Scientific Name: Saxifraga stolonifera
Common Name: strawberry begonia, mother of thousands
Family Name: Saxifragaceae
Origin: S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 7: (-18 to -12 °C)
Plant Type: Indoor foliage plant
Mature Size: 0.2 - 0.4m x 0.3 - 0.6m (height x width)
Habit: Pendulous
Form: Creeping / Mat-like
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Container planting, Hanging basket, Indoor plant, Woodland margin
Exposure: Part sun/part shade, Filtered shade
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Spiraled, Basal, Soft flexible, Tomentose, Orbicular, Reniform, Dentate
Flowers: Cyme, White, Jul-Aug-Sep
Fruit: Capsule, Brown
Key ID Features:
Stolons long and thin; leaves basal, rounded, to 10cm wide and rising about 20cm tall, dark green with silver veining on top and pink-red undersides; florets bilaterally symmetrical - two large lower petals and 3 smaller upper petals, on panicle-;ike cymes well above foliage.