Russelia

Plant Characteristics

Cultivation

Scientific Names

This is the plant information box - for information on light; water; zones; height; etc. If it is mostly empty you can help grow this page by clicking on the edit tab and filling in the blanks!"This is the plant information box - for information on light; water; zones; height; etc. If it is mostly empty you can help grow this page by clicking on the edit tab and filling in the blanks!" is not in the list (If this plant info box on watering; zones; height; etc. is mostly empty you can click on the edit tab and fill in the blanks!) of allowed values for the "Jump in" property.

Read about Russelia in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Russelia (in honor of Alexander Russell). Scrophulariaceae. Shrubs with angled, usually slender and often pendulous branches, grown in the warmhouse for their showy flowers. Leaves opposite or verticillate, usually small, reduced to scales on the branches: fls. in bracteate dichotomous cymes, either laxly or densely many-fld., sometimes reduced to a single fl., red; calyx deeply 5-cleft or 5-parted, segms. strongly imbricate; corolla-tube cylindrical, limb somewhat 2-lipped, 5-cleft, the lobes all rounded; stamens 4, didynamous: caps. subglobose, septicidally dehiscent, valves 2-cleft.—About 20 species, Mex. and Cent. Amer. A synopsis of Russelia by B. L. Robinson, with a key to the species, will be found in Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts. & Sci., vol. 35, No. 16, March, 1900. Russelias are of easy cultivation. R. juncea and its varieties make excellent basket-plants, being almost continuously in bloom. Propagated by cuttings. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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.

Describe the plant here...

Gallery

• 

  photo 1

• 

  photo 2

• 

  photo 3

References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

External links

• w:Russelia. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
• Russelia QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)