Family | SAXIFRAGACEAE |
Genus species | Tanakaea radicans Franch. & Sav. |
Bibliography | Enum. Pl. Jap. 1: 144 (1873) |
Native Range | sc. China, c. & s. Japan |
Primary Biome | Temperate |
Habitat | shady rocks |
Description | rootstock with trailing shoots, leaves in tufts, carnose, ovate-lanceolate, acute, at base subcordate, dentate, bright green, flowers small in dense panicle |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | creamy |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | - |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | shady, humous, rock crevices alpine house, humous, gravelly soil, shade |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 3-6 months, 16-18°C division in early spring |
Synonyms | Tanakaea omeiensis Nakai Tanakaea omeiensis var. nanchuanensis W.T.Wang |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHC China South-Central) 38 Eastern Asia (JAP Japan) |