Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Helichrysum asperum (Thunb.) Hilliard & B.L.Burtt trib. Gnaphalieae |
Synonyms | Stoebe aspera Thunb. |
Helichrysum ericifolium (Salisb.) Less. | |
Helichrysum laxum E.Mey. ex DC. | |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 120-1200m |
Description | branchlets glabrous or lanate, leaves linear, sessile, patent, obtuse, margins revolute, lanate or glabrous, capitula sessile, crowded of 3-6, at apex of branchlets |
Size | 15-40cm |
Color | white, reddish |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | shrub |
Cultivation | sunny, dry, rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 13-20°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory |
Africa
South Tropical Africa (Zimbabwe ) Southern Africa (Cape Provinces) |
Bibliography | Plants of the World online powo.science.kew.org International Plant Names Index www.ipni.org |
Comments | ASTERACEAE
asperum albidulum (DC.) Hilliard, Fl. S. Africa [L.E.W.Codd & al., eds.] 33(7.2): 127 (1983)
asperum appressifolium (Moeser) Hilliard, ibid.
asperum comosum (Sch.Bip.) Hilliard, ibid.
asperum glabrum Hilliard, ibid.
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