Family | LINDERNIACEAE |
Genus species | Craterostigma wilmsii Engl. |
Bibliography | Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 26: 122 (1898) |
Native Range | Free State to Transvaal |
Primary Biome | Desert or Dry Shrubland |
Habitat | dry, sandy grassland |
Altitude | 1200-2500m |
Description | basal leaves crowded, obovate or spathulate, rounded, to base tapered, thick, carnose, abaxially pilose, entire, broadly petiolate, flowers 3-15 in raceme |
Size | 7-35cm |
Color | pinkish white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | dry, sunny site with a poor, sandy soil alpine house, sandy soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 18-21°C division in spring; cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 2 Africa 27 Southern Africa (OFS Free State, TVL Northern Provinces) |