Sedum ×rubrotinctum
ζ*S. × rubrotinctum R. T. Clausen ζ*, jelly bean plant, has occasionally been collected wild on steep banks in Nelson and on the Port Hills, Christchurch, in the vicinity of gardens (Plate 12). It is a very commonly cultivated sp. in rock gardens and on rock walls and banks, and as a pot and patio plant. The readily detached lvs root very easily. A small, glabrous, compact, almost shrubby perennial; stems decumbent, rooting at nodes in lower part and ascending to 15 cm; lvs 1-2 cm long, 4-8 mm thick, terete and broadly cylindric, glossy and usually green towards base and red or reddish brown towards the rounded apex; infl. a corymbose cyme, rather compact; sepals unequal; petals 5-7 mm long, narrowly triangular-lanceolate, yellow; stamens, carpels and styles yellow or yellowish green. The origin of jelly bean plant is obscure; it probably originated in Mexico but is not known wild there. (Presumably a cultivated hybrid, 1988).
