battandieri Maire, 1931

= x battandieri  Maire, 1931

Distribution : Of garden origin.

Description (according to IHSP, 2003) :

Perennial herbs with persistent and much-branched thick succulent stems.

Leaves in dense rosettes at the stem tips, linear-oblong, obtuse, with papillae along the margins.

Inflorescences : Flowering branches terminal.

Cytology: 2n = 54.

By and large intermediate between its parents S. multiceps and S. tuberosum, though somewhat closer to S. multiceps.

Photo Ron Evans