Family | APIACEAE |
Genus species | Aciphylla scott-thomsonii Cockayne & Allan |
Bibliography | Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 57: 48 (1927) |
Native Range | New Zealand |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Description | leaves to 1.5m long, glaucous, bipinnate, margins obscurely crenate, segments abruptly tapered to hard, pointed tip, stems rigid, sulcate, umbels large |
Size | 1-4m |
Color | whitish |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring |
Synonyms | Aciphylla colensoi var. maxima Kirk |
Territory | 5 Australasia 51 New Zealand (NZS New Zealand South) |