Family | SCROPHULARIACEAE |
Genus species | Diascia megathura Hilliard & B.L.Burtt trib. Hemimerideae |
Bibliography | Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 41: 313 (1983) |
Native Range | Lesotho to KwaZulu-Natal |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | grassland and scree |
Altitude | 1800-2400m |
Description | leaves broadly ovate, shallowly dentate, to 4cm long, thick, dark green, flowers over 2cm across in raceme |
Size | 20-45cm |
Color | rich pink |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, sunny site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 18-21°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 2 Africa 27 Southern Africa (LES Lesotho, NAT KwaZulu-Natal) |