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Columnea (after Columna or Colonna, Italian writer on plants, sixteenth century). Ges- nerAcex. Tropical American shrubs and climbers, sometimes grown under glass in choice collections.
 
 
Flowers widely gaping, showy, often 2 in. long: Lvs. opposite, nearly equal or widely unlike: fls. solitary or numerous, axillary, stalked or not, without bracts or with bracts in an involucre; corollas scarlet, carmine or yellowish.—A group of 100 species of which half a dozen mostly red- or orange- fld., are cult, abroad and may be known to a few fanciers at home, but are not advertised by the dealers. They are warmhouse evergreens requiring the treatment of Trichosporum (Aeschynanthus).
 
 
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Columnea (after Columna or Colonna, Italian writer on plants, sixteenth century). Ges- nerAcex. Tropical American shrubs and climbers, sometimes grown under glass in choice collections.
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Flowers widely gaping, showy, often 2 in. long: Lvs. opposite, nearly equal or widely unlike: fls. solitary or numerous, axillary, stalked or not, without bracts or with bracts in an involucre; corollas scarlet, carmine or yellowish.—A group of 100 species of which half a dozen mostly red- or orange- fld., are cult, abroad and may be known to a few fanciers at home, but are not advertised by the dealers. They are warmhouse evergreens requiring the treatment of Trichosporum (Aeschynanthus).
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C. glabra, Oerst, var. major. Fls. scarlet; stamens white. Costa Rica. — C. magnifica, Klotsach A Hanst. Corolla bright scarlet; tube inflated about the middle. Costa Rica. G.C. III. 43:60. — C. Oerstcdi&na, Klotzsch. Epiphytic undershrub or herb: fls. scarlet. Costa Rica. B.M. 8344. N. Taylor.
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*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
 
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Read about Columnea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Columnea (after Columna or Colonna, Italian writer on plants, sixteenth century). Ges- nerAcex. Tropical American shrubs and climbers, sometimes grown under glass in choice collections.

Flowers widely gaping, showy, often 2 in. long: Lvs. opposite, nearly equal or widely unlike: fls. solitary or numerous, axillary, stalked or not, without bracts or with bracts in an involucre; corollas scarlet, carmine or yellowish.—A group of 100 species of which half a dozen mostly red- or orange- fld., are cult, abroad and may be known to a few fanciers at home, but are not advertised by the dealers. They are warmhouse evergreens requiring the treatment of Trichosporum (Aeschynanthus).

C. glabra, Oerst, var. major. Fls. scarlet; stamens white. Costa Rica. — C. magnifica, Klotsach A Hanst. Corolla bright scarlet; tube inflated about the middle. Costa Rica. G.C. III. 43:60. — C. Oerstcdi&na, Klotzsch. Epiphytic undershrub or herb: fls. scarlet. Costa Rica. B.M. 8344. N. Taylor. CH


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