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{{Inc| Vanhouttea (named for Louis Van Houtte, a Belgian nurseryman). Syn., Houttea. Gesneriaceae. Low branching appressed-hairy shrubs, probably adapted only to warmhouse culture: lvs. opposite, fleshy, crowded at the ends of the branches, lower surface more or less canescent-felty: fls. solitary, axillary, long-pedicelled, red or speckled; calyx-tube adnate to the ovary, 5-ribbed, lobes elongated, acute; corolla-tube elongated-cylindrical, lobes 5, rounded, spreading disk broad with 5 glands, the 2 posterior usually grown together; ovary almost entirely inferior: caps. with a twisted beak. About 5 species, Brazil. V. calcarata, Lem. (Houttea pardina, Decne. Gesnera pardina, Hook.). St. about 1 1/2 ft. high, erect, rather stout, terete, brown, branched: lvs. rather stoutly petioled, elliptical, acute, rather thick and fleshy, strongly serrated, downy above and more so beneath: peduncle axillary, solitary, 1-fld., shorter than the lvs.: calyx-tube turbinate, adherent with the lower part of the ovary, segms. large, acute, spreading; corolla 1 1/2 in. or more long, ochre-red, yellow within, spotted with deep red, especially the limb and tube inside; ovary semi-inferior, hairy, with 5 yellow glands. Brazil. B.M. 4348. H.U. 6, p. 289. Cult. probably as for achimenes and similar plants. }} ==Cultivation==  ===Propagation===  ===Pests and diseases===  ==Species==  ==Gallery== {{photo-sources}} <gallery> Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963    ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__

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