Bauera

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Bauera >

If this plant info box on watering; zones; height; etc. is mostly empty you can click on the edit tab and fill in the blanks!

Do you have a description of this genus or plant? Edit this section!

Read about Bauera in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Bauera (H. Gottfr. and Franz Bauer, German professor and painter, respectively). Saxifragaceae. Choice little evergreen shrubs grown in greenhouses. Leaves 3-partod and opposite, looking like a whorl of 6: fls. white to purple, axillary and solitary, but sometimes aggregated at top of the St.; calyx 4-10-divided; petals as many as the calyx-divisions; stamens few to many, borne on a disk: fr. a 2-valved caps., the valves again splitting. — Three species in Austral, and Tasmania, one of which is in cult. These small shrubs make handsome specimen plants for the cool greenhouse, and flower most of the year. especially during the winter and spring months. Baueras are easily propagated from cuttings of half-ripened wood in spring; cut into lengths of about 2 inches, insert in equal parts of finely sifted peat and sharp sand in 3-inch pots, pricking them round the rim of the pot, and cover with a bell- glass in a greenhouse with a temperature from 55° to 60°. Give them a thorough watering at the time of insertion, and they will frequently root without further watering. When the cuttings begin to show signs of growing, they should be potted singly in 2-inch pots in the same mixture as above, and should be kept in a tight case for a few days. After they have gripped the soil, they should be cut back to about an inch above the pot, which will encourage them to branch. Baueras should never be allowed to become pot-bound until the desired size of plant is reached. The plants at all times should be kept in good shape by cutting back the strong shoots. In summer, baueras do better when plunged in a bed of coal-ashes out-of-doors, and strict attention given to watering. A cool greenhouse with a night temperature of 40° to 45° will be ideal all winter. Water occasionally with soft-coal soot mixed in water, a handful to an ordinary watering-pot; water with clean water three times and the soot-water once. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

Cultivation

Do you have cultivation info on this plant? Edit this section!

Propagation

Do you have propagation info on this plant? Edit this section!

Pests and diseases

Do you have pest and disease info on this plant? Edit this section!

Gallery

If you have a photo of this plant, please upload it! Plus, there may be other photos available for you to add.

• 

  photo 1

• 

  photo 2

• 

  photo 3

External links

• w:Bauera. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
• Bauera QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)