Raoulia

Vegetable sheep
Raoulia glabra
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Asterids
Order: Asterales
Family: Asteraceae
Tribe: Gnaphalieae[1]
Genus: Raoulia
Hook.f. ex Raoul
Type species
Raoulia australis
Hook.f. ex Raoul
Synonyms[1]
  • Psychrophyton Beauverd
  • Gnaphalium section Psychrophyton (Hook.f. ex Raoul) Baillon

Raoulia is a genus of New Zealand plants in the pussy's-toes tribe within the daisy family.[2][3]

Raoulia grow in alpine areas, forming very fine and dense growths.[4] These compact growths form large amorphous cushion-like masses with only the growing tips visible. Due to their shape and form, the plant clusters resemble sheep from afar, this giving them their alternate name, vegetable sheep.[5]

Taxonomy

Species[1][6]
  1. Raoulia albosericea
  2. Raoulia apicinigra
  3. Raoulia australis
  4. Raoulia beauverdii
  5. Raoulia bryoides
  6. Raoulia buchananii
  7. Raoulia catipes
  8. Raoulia chiliastra
  9. Raoulia cinerea
  10. Raoulia eximia
  11. Raoulia glabra
  12. Raoulia goyenii
  13. Raoulia grandiflora
  14. Raoulia haastii
  15. Raoulia hectorii
  16. Raoulia hookeri
  17. Raoulia mammillaris
  18. Raoulia monroi
  19. Raoulia parkii
  20. Raoulia petriensis
  21. Raoulia planchonii
  22. Raoulia rubra
  23. Raoulia subsericea
  24. Raoulia subulata
  25. Raoulia tenuicaulis
  26. Raoulia youngii
formerly included[1]

see Argyrotegium

Cultivation

Slow spreading, flat rock garden plant with silver-gray, almost moss-like, foliage.

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