Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Prionotes cerinthoides (Labill.) R.Br. |
Bibliography | Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. 553 (1810) |
Native Range | Tasmania |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | thickets and woods |
Description | branchlets thin, virgate, leaves crowded, elliptic-oblong, shallowly dentate, dark green, flowers to 25mm, tubular to oblong-ovoid, pendent, often crowded |
Size | 20-30cm |
Color | crimson |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | cold, shady site with a humous, moist soil alpine house, moist, humous soil, shade |
Propagation | seed when ripe or in spring cuttings in late summer; layering in spring and fall |
Synonyms | Epacris cerinthoides Labill. |
Territory | 5 Australasia 50 Australia (TAS Tasmania) |