Chinese Dunce Cap Plant

A hardy spreading perennial succulent.

Chinese dunce cap plant.

Will die back after flowering but it self sows to repeat the show next season. Hailing from the far east dunce caps start as a low spreading mat of lovely small blue gray rosettes. Its leaves are simple oval shaped or spatulated gray silver tone distributed as a rosette. It belongs to the family crassulaceae.

Orostachys iwarenge chinese dunce cap the orostachys iwarenge is a small perennial succulent plant native to the east. About orostachys iwarenge chinese dunce cap succulents thrive in the chilly forest valleys of the japanese alps and other mountainous regions of. Dunce cap this small lavender succulent has cone shaped rosettes. Beautiful rosettes of blue grey foliage are borne on the ends of short stems with smaller rosettes branching from the larger stems creating a beautiful silver low groundcover.

This species grows best in cool weather and appears dormant mid summer it grows all winter long when protected from frost in a greenhouse even with lows in the 20 s. It is monocarpic but produces offsets on long stems that shoot out from the main rosette allowing for easy propagation. Eventually the pointy cones may produce tiny flowers. Large gray tapering spikes of orange and white flowers are borne in late summer fall.

Orostachys iwarenge chinese dunce cap is an attractive groundcover with cone shaped rosettes up to 2 inches 5 cm in diameter of fleshy succulentopedia orostachys boehmeri chinese dunce cap. This plant gets its nickname for the bloom that emerges from the center of the mother plant. Perfect for containers and for rock fairy and vertical gardens. It is one of the few succulents that are native to the asian continent and they can withstand freezing temperatures and.

Orostachys succulents are. Orostachys boehmeri or orostachys iwarenge a k a chinese dunce cap. When grown outside you ll notice that it will go dormant and appear dead in the winter months but it will grow back in the spring. By september the spires reach 6 inches tall with pink and white frilly flowers.

Small soft rosettes in a bluish green grey color with shooting off runners of tiny offspring similar to a spider or strawberry plant. Dunce cap also known as chinese dunce cap orostachys iwarenge is a succulent plant named for its spires of silvery lavender cone shaped rosettes. It soon forms a multitude of pinkish conical spires think an elfin cityscape.