Leonotis

Plant Characteristics
Lifespan:	⌛	perennial or annual"perennial or annual" is not in the list (perennial, annual, biennial, unknown) of allowed values for the "Lifespan" property.

Cultivation

Scientific Names
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Read about Leonotis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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. 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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