| Description | Strawberry Begonia (Saxifraga stolonifera) A relatively easy plant to grow. It produces many strawberry-like runners from the mother plant. Each runner will produce a small plantlet. Grows best in bright to moderate conditions light. It isn't a strawberry or Begonia. |
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| Plant Type | Indoor Foliage, Perennial Tender, Site author's observations |
| Hardiness Zone | 6 |
| Sunlight | bright-moderate, no direct |
| Moisture | evenly moist |
| Growing Media | average house |
| Temperature | average house to cool |
| Flowers | small flowers, upright stalks |
| Leaves | reddish green, silver veins, purple underside |
| Stems | stolons |
| Dimensions | With constant division it can be kept in smaller pots or let to fill out larger ones. I have had them easily fill out 10-12" pots. |
| Maintenance | division to control size and rejuvenate |
| Propagation | Rooting of the plantlets is one of the main ways to increase this plant. Either detach a large plantlet and place on some rooting media or leave the plantlet attached to the mother plant and place it on the surface of some media in another pot and it will quickly root. The plant is very shallow rooted, pulling off clumps (division) is rather easy. |
| Native Site | Japan and China |
| Misc Facts | AKA: Mother-of-Thousands, Strawberry Begonia, Strawberry Geranium |
| Author's Notes | Grew 100's of these plants at the high school greenhouse where I taught Horticulture. East to grow and propagate. |
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