Family | AMARANTHACEAE |
Genus species | Nanophyton botschantzevii U.P.Pratov |
Bibliography | Bot. Zhurn. (Moscow & Leningrad) 60 1161 (1975) |
Native Range | Central Asia |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | rocky slopes |
Altitude | 1600-2000m |
Description | very ramose, leaves to 6mm long, opposite, oblong, at apex with short spine, flowers 2-9 at apex of branchlets |
Size | 10-30cm |
Color | |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | shrub |
Cultivation | sunny rock crevices, protection against winter wet alpine house, poor, drained soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 10-13°C cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 32 Middle Asia (UZB Uzbekistan) |