Sinningia leucotricha (Brazilian Edelweiss)
Sinningia leucotricha (Brazilian Edelweiss) with fuzzy silver leaves growing from a round thick woody caudex
Botanical names: Sinningia leucotricha, Rechsteineria leucotricha
Common name: Brazilian Edelweiss
Family: Gesneriaceae
Origin: Brazil
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Sinningia leucotricha is an unusual and attractive, long lived, tuberous perennial with a large rounded tuber that can reach a foot (30 cm) across on older plants and from which emerges a few short stems, holding 2 or 3 opposite pairs of small, fuzzy, silver leaves. Sinningia leucotricha has the most beautiful foliage of any sinningia.The showy, salmon colored flowers begin to bloom just above the foliage in spring to early summer
Similar plants: Sinningia leucotricha (Brazilian Edelweiss)
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