Rock garden and landscape design plant

Stephania sp.
"Mountain Turtle"
"Rock Plant"

A new landscape architecture and interior design plant.

'Mountain turtle' the local people in Xishuangbanna call this succulent tuber as its tree like bark resembles the structure of a turtle shell.

This cute "turtle" will grow a wonderful vine that will stretch through tree tops and cover houses with beautiful heart shaped leaves. Of course, also the "turtle" will grow as you can see in the pictures below.

Stephania can reach treelike age and needs to be given a rest during winters: simply put it in a dark corner of your home and forget it until spring time when the vine will regrow from the tuber. If you live a bit further South where you may have reasonably short periods of frost, you can leave the turtle in your garden.

In a warm and sunny home, the "rock plant" will not hibernate and continues its growth on a lighted windows, in a lobby, or in a winter garden. Hence, it is an ideal indoor plant for interior design of entrance halls in hotels, exhibition and art centers, interior stone and rock garden, and garden design in countries without strong frost periods.

Some people in old Chinese gardens like to keep the plant in a special ceramic pot and treat it like a bonsay tree.

In Chinese medicine the dried tuber is used to make a tea to cure all sorts of stomach problems.

after 2 years Stephania reaches this size:

and this is the garden rock's size after about 50 years:

these giant "stones" have reached about 100 years.

Leaves of Stephania used in tropical garden landscaping to gently cover a pile of stones. The plant, as one of the "stones", can hardly be distinguished from the rocks.

we are shipping tubers during the plant's winter hibernation stage,
and
Stephania seeds are available right now!

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Stephania can reach treelike age and needs to be given a rest during winters: simply put it in a dark corner of your home and forget it until spring time when the vine will regrow from the tuber. If you live a bit further South where you may have reasonably short periods of frost, you can leave the turtle in your garden. In a warm and sunny home, the "rock plant" will not hibernate and continues its growth on a lighted windows, in a lobby, or in a winter garden. Hence, it is an ideal indoor plant for interior design of entrance halls in hotels, exhibition and art centers, interior stone and rock garden, and garden design in countries without strong frost periods. Some people in old Chinese gardens like to keep the plant in a special ceramic pot and treat it like a bonsay tree. In Chinese medicine the dried tuber is used to make a tea to cure all sorts of stomach problems. after 2 years Stephania reaches this size: and this is the garden rock's size after about 50 years: these giant "stones" have reached about 100 years. Leaves of Stephania used in tropical garden landscaping to gently cover a pile of stones. The plant, as one of the "stones", can hardly be distinguished from the rocks. we are shipping tubers during the plant's winter hibernation stage, and Stephania seeds are available right now! home \| e-mail us \| ask professional expertise Biodiversity protection, sustainable crop production, and fair trade in China and Asia's Mekong Region tropical rain forest flowers, exotic rare plants and herbs, products for gardening, horticulture, landscaping, health, hobby, and on wholesale shop in our stores and contribute to biodiversity protection and fair trade go to: Species list \| Exotic plants shop \| Tropical crops \| Books \| Puer tea \| Health & aroma \| Herbal medicine \| Heat treatment rent a rainforest \| contract grow with us \| become a partner \| wholesale HOME CULTURE spirituality : design : water : fashion ANIMALS amphibia : reptilia : butterflies : panda : takin TRAVEL ecotourism : Xishuangbanna : Shangrila : Yunnan : Mekong KNOWLEDGE books : Buddhist flowers : consulting : science of ecology : medicine PLANTS & SEEDS bananas : ginger : herbs : orchids : trees : succulents : lianas : sacred trees ART Gabrielle's traditional motive Chinese jewelry : Wu Jialin's black and white photography ECOSYSTEMS rain forests : river banks of the Mekong : pools : sacred forests : sinter terraces : chili growing CHINESE MEDICINE AIDS/HIV : asthma : breast cyst : herpes : hepatitis : cancer : diabetes : health tea : malaria : Puer tea : flu WHOLESALE NatureProducts.Net is the Thai internet portal for biodiversity products designed to protect endangered species in cooperation with local ethnic communities a project of the TianZi BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China © 2000 - today		TIAN Zi product list and online store Your ecologically friendly production of ornamentals: proudly traceable! 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