code: 884
A perfect alpine house or show-winning plant
Family: Brassicaceae or Cruciferae
Common name: CHORISPORA ELEGANS
Plant Classification: Hardy perennial
Minimum Height: 6 cm
Maximum Height: 10 cm
Packet Content(approx.): 6
Relatively large, almost stemless, purple-mauve flowers open above prostrate rosettes of attractive, deeply-incised, frilly-edged leaves. A perfect alpine house or show-winning plant, it is bone-hardy with respect to frost but will appreciate winter cover which it would normally have with snow. This extremely rare plant lives on stony slopes, usually in dry areas, up to 5000 metres, in the highest alpine regions of the Himalayas, where it flowers in June and July in well-drained, moist, sandy, soil, its preferred habitat, either in semi shade of full sun.
Sowing advice:
Seeds can be sown at any time but are best sown in winter or early spring to benefit from a cold spell in the wet compost to break their dormancy. We advise covering seeds very thinly with sand or fine grit to about the depth of the seed size. If the seeds do not come up within 6 to 12 weeks the damp seed tray can be given cold treatment in a fridge for about four weeks. They may still take very many months to appear, so please never discard the pot or tray.
