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Sedum populifolium
The plant likes full sun. It is suitable for a rock garden or portable containers.
In a pot, water after the substrate has dried out. When placing in a rock garden, water at your own discretion.
The plant is hardy, withstanding temperatures down to -34.4 °C.
Epiteton comes from the Latin Populus - tree poplar. The leaves are similar in shape, but like the poplar, they fall off in winter.
Sedum populifolium, from the Latin word Populus - poplar, is technically named Hylotelephium populifolium. It is native to Russia, where it grows in the Altai, Krasnoyarsk and Tuva regions of southern Siberia.
The green leaves have papery margins with irregularly sized teeth. It is not only its heart-shaped form that is strikingly reminiscent of the poplar leaf. The leaves are up to 4 cm long and about 2,5 cm wide. They are connected to the dark brown stem by a slender petiole. The leaves fall off in winter and the succulent reappears in spring. It grows into a succulent shrub. The stems grow up to 40 cm high and branch at the bottom.
In summer it blooms in dense terminal racemes of white to pinkish flowers. The star-shaped flowers are fragrant and let the plant brighten up its appearance.
These plants are frost-hardy, requiring only minimal attention and care. They are suitable for the rock garden or in portable containers, and if given enough light and permeable soil, can handle living in very inhospitable conditions. Succulents should be repotted every once in a while to give them enough nutrients for their growth. Water only during prolonged droughts and usually do not water in winter. Over winter, the succulent's leaves, like those of its namesake, the poplar, fall off. They regrow with the beginning of spring.