Lewisia cotyledon 'Bright Eyes'
Portulacaceae
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Habitat:
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sunny rock crevices
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Flowering:
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late spring to early summer
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Size:
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30
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30
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Soil:
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gritty, well drained
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Lewisia cotyledon `Bright Eyes`
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Price
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£3.00
(9 cm pot)
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Order code:
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L2K-9
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This well-known species exists in many varieties, some with rather lurid colours. All have rosettes of fleshy leaves, and can in time form large mounds, from which many stems emerge, each with many flowers. They are best grown in a position where water cannot reside in the rosettes in winter.
Lewisia cotyledon 'Bright Eyes' is a strain with rather brightly coloured flowers, over rosettes of glossy green leaves. Vigorous.
Other related plants:
Excellent (probably tetraploid) cotyledon/longipetala hybrid with white flowers.
Unique strain of four-way hybrids with yellow-orange flowers.
Cultivated strain retaining normal wild colour, pale pink with deep pink stripe.
Cultivated strain from plants with double flowers; usually come true.
A selected strain with unusual violet flowers.