Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Leptecophylla divaricata (Hook.f.) C.M.Weiller |
Bibliography | Muelleria 12: 207 (1999) |
Native Range | Tasmania |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | thickets and woods |
Description | leaves acicular, acute, ca. 1cm long, flowers to 5mm long, axillary, solitary, pedicellate, fruit spherical, 5-8mm wide, pale red |
Size | 30-60cm |
Color | whitish |
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 | Cyathodes divaricata (Hook.f.) Hook.f. Lissanthe divaricata Hook.f. Styphelia remota Sleumer |
Territory | 5 Australasia 50 Australia (TAS Tasmania) |