Family | PRIMULACEAE |
Genus species | Dionysia freitagii Wendelbo |
Bibliography | Bot. Not. 123: 303 (1970) |
Native Range | n. Afghanistan |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | shady rocks |
Altitude | 900-1700m |
Description | leaves elliptic, 5-8cm, viscid glandular, 5-8mm long, efarinose, dark green, entire, flowers solitary, sessile, 8-12mm across, tube 13-16mm long, eye white |
Size | 1-5cm |
Color | purplish violet |
Bloom | early spring |
Ca | + |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | shady, humous, rock crevices alpine house, humous, gravelly soil, shade |
Propagation | seed when ripe cuttings of rosettes in late spring |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 34 Western Asia (AFG Afghanistan) |