Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Vaccinium modestum W.W.Sm. |
Bibliography | Notes Roy. Bot. Gard. Edinburgh 8: 210 (1914) |
Native Range | China to Assam and n. Myanmar |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Altitude | 2500-4300m |
Description | leaves at apex of branchlets, ovate to obovate, shiny green, abaxially bluish, flowers solitary, axillary, flattened, berry spherical, bluish violet |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | dark pink |
Bloom | early summer |
Ca | - |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, uncovered, germ. 3-6 months, 13-18°C cuttings in late summer and fall; layering in spring |
Territory | 3 Asia-Temperate 36 China (CHC China South-Central, CHT Tibet) 4 Asia-Tropical 40 Indian Subcontinent (ASS Assam, EHM East Himalaya) 41 Indo-China (MYA Myanmar) |