Family | EPHEDRACEAE |
Genus species | Ephedra fedtschenkoae Paulsen |
Bibliography | Bot. Tidsskr. 26: 254 (1905) |
Native Range | sw. Siberia to Central Asia and Mongolia |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 1900-3800m |
Description | green branchlets with 2-4 nodes, leaves opposite, pollen cones arranged on branchlets, bracts in 3 pairs, connate, in maturity carnose and red, seed deep brown |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | |
Bloom | early summer |
Ca | |
Type | shrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring layering in spring |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 30 Siberia (ALT Altay, TVA Tuva) 32 Middle Asia (KGZ Kirgizistan, TZK Tadzhikistan, UZB Uzbekistan) 36 China (CHX Xinjiang) 37 Mongolia |