Family | ERICACEAE |
Genus species | Dracophyllum pronum W.R.B.Oliv. |
Bibliography | Trans. & Proc. New Zealand Inst. 59: 686 (1929) |
Native Range | New Zealand |
Primary Biome | Subalpine |
Habitat | grassland |
Description | branchlets trailing, leaves linear, 7-15mm long, mainly on apex of branchlets, flowers solitary, 4-5mm long, subcampanulate |
Size | 5-10cm |
Color | white |
Bloom | summer |
Ca | |
Type | subshrub |
Cultivation | humous, moist, but in winter drier, semi-shady site alpine house, moist, humous soil, shading in summer |
Propagation | seed when ripe or in spring cuttings in late summer; layering in spring and fall |
Territory | 5 Australasia 51 New Zealand (NZS New Zealand South) |