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Azorella ameghinoi

Azorella ameghinoi is a small, cushion-forming subshrub from the Patagonian region of southern Chile and Argentina, rarely grown outside botanic collections. It is a cold-climate plant best suited to cool, free-draining conditions, and it is not a common garden or houseplant.

Family
Apiaceae (Carrot family)
Grows as
Shrub
Light
Full sun
Water
Water sparingly and let the soil dry out between waterings; avoid waterlogging.
Soil
Gritty, very well-drained mineral soil or alpine mix.
Temperature
Tolerates cold and wind typical of Patagonia; protect from prolonged heat and humidity, roughly below 25 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
S. Chile to S. Argentina
Climate
temperate

About

Azorella ameghinoi is a species of flowering plant in the genus Azorella found in and southern Argentina and Chile.

Other Azorella plants

Azorella albovaginata · Azorella aretioides · Azorella atacamensis · Yareta · Azorella diapensioides · Wiry Azorella · Azorella fuegiana · Cushion Azorella · Azorella monteroi · Macquarie Island Cabbage · Azorella schizeilema · Cushion Azorella

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Azorella ameghinoi 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.

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