Sedum rupestre Angelina

👨‍🌾GARDENING TIPS👨‍🌾: 

• • Avoid planting this one in acidic soils – she won’t like it
  • Perfect for rock gardens, alpine gardens, container planting, hanging baskets, or mixed succulent displays.
  • Combines beautifully with other Sedum species, Sempervivum, and Crassula for textured succulent arrangements.
  • Minimal maintenance is required, with occasional pruning to maintain shape and remove spent flower stems

Learn more about caring for your Sedum:

• • FR: Sedum, une succulente résistante

  • ENG: Sempergreen, caring for your Sedum

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The Tales & The Botany: Sedum rupestre ‘Angelina’ 

The plant can be seen on ‘green roofs’ or ‘green wall’ systems in Korea where plants are incorporated into the structure of the building, providing habitats for wildlife and innovative insulation solution for humans.

🌸 Floral Morphology: Sedum rupestre Angelina

Sedum rupestre Angelina a low-growing, mat-forming succulent in the Crassulaceae family, with slender, needle-like, bright yellow green leaves arranged along trailing stems.

In summer, the plant produces small, star-shaped, yellow flowers clustered in loose inflorescences (cymes).

Flowers are actinomorphic and hermaphroditic, with five sepals and five petals, and a superior ovary.

The fleshy, water-storing leaves give the plant its resilience under drought and help maintain turgor during dry periods.

🧬 Reproductive Biology

Pollination is primarily entomophilous, attracting bees and other small insects. Sedum propagates easily through leaf cuttings or stem offsets, allowing rapid vegetative reproduction.

Seeds are produced in small capsules but vegetative propagation is far more common in cultivation.

The plant exhibits Crassulacean Acid Metabolism (CAM), opening stomata at night to conserve water while allowing photosynthesis during the day.

🦋 Ecology & Cultivation

Sedum thrive in well-drained, sandy or rocky soils under full sun, although it tolerates light shade.

It is drought-tolerant, frost-sensitive, and well-suited for rock gardens, containers, or as ground cover.

The plant is low-maintenance, requires minimal watering, and benefits from occasional pruning to remove damaged or overgrown stems.

Its vibrant leaf colors and compact growth habit make it popular for ornamental gardening and succulent collections.

Other names:

Orange Stonecrop

Orpin Russe

Orpin Jaune

Origin:

Kamtchatka, Siberia