Family | BRASSICACEAE |
Genus species | Aethionema gileadense Post |
Bibliography | J. Linn. Soc., Bot. 24: 421 (1888) |
Native Range | Syria to Jordan |
Primary Biome | Subtropical |
Habitat | shady rocks |
Description | glabrous, basal leaves petiolate, obovate, sinuate, stem leaves linear, acute, flowers in elongate raceme, silicles obovate-orbiculate, basally truncate, apically emarginate |
Size | 15-25cm |
Color | white, rose |
Bloom | spring |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | shady, humous, rock crevices alpine house, humous, gravelly soil, shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (LBS Lebanon-Syria, PAL Palestine) |