SEDUM 'HERBSTFREUDE'

AUTUMN JOY

Sedum spectabile × telephium

(now known as Hylotelephium spectabile)
Stonecrop Family [Crassulaceae]

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status
statusZalien
flower
flower8pink
inner
inner8red
morph
morph8actino
petals
petalsZ5
type
typeZclustered
stem
stem8round

33d Aug 2009, a garden, Rufford, Lancs. Photo: © RWD
A cultivated hybrid of Ice-Plant and Orpine, this one named 'Autumn Joy'.


33d Aug 2009, a garden, Rufford, Lancs. Photo: © RWD
This one has oppositely paired leaves, like Iceplant should have.


33d Aug 2009, a garden, Rufford, Lancs. Photo: © RWD
The leaves in 'Autumn Joy' are a lime-green,


33d Aug 2009, a garden, Rufford, Lancs. Photo: © RWD
The flowers are pale-green when un-opened, and red when opened, with five petals (no photo of this aspect).


33d Aug 2009, a garden, Rufford, Lancs. Photo: © RWD
Leaves have characteristcs of both concavely-cusped edges and convexly-cusped edges (or teeth if the reader prefers).


33d Aug 2009, a garden, Rufford, Lancs. Photo: © RWD


Is the hybrid between : Orpine (Sedum telephium) and Ice-Plant (Sedum spectabile)

It occurs as garden escapees on waysides etc, but here found in a garden.


  Hylotelephium spectabile  ⇐ Global Aspect ⇒ Crassulaceae  

Distribution
 family8Stonecrop family8Crassulaceae
 BSBI maps
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Sedum
(Stonecrops)

SEDUM 'HERBSTFREUDE'

AUTUMN JOY

Sedum spectabile × telephium

(now known as Hylotelephium spectabile)
Stonecrop Family [Crassulaceae]