Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Dracophyllum pubescens Cheeseman |
Bibliography | Man. New Zealand Fl.: 426 (1906) |
Native Range | New Zealand |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland and thickets |
Description | branchlets dark russet, leaves crowded at apex of branchlets, coriaceous, glaucous, subglabrous, acute, pungent, flowers 3-5 in spikes at lateral branchlets |
Size | 10-15cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed when ripe or in spring cuttings in late summer; layering in spring and fall |
Territory | 5 Australasia 51 New Zealand (NZS New Zealand South) |