Family | VIOLACEAE |
Genus species | Viola kitamiana Nakai |
Bibliography | Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 42: 564 (1928) |
Native Range | Japan (Hokkaido) |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | scree |
Description | leaves petiolate, thick, shiny, orbiculate-reniform, 17-25mm, obtuse, deeply cordate, crenate-serrate, flowers 2cm across, with yellow centre, sepals oblong-lanceolate |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | gravelly, humous, moist, sunny site alpine house, moist, humous, gravelly soil, sun |
Propagation | seed in winter, barely covered, germ. 1-3 months, 13-16°C division after flowering and in fall |
Synonyms | Viola crassa var. kitamiana (Nakai) F.Maek. & Toyok. |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan) |