Family | BRASSICACEAE |
Genus species | Christolea crassifolia Cambess. |
Synonyms | Christolea afghanica (Rech.f.) Rech.f. |
Christolea incisa O.E.Schulz | |
Christolea pamirica O.E.Schulz | |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 2500-5500m |
Description | stem leaves variable, petiolate, coriaceous, pubescent, dentate or entire, flowers 5-7mm across, 10-25, in raceme, pedicellate, silicles broadly linear to oblong-ovoid |
Size | 15-40cm |
Color | white, rose |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | tuft |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Asia-Temperate
Middle Asia (Tadzhikistan ) Western Asia (Afghanistan ) China (Qinghai , Tibet , Xinjiang ) Asia-Tropical Indian Subcontinent (Nepal , Pakistan , West Himalaya) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | BRASSICACEAE
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