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Saxifraga androsacea Description : close up of flowers, taken during Saxifrage Society field trip 2006 Class : wild Location : near Ankogel, Hohe Tauern, Kärnten, Austria Photographer : Paul Kennett Click here to view this as a full page Copyright of this image remains with the photographer shown Saxifraga androsacea : one of 1500+ images in SaxBase:

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Images and functionality are being added as time allows. There are over 4000 taxa listed, and more than 1000 images associated with them. Thanks are due to all our contributors, who have helped make this possible.

You can navigate up and down through the accepted ranks within Saxifraga, and from there "explore Saxifrage space" by walking the relationships between species and crosses, cultivars and parents, and taxa and synonyms. 

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