Family | PRIMULACEAE |
Genus species | Androsace delavayi Franch. |
Bibliography | J. Bot. (Morot) 9: 456 (1895) |
Native Range | sc. China to Nepal and n. Myanmar |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocks and scree |
Altitude | 3000-5300m |
Description | leaves sessile, grey-green, obovate, 2-4mm, glabrous, obtuse, flowers 1-4, sepals ovate-oblong, ciliate, hirsute, corolla lobes broadly obovate, undistinctly emarginate |
Size | 1-3cm |
Color | pink, white |
Bloom | spring, early summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 3-12 months, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Primula delavayi (Franch.) K.K.Khanna & An.Kumar Primula przewalskii Derganc |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHT Tibet) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya, NEP Nepal) 41 Indo-China (MYA Myanmar) |