Description
A charming plant and one of the slenderest in the genus with erect or flopping, 20-30 cm branching stems with tiny, lobed, silver leaves and large white flowers with orange-yellow centres.
A true alpine, absolutely temperature-hardy but we find this sensitive to both bad drainage and excess water in winter. It gives the impression of being temperamental unless you get the conditions correct. Do that by keeping it on the dry side, in a well-drained, loam-based compost, and it becomes an easy plant though our seedling mortality learning this, was high.
It comes from tiny tubers and flowers when these are just 1 cm in diameter. So these are small (red) tubers and they have already flowered but please be prepared for their size. They are naturally small in the way that Yorkshire terriers are small and you just don’t get big ones!
Raised from Chilean seed, found at 2,200 m around Lagunillas, Metro region, on steep, open rocky slopes.
