| Botanical Name |
Common name |
Description |
| Rheum australe |
Himalayan rhubarb |
Seven foot (2 meter) long stems have yellow flowers in late
spring-summer. Red stems with large greenish red, heart-shaped leaves. |
| Rheum compactum |
|
Perennial, typical height 50 cm (19 in) Edible parts are
the Leaf stems as a rhubarb substitute. |
| Rheum coreanum |
|
Perennial, The root is laxative and is also considered good
for digestion. |
| Rheum emodi |
|
Rheum officinale and Rheum Emodi
have to some extent been grown also as an ornamental plant, being also quite hardy and
readily propagated. |
| Rheum kialense |
|
A charming, diminutive species. Red-stained crinkled foliage
to 15 inches (38 cm) and airy panicles of tiny greenish-red flowers. Stoloniferous (a stolon is a
horizontal branch from the base of a plant that produces new plants from buds at its tip
or nodes (like a strawberry does), also called a runner), it will form a dense groundcover
over time. |
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