Sinningia leucotricha syn. Rechsteineria leucotricha
Brazilian Edelweiss
Sinningia leucotricha is a tuberous perennial with silvery white foliage and large tubular red-orange flowers and is native to Brazil. With age, the tuber can eventually reach sizes of approximately 30cm. It is often grown like a succulent or caudiciform, and will tolerate periods of drought. It is herbaceous and will shed old leaves before entering a period of dormancy, and then new foliage appears in the spring.
Contributed by @diannezchilds
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Partial shade
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Occasional watering
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Not Frost hardy
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Free draining and fertile
Common name
Brazilian Edelweiss
Latin name
Sinningia leucotricha syn. Rechsteineria leucotricha
type
Tuber
family
Gesneriaceae
ph
6.0 - 7.5 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Partial shade
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Frost
Not Frost hardy
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Soil
Free draining and fertile
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Water
Occasional watering
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When the plant will bloom
full grown dimensions
0.25 M
0.30 M
Sinningia leucotricha syn. Rechsteineria leucotricha
Sinningia leucotricha is a tuberous perennial with silvery white foliage and large tubular red-orange flowers and is native to Brazil. With age, the tuber can eventually reach sizes of approximately 30cm. It is often grown like a succulent or caudiciform, and will tolerate periods of drought. It is herbaceous and will shed old leaves before entering a period of dormancy, and then new foliage appears in the spring.
Flowering Season (Spring/Summer)
From Early Spring TO Early Summer
Sinningia leucotricha flowers after new foliage appears in early spring, to early summer. It may, under ideal conditions, flower at other times of the year if it doesn't go dormant.
Planting Season (Spring)
From Early Spring TO Mid Spring
Tubers should be planted in a good well drained potting mix ideally in a peat-grit mix.Avoid too large a pot, and plant the tubers so that upper part is exposed above the potting mix. Pot size should be just big enough so that there is 2-3cm gap around the tuber, and no bigger. Repotting can be done in the spring as new foliage emerges, and if the tuber has grown you can increase the size of the pot a little. Water sparingly at first so that the potting mix is just moist (not wet) and only water when it dries out.
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