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垂筒苣苔 "設計師的珊瑚海"
total plant height around 13"
植物全株高約13英吋
medium-sized Smithiantha hybrid
中型的垂筒苣苔交配種
dark red velvet foliage
暗紅色絨質葉片
orange-red outer tube, yellow center, dense flower
橘紅色外筒,花心黃色,花朵密開
orange-red edge and dots on bizarre gray base
橘紅色鑲邊跟點分布在奇異的灰色花瓣上
plant and spike proportion is around 6:4
株身與花序的比例約 6:4
垂筒苣苔 "設計師的花蜜鳥"
total plant height around 12"
植物全株高約12英吋
medium-sized Smithiantha hybrid
中型的垂筒苣苔交配種
medium green foliage with red vein
中綠色絨質葉片帶紅脈
light salmon on outer tube, open petals
淡鮭魚色外筒,花瓣平開
strong salmon color on petals, yellow center is heavily spotted.
深鮭魚色花瓣,黃色花心有密點
plant and spike proportion is around 6:4
株身與花序的比例約 6:4
Just to show it in bloom :-)
Sabah ... not far from home because we have direct flight (TPE - BKI) to go there and it only takes us 3 hours. It's my third times to visit Sabah but in dry season. At 1500 meters above sea level, I unexpectedly encountered this Gesneriad plant but the funny thing is that it was not the plant to stop me at the roadside. The story is that I saw a blooming Burbidgea when we drove by, the orange-yellow flower is hard to ignore, so we stopped to check it out. Not far away from that Burbidgea, I found an interesting plant and it looked like Cyrtandra splendens which is commonly recorded in the lowland of Sarawak. Anyway, I just know it belongs to Gesneriaceae family, genus Cyrtandra. Unfortunately there is no flower for double checking the ID. I found both young and old plants (with tall and woody stem) at the same place, the variegated foliage is beautiful, especially the young plants.
It is a seedling from the F1 cross "Sinningia reitzii x bullata" and it's a big plant now. Though it is a rigid plant but hard to be propagated by using the cutting. It flowers all the time no matter hot or cold.
Episcias are happy in the tropical garden all year round, the photos show Episcias mix with Kaempferias as a beautiful ground cover. The worst thing to grow Episcia in Taipei, Taiwan is our winter is cold enough to kill most varieties of Episcia if without proper strategy to keep them from the cold current. So I will have to start all over again. ~>.<~
