Family | PLUMBAGINACEAE |
Genus species | Limonium kraussianum (Buchinger ex Krauss) Kuntze |
Synonyms | Statice kraussiana Buchinger ex Krauss |
Habitat | sands and rocks |
Altitude | 30-170m |
Description | leaves crowded, rigid, linear-subulate, acerose, adaxially flat, 12mm long, spikelets 2-flowered, bracts coriaceous, calyx narrowly infundibuliform, petals oblanceolate, 8mm |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | blue |
Bloom | late spring, summer |
Ca | |
Type | shrub |
Cultivation | open places with poor, moist, sandy soil alpine house, sandy moist soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 16-21°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Africa
Southern Africa (Cape Provinces) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | PLUMBAGINACEAE
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