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Raoulia eximia
Raoulia eximia is a New Zealand alpine cushion plant, endemic to the South Island, that forms dense, woolly, sheep-like mounds on rocky fellfields. It is a slow-growing rock plant that needs cold, dry, free-draining conditions and is rarely grown outside its native mountains.
Raoulia eximia is a species of plant in the family Asteraceae. It was first formally described in 1864 by Joseph Dalton Hooker. It is endemic to New Zealand. The plant is commonly known by its Māori name tutāhuna and as the true vegetable sheep, suggesting its appearance at a distance resembling a sheep.
About 93 percent of the alpine plants are just found at New Zealand Biological Region. New Zealand has only a few alpine genera among all the genera of alpines and they are usually the less notable members, except for Raoulia.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Raoulia eximia 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.
