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Bergenia
27 July 2025
Bergenia crassifolia
92% certain
- Family
- Saxifragaceae
- Origin
- Siberia and Central Asia
- Bloom season
- Early spring
- Colors
- pink, magenta, white
- Habitat
- Shady banks, cottage edges, and cold gardens
- Symbolism
- Endurance, and a spring that arrives anyway
A cluster of five-petaled pink florets on a red stalk, held above thick, cabbage-like evergreen leaves.
Care. Plant in part shade with ordinary soil; old leaves bronze in a hard frost and can be cut in spring.
A note. Gardeners call it pigsqueak because a rubbed leaf makes a small, rubbery squeal.
Or perhaps
- Pentas — 5%
- Primrose — 4%
Notes on the photograph
Copied from the marks left by the camera.
- Captured
- Jul 27, 2025, 1:27 PM
- Camera
- Apple iPhone 14 Pro Max
- Lens
- iPhone 14 Pro Max back triple camera 2.22mm f/2.2
- Focal length
- 2.2mm
- Aperture
- f/2.2
- Shutter
- 1/293s
- ISO
- 40
- Dimensions
- 4032 × 3024
Where it was found
The place is taken from the photograph's own memory, if any.
4.6749° N, 74.0487° W
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