Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Acrothamnus colensoi (Hook.f.) Quinn |
Bibliography | Austral. Syst. Bot. 18: 452 (2005) |
Native Range | New Zealand |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | grassland and rocks |
Description | leaves verticillate, linear, 1cm, adaxially silver grey, abaxially white, with three parallel, blue-grey lines, flowers in terminal umbel, fragrant, fruit rose or white |
Size | 20-25cm |
Color | creamy |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | - |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed when ripe or in spring cuttings in late summer; layering in spring and fall |
Synonyms | Cyathodes colensoi (Hook.f.) Hook.f. Leucopogon colensoi Hook.f. |
Territory | 5 Australasia 51 New Zealand (NZN New Zealand North, NZS New Zealand South) |