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Acronema alpinum is a tuberous geophyte in the carrot family, native to Tibet, that survives harsh conditions by storing water and nutrients in an underground tuber. It is a wild alpine species rarely grown in gardens, so keep it cool, dry in summer and free-draining.
Acronema alpinum is a species of Acronema in the family Apiaceae. It is a tuberous geophyte, meaning it utilizes an underground tuber to store water and nutrients to survive harsh environmental conditions. This species native range is Tibet.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Acronema alpinum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
