Family | CARYOPHYLLACEAE |
Genus species | Acanthophyllum sarawschanicum Golenkin |
Bibliography | Trudy Imp. S.-Peterburgsk. Bot. Sada 13: 85 (1893) |
Native Range | Central Asia (Pamir Mts) |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 1200-1500m |
Description | minutely strigose, densely erinaceous, leaves patent, aristate, adaxially flat, abaxially convex, flowers in long pedunculated spherical cluster, calyx short, petals ovate |
Size | 20-35cm |
Color | lilac |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (TZK Tadzhikistan) |