Prices:

	Each	20 or more
1.5L Pot	$9.50	$9.00

Details:

Type:	Creeper
Growth Rate:	Medium
Mature Height:	0.1 m
Mature Width:	0.5 m
Site Condition:	Exposed, Frost Tolerant, Heavy Soil, Loamy Soil, Sandy Soil
Sun:	Full Sun
Drainage:	Dry
Frosts:	Hardy
Features:	Drought tolerant. Suitable for bordering or edging and ground cover. Attractive to lizards. Flower colour: Yellow. Foliage colour: Silver. Native. Suitable restoration species.

Raoulia hookeri is a small, mat-forming evergreen perennial with tiny, rosettes of silver, spoon-shaped leaves. Excellent in the rock garden.

The genus Raoulia is named after Étienne Fiacre Louis Raoul (23 July 1815–30 March 1852) who was a French naval surgeon and naturalist. On the ship L’Aube who was in Akaroa in 1840-41. He published a book Choix de plantes de la Nouvelle-Zélande ("Selected plants of New Zealand") in 1846. The genus was named after him by Joseph Hooker.

The Species hookeri is named after Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker (born 1817) a world famous botanist who travelled on the Antarctic expedition of 1839 under the command of Sir James Ross and wrote "Handbook of New Zealand Flora" published in 1864-67 describing many specimens sent to Kew by collectors. He died in 1911 and has a memorial stone at Westminster Abbey London.

Habitat: Dense mat forming plants found covering stone-strewn dry river and stream beds. Found in alpine dry rocky places and screes.

Flowering: Summer [December - January]
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