Family | AMARANTHACEAE |
Genus species | Arthrophytum korovinii Botsch. |
Bibliography | Bot. Mater. Gerb. Inst. Bot. Zool. Akad. Nauk Uzbeksk. S.S.R. 11: 6 (1948) |
Native Range | Kazakhstan to n. Xinjiang |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Description | branchlets silver grey, leaves patent, clavate, 3-5mm, smooth, obtuse or acute, bracts suborbiculate, perianth subspherical, ca. 2mm, segments broadly elliptic |
Size | 10-20cm |
Color | |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (KAZ Kazakhstan) 36 China (CHX Xinjiang) |