Bergenia stracheyi Kew (1983-5014)

A very fine form collected from the valley below the Kolahoi Glacier in Kashmir during the Kashmir Botanical Expedition of 1983. It forms neat rosettes of rounded, obovate, leathery, dark green leaves with a smooth, glabrous leaf surface and a prominent red margin fringed with uniform, white hairs from the base to the apex. In autumn, the leaves turn yellow then red-purple. Very attractive and unusual for its rounded leaves that in other forms are more commonly cuneate. It can be found growing in the rock garden at RBG Kew.