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| name = ''Leonotis'' | | name = ''Leonotis'' | ||
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| wide = <!--- 65cm (25 inches) --> | | wide = <!--- 65cm (25 inches) --> | ||
| origin = <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc --> | | origin = <!--- Mexico, S America, S Europe, garden, etc --> | ||
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| + | Leonotis (Greek, lion's ear, which the flowers are supposed to resemble). ''Labiate''. Lion's Ear. Lion's Tail. This includes a tender shrub with scarlet-orange, gaping flowers, cultivated outdoors in southern Florida and southern California.; and it is an excellent winter bloomer under glass. | ||
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| + | Annual or perennial herbs, coarse and tall: Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate: flowers. white or yellow in very dense axillary whorls; calyx 8-10-ribbed, the tube arched and funnel-shaped; corolla-tube as long as calyx; upper lip long and concave, outside hairy; lower lip deflexed, the 3 lobes nearly equal; stamens 4, arched, didynamous; style 2-lobed. Species about 20 in Trop. and S. Africa, one more widely dispersed. | ||
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Read about Leonotis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Leonotis (Greek, lion's ear, which the flowers are supposed to resemble). Labiate. Lion's Ear. Lion's Tail. This includes a tender shrub with scarlet-orange, gaping flowers, cultivated outdoors in southern Florida and southern California.; and it is an excellent winter bloomer under glass. Annual or perennial herbs, coarse and tall: Leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate: flowers. white or yellow in very dense axillary whorls; calyx 8-10-ribbed, the tube arched and funnel-shaped; corolla-tube as long as calyx; upper lip long and concave, outside hairy; lower lip deflexed, the 3 lobes nearly equal; stamens 4, arched, didynamous; style 2-lobed. Species about 20 in Trop. and S. Africa, one more widely dispersed.
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