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Accession Data:

Tiarella polyphylla D. Don

  • Common Name: Foamflower
  • Family: Saxifragaceae Juss.

  • Country of Origin: Asia
  • Habitat: Moist forests, shady wet places; 1000-3800 m.

  • Description: Herbs 20-45 cm tall. Rhizomes creeping, dark brown, 3-6 mm in diam. Stems simple, densely glandular hairy. Leaves mostly basal; cauline leaves few. Basal leaves with petiole 2-12 cm, densely glandular hairy, base sheathlike; leaf blade cordate, 2-8 × 2.5-10 cm, palmately 3-5-lobed, both surfaces glandular hairy, base cordate, margin irregularly dentate, apex acute. Cauline leaves 2 or 3, similar to basal leaves but smaller and petiole shorter. Raceme 8-25 cm, densely glandular hairy. Flowers whitish, small; pedicel ca. 1 cm, glandular hairy. Sepals erect, ovate, ca. 1.5 × 0.8 mm, abaxially and marginally shortly glandular hairy, 3- to many veined, apex subacuminate. Petals absent. Stamens ca. 2.5 mm; filaments subulate. Carpels unequal, connate proximally; ovary shallowly subsuperior, appearing almost completely superior. Capsule 7-12 mm. Seeds few, dark brown, ellipsoid, ca. 1 mm. Fl. Apr-Nov. 2n = 14.3
  • USDA Zone: 5-7

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201900017
  • Source: Bonn 2019 - NP-0-BONN-35913
  • Provenance:
    IPEN# NP-0-BONN-35913
    Nepal, Between Simbua Khola & Omje Khola, Shady Abies / Tsuga forest,
    3000 m, 882, 22.09.1989
    
  • Accession Date: 06-12-2019
  • Bench: 2305 - Temperate Asia
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 4 confirmed on 07-01-2024

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: core eudicots
  • Order: Saxifragales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Saxifragaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe:
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Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020

References (internal):

  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: China South-Central / China North-Central / China Southeast / Japan / Taiwan / East Himalaya / India / Nepal / Myanmar

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, 05 February, 2019.
  2. Tiarella polyphylla at ARS-GRIN Taxonomy. Last accessed on Tuesday, 05 February, 2019.
  3. Flora of China. Last accessed on Wednesday, 12 June, 2019.

data regenerated on Sat, 05 Oct 2024 12:02:16 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

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Current Accessions in the Saxifragaceae

  • Bergenia crassifolia
  • Saxifraga stolonifera
  • Tiarella polyphylla
  • Tolmiea menziesii W/C
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