Family | APIACEAE |
Genus species | Aciphylla dobsonii Hook.f. |
Bibliography | Handb. N. Zeal. Fl. 1: 93 (1864) |
Native Range | New Zealand |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Description | crowds of very rigid, dark olive-green, simple, linear leaves, umbels crowded into head, floral stem rigid, distinctly above leaves |
Size | 15-25cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | rock crevices with favourable water regime, eastern slopes alpine house, poor, drained soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring |
Territory | 5 Australasia 51 New Zealand (NZS New Zealand South) |