Burro's Tail, Donkey's Tail (Sedum morganianum)

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htop San Antonio, TX(Zone 8b) Sep 29, 2003

Common name: Burro's Tail, Donkey's Tail
Family: Crassulaceae
Genus: Sedum
Species morganianum

Plant Link: http://plantsdatabase.com/go/2543/

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Kim_M (Zone 7a) Jan 19, 2005

Boy! I must say...This sure is a hardy plant. But it's not listed as so. It snowing and 17 degrees...I went where it was planted. Still alive and doing fine. I took some cutings this morning to see if I can root them. Just incase it doesn't come back.

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frogsrus San Diego, CA(Zone 10a) Jan 19, 2005

Beautiful donkey tail. The birds find mine every year and pick off the "hairs" so it never looks so full as yours. I figure as long as they do not denude it, they can have their share.

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htop San Antonio, TX(Zone 8b) Jan 21, 2005

KimGaither, I didn't know that it could withstand such cold temperatures.
frogsrus, mine grew to a nice size and then I think birds began to have a field day with it. too. After that, the squirrels began a massive campaign against it and finally killed it. They dug in the pot, finally knocked the pot from the tree and even destroyed the container. I should have taken cuttings before it was finally destroyed. I read the comments about the allergic reactions some people have to this plant and that it is poisonous. I guess I was lucky because I never seemed to have a problem with handling it (I have severe allergic reactions to a lot of other plants). Maybe the secretions from the plant made the squirrels go bonkers!

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Kim_M (Zone 7a) Jan 21, 2005

A friend of mine gave me some this summer. I showed him your picture yesterday...He says for sure that ours are Donkey's tail..Although there is a slight difference in resemblence. We are deffinitely checking it out. The cuttings I took from under the snow seem to be happy. Maybe it's a different type.

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htop San Antonio, TX(Zone 8b) Jan 21, 2005

I had never left mine in the yard during heavy freezes so I don't know how well it would have done. Maybe the snow kept the temperature at 32 degrees or so and kept the plant from freezing? If you are going to plant it in a hanging basket in order to keep the leaves from dropping and the stems from dying back or breaking right at the edge of the basket, you might want to cover the edge of the basket with something like a piece of split water hose. The stems become very heavy. It needs a dormant period from say the middle of October through March or so during which it needs watered only when the leaves appear to be shriveling a little and it should be fertilized only once a year. I fertilized mine in the spring when its growing season began. I hope your cuttings do well for you.

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