Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Dracophyllum prostratum Kirk |
Bibliography | Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 13: 384 (1881) |
Native Range | New Zealand |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Description | leaves 7-9mm long, narrowly to broadly subulate, obtuse, flowers solitary, 4mm across and long, cylindrical, lobes spreading |
Size | 5-10cm |
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) |