Wow what a pretty little Orostachys.

Wonderful photo twit. I added it to the database.
If you have any extra of it I would love some. I lost mine, not sure why?

Lynn, how could I ever resist you, especially since you are holding a Japonica for me (also think the fimbriata came from you a couple of years ago). As it happens, I took a lot of pics today of my Orostachys and the Geiger plants. I also divided my fimbriata. I don't have much, as you can see from the photos, but do have enough to share a bit. and I have been ing since I saw the pic of the Japonica. t-mail?

Here is a photo showing your baby offset, already starting to make offsets.


What makes the so scary for me is that they go dormant in the winter. So really have to have them well marked. I now have a much better way to grow them, in their own little square of concrete.

Sorry for the slow responses to your help Lynn. Thank you!

I've been gone for a week and just got back last night. We took the motorcycle to Glacier National Park. Had a fabulous time!! Anyway, thanks for the links - that's what I was looking for. Yes, mine looks exactly like Orostachys japonicum sp.'Tsushima'. Thank you!!!

I have to try to get pictures of all of mine too. I've got 5 or 6 different ones.

Can you experts confirm this ID for me? I have it as O. chrysantha, but think it is Rosularia chrysantha. There is no such plant as O. chrysantha. TIA

I've been trying to research some names of my plants and finally figured out the basic situation, but not the answer. I have four plants trying to sort them.

1) Plant labeled O. eburnifolia
2) Plant labeled O furusei (greener)
3) Plant labeled O furusei (but different from #2) (call it O2 furusei)
4) Plant labeled O furusei (different from #2 and #3) (call it O3 furusei)

O2 furusei and O eburnifolia look to be similar plants, so could be the same, but growth habit seems to be a bit different. One is more compact and the other spreads out more.
O furusei has a different color and is more "green" than the other two.
O3 furusei has a looser structure and slightly more blue/violet than O2 and eburnifolia

Some pics side by side for comparison:
Pic 1: O. eburnifolia.......................................Pic 2: O2 furusei


I want to call both of these (above) eburnifolia, as they are similar and I have a pic from the source showing a commercial plant tag with that name.

Pic 3: O furusei.............................................Pic 4: O3 furusei


Can you see my plight? I'd like to sort these out with at least some commercial names to use. All were grown under similar conditions and photos from the same time.

Here you go twit. This is what we have so far on the Orostachys.

And yes, that is R. chrysantha.

Lynn, did you mean to include another link or list?

Yes. Thank you Bev. I must be getting old---er.
http://garden.org/plants/brows...

Have some recent pictures of my Orostachys to share. Probably my favorite Orostachys to date.

Orostachys fimbriata...................................... O fimbriata showing central core..................

Flower spike closeup........................................................................................................ Offsets

Wow Twit I love your photos, and I love that plant!!!

Sorry about the weeds in the pics though. Would you believe that I did not even see them until looking at the photos again? I really like this plant too.

I can believe that - you were looking at the cool plants. I didn't see the weeds either until you just pointed them out.

Be still my heart.
How wonderful to see that Orostachys again. I lost all of my O. fimbriata to slugs last year. I am now using Slugo and have not lost another Orostachys since.
Awesome photos twit, I added them to the database.

I didn't see the weed until you mentioned it. Had to go back to see what you were talking about, I was so into looking at the wonderful plant.

Guess I need to expand my interest to Orostachys - oh no, another new plant interest

Fortunately it's a small family. Unfortunately, many are hard to get or very very difficult.

Unfortunately, the names are a mess for some of them and they also hybridize easily, so its unlikely that the names will get sorted out soon.

But then we all needed another challenge.

I think I'm good with one to start!

My Orostachys furosei continues to be visited by ants. I think that they are farming small aphids on the flower spikes, but cannot see well enough anymore to be sure that it is aphids or something else that holds their attention. I'll share a few pics here showing the ants, which comb the plants incessantly. Curiously, the ants are leaving the other Orostachys alone, even the fimbriata which is also blooming.

furosei flower spike....................................... furosei with 5 ants seeking?.......................... flower spike with ant


My fimbriata is also blooming (see earlier photos in this thread). I'm going to try to collect seed from both the furosei and the fimbriata for sowing overwinter indoors. I'm trying to decide whther to tro cross pollinating the two varieties for some hybrids or to just self-pollinate the fimbriata for more plants. Any thoughts on which of these to do?

Also think I will divide one of the larger fimbriata rosettes to see if it reacts the same way that sempervivum do to division, possibly triggering more offsets, possibly delaying flowering.

Twit I would suspicion aphids under the leaves by looking at the third photo.

Seems like you have plenty to carry out experiments on both cross pollinating and rosette division. I would give both a try.