And we have again an error or negligence rather horticultural companies, perhaps targeted obochodní move which, while ensuring that some kind of plant that sells only one distribution company (because it simply does not exist and that kind of name is invented), but also promotes confusion in the genus Sedum. Last year (2009), I hit the stonecrop offer beautiful dark bronze color. just could not resist a plant I bought for little money. On her nametag read reflexum Sedum 'Chocolate Ball'. Of course that was followed by the first correction to the names of reflexum rupestre. But it just seemed to be wrong, because the linear leaves are very delicate and more flattened than the Sedum rupestre. Following repair of the second, the possible name Sedum montanum, which would have corresponded to plant habit.

When you enter names into the Czech search engine we jumped only two links with the name kultivarovým Chocolate Ball, which is strange. From experience it is the first hint of bad names. When you enter your password to foreign search engines and Clicked on several aspects of chocolates I finally came across the first link where it appeared under the name of the same plant Sedum hakonense Chocolate Ball. Which is the second name displayed in the Czech search engines. That's at least closer lokalitnímu location of the stonecrop. Well I will not stretch, of course, that both are bad names.

The plant, whose name we are searching for is called Sedum polytrichoides (Hemsley in FB Forbes & Hemsley, J. Linn. Soc, Bot. 23: 286th 1887th). The areas of occurrence are given Korea, Russia, Japan, where it grows near the coast and on the edges of mountain forests, on damp rocky places polostinných at altitudes around 1000 meters. Coloration typical linear leaves are widely rozprostěné from the base toward the apex vzpřimující, on top of the upright stem is half-upright, to 10 cm long. Significantly yellow flowers are pětičetné the spread to 2-4 shoulder umbel. Sepaly are ovate-lanceolate, half-upright. The stamens are ten in number shorter than petals, Karpel are upright. Flowers bloom from July to September and from mid September to shudder. The plant forms a dense half-upright growth.

To grow in our conditions we choose a sunny location with soil vhlčí. The species is hydrophilic and lack of moisture in the leaves spread out to straighten and pull the stem and gradually prolonged drought dries. In the absence of sun a dark bronze color fades and the leaves become dark green.

This sedum is conditionally zimuvzdorný. It depends on what the mother plant was brought. Therefore, I would recommend to try some resistance rostlinkách umístněných at various locations both in the garden and in a cold greenhouse. As I tested, the Japanese species of Sedum are more sensitive to frost, so Sedum polytrichoides winter at room temperature 1 ° C during the winter and I recommend at least 2x a very light dressing.

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