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Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

Read about Wigandia urens in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Wigandia urens, Choisy, not HBK. (W. peruviana, W. Mill. Hydrolea urens, Ruiz & Pav.). Stout erect subshrub up to 12 ft. high, very densely dirty white-hispid: lvs. short-petioled, 8-12 x 6-7 in., broadly ovate, irregularly dentate-serrate, base cordate or truncate, apex obtuse: fls. arranged in a broad terminal raceme (cincinnus); sepals lanceolate-acute, hispid; corolla violet, parted to the middle, lobes elliptical, densely silky outside: caps. oblong, twice shorter than the calyx. Peru. R.H. 1867, p. 470. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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