Rhubarbe Russian Giant

Cette rhubarbe est un type inhabituel, à croissance rapide, extrêmement vigoureuse. Le feuillage peut mesurer près de 1 m de diamètre. Il pousse incroyablement vite à partir de semences et peut être cueilli 6 mois après le semis. Les feuilles sont pubescentes au printemps. Ne convient pas à la culture en pot une fois établi. Elle monte rarement, voire jamais, en graines.

Couleur pétiole : Rouge

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This rhubarb is an unusual, large growing, winter dormant, type. Extremely vigorous, picks easily, and is good eating. Grows incredibly fast from seed and can be picked 6 months from sowing. Leaves are pubescent in the spring. Not suitable for growing in pots once established. The Mother plants were found growing in an old garden in the Dandenong Ranges, Victoria, Australia. In the 1920s-1930s the Dandenong Ranges was the home to many notable gardens and world renowned, famous and wealthy plant collectors. I have seen the same, or similar, type of Rheum growing in Russian Villages around the White Sea area. The garden owners had no idea of the English name of this plant. In cultivation it seldom, if ever goes to seed, hence its high price. Only sow in spring as it is winter dormant. Don't pick the last stalks in autumn (fall) to enable it to put some energy back into the roots to get it through the winter. I think it is a specie, but I can't find anything like it in my heavily researched list of Rheum (rhubarb) species of the world. It is the most unusual commercial rhubarb I have ever seen, and for convenience sake, I have called it...Russian Giant.
Source : French Harvest Website, 2024

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