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Enderby Island Gentian

Gentianella concinna

Enderby Island Gentian
Photo: twiddleblat, CC BY 2.0

Enderby Island Gentian is a small, much-branched flowering plant endemic to the subantarctic Auckland Islands of New Zealand, with red or white-and-red flowers. It is rarely grown in gardens, and care needs are based on its cool, wet native habitat.

Family
Gentianaceae (Gentian family)
Grows as
Perennial
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep the soil consistently moist but never waterlogged, and avoid letting it dry out.
Soil
Moist, humus-rich, well-drained soil or a gritty peat-based mix.
Temperature
5–18 °C; protect from heat above about 25 °C and hard frost below -5 °C.
How easy
Hard
Native range
Antipodean Is. (Auckland I.)
Climate
temperate

About

Gentianella concinna is a flowering plant species, endemic to the Auckland Islands of New Zealand.

Other Gentianella plants

Chionogentias diemensis · Gentianella alborosea · Autumn dwarf gentian · Gentianella androsacea · Early Gentian · Gentianella antarctica · Golden dwarfgentian · Barrington Snow Gentian · Common New Zealand Gentian · Field gentian · Auckland Island Gentian · Gentianella cernua

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Gentianella concinna 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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