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Cynoglossum troodii (Troodos hound's tongue) is a small, hairy perennial herb from the Troodos mountains of Cyprus, growing on serpentine soils in pine and juniper forest. It is a wild, rare species rather than a garden plant, so care is mostly general knowledge for a cool-climate rock-garden or alpine-style herb.
Cynoglossum troodi, Troodos hound's tongue is an erect, perennial herb, 10–25 cm high, with branched stems covered with stiff hairs. Leaves alternate, simple, entire, stalkless, oblong to lanceolate, densely hairy, the basal in tufts, 2-5 x 0.5–1 cm, the upper sparse and smaller. Flowers actinomorphic in cymose inflorescences, very small, corolla brick-red, tubular, 5-lobed. Flowers May–August. Fruit of 4 nutlets with rigid spinules.
In Pinus nigra ssp. pallasiana and Juniperus foetidissima forests on serpentine in Troödos forest at 1500–1950 m altitude.
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