Artemisia (Asteraceae) NMWJ14559

somai v. batakensis 'Crûg Cracker'

Finally managed to spot some seed on this species that we have seen many times during various expeditions to Taiwan since 1992. A wonderful small species forming tidy mounds of very white-silvery deeply lobed aromatic foliage in the open ground for us, but only 5-10 cm tall in the position we found it growing on vertical faces in shade. Somewhat taller for us in cultivation at 30-40 cm, remaining decidedly evergreen to date in full sun. From our joint expedition with The Taiwan National Museum of Natural Science in 2015. Restrictions to commercialising apply.