Common name: Navelwort, Pennywort
Scientific name: Umbilicus rupestris 臍景天, 葡萄臍, 玉盃
Genus: Umbilicus 臍景天屬*
Family: Crassulaceae 景天科, stonecrop or orpine family
Remarks*:
Origin: native
Date: 15th June
An erect, glabrous, unbranched perennial, can reach up to 40 cm.
Leaves are mostly basal, stalked, circular, peltate and 1.5 - 7 cm across.
The many-flowered spike.
The side view of the flowers and the stipules (the small leaf-like structure at the base of each flower).
The side view of the tubular flower showing the petals, the green sepals, the pedicel and the stipule.
The flowers, enlarged below to see the details.
5 petals, 10 stamens arising from the inside of the petals (each with a very small filament with yellow anthers) and 5 styles (each with a small stigma)
This plant has a red inflorescence. Probably it is a later stage of it so that the flowers and the flower stalks turn red.
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