Family | ROSACEAE |
Genus species | Acaena tenera Albov |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 100-1000m |
Description | pale green, glabrous, leaves long petiolate, in outline narrowly oblong, leaflets 9-13, ovate-orbiculate, pectinate-incised, heads solitary, minute, spherical |
Size | 7-10cm |
Color | |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | carpet |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 3-12 months, 10-16°C division in early spring and fall; cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Southern America
Southern South America (Argentina South , Chile South) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | ROSACEAE
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