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A pretty and vigorous Sedum with a broad gold marking in the centre of the leaf and pink flowers in summer. It grows well in the sun
and survives the winter here but dies back to the crown and looks a bit ragged by spring. Better under glass for me. Pants of the World online now treats the species as a Hylotelephium and says: "The native range of this variety is Japan (Shikoku: Shōdoshima). It is a semisucculent perennial and grows primarily in the temperate biome." The origin of the cultivar 'Mediovariegatum' is unrecorded as far as I can determine, but there are a few other variegated cultiars that have been selected in Japan. Hooker's description of the species in Curtis's Botanical Magazine says: "A very interesting species of Stonecrop, and very unlike any one known to me, which appears to have been introduced by Messrs. Henderson, Pine-apple Place, from Japan, in 1838, into our gardens, under the name of Sedum Sieboldii, of Sweet; and such a name is in garden catalogues, but I have failed to find any character or description." |
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