and later sometimes red. Your plate is more or less circular or broadly ovate, narrowed suddenly into the nail and measures 1.1 to 1.8 × 0.7 to 1.8 centimeters.
The leaves of Bergenia ciliata f ligulata both sides are bare, the leaf margin is ciliate.
It blooms in March and April.
Occurrence
Bergenia ciliata f ciliata comes in western Pakistan, Südkaschmir and West Nepal in woods and on shaded ledges at altitudes 1800-4300 meters in front, Bergenia ciliata f ligulata in eastern Afghanistan, Western Pakistan, South Kashmir and South Tibet to Bhutan and Assam on rocks and in forests at altitudes 900-3000 m.
Use
The Kashmir Bergenia is rarely used as an ornamental plant for rock gardens and copses. Bergenia ciliata ciliata f is at least since 1843 in Culture, Bergenia ciliata f ligulata since at least 1840.
System
The British botanist Adrian Hardy Haworth described the plant in 1821 under the taxon Megasea ciliata. This taxon is the basionym for the description of 1831 by the Austrian botanist Kaspar Maria von Sternberg, who then assigned the plant under the taxon Bergenia ciliata the genus Bergenien.