Family | ASTERACEAE |
Genus species | Celmisia durietzii Cockayne & Allan trib. Astereae |
Bibliography | Veg. New Zealand, ed. 2: 287 (1928) |
Native Range | New Zealand |
Primary Biome | Subalpine: |
Habitat | grassland |
Description | leaves in rosettes at apex of branchlets, 3-6cm, narrowly obovate, adaxially glabrous, abaxially white sericeous, obtuse, obscurely denticulate, capitula 3-4cm across |
Size | 15-20cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | perennial |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed in spring, barely covered, germ. 1 month, 16-21°C division in spring and early fall; cuttings in late summer |
Territory | 5 Australasia 51 New Zealand (NZS New Zealand South) |