Family | PRIMULACEAE |
Genus species | Androsace zambalensis (Petitm.) Hand.-Mazz. sect. Chamaejasme |
Bibliography | Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 15: 283 (1927) |
Native Range | sc. China to Nepal |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland and scree |
Altitude | 3600-5600m |
Description | rosette spherical, leaves narrowly ligulate to oblanceolate, 5-6mm, densely white hirsute, long petiolate, flowers 2-5 in umbel, corolla with red eye, 4-8mm, lobes broadly ovate |
Size | 1-2cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, semi-shade |
Propagation | seed in winter, germ. 3-12 months, 10-16°C cuttings in late summer |
Synonyms | Androsace chamaejasme var. tibetica R.Knuth Androsace villosa var. zambalensis Petitm. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHT Tibet) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (EHM East Himalaya, NEP Nepal) |