Gesneria longiflora

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Gesneria longiflora in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Gesneria longiflora, Hort., is a small-lvd. species, with drooping, long-tubed nicotiana-like white fls. Gn. 33:340.—The botanical position of this plant is in doubt. It is not the G. longiflora, HBK., which is purple-fld., nor G. longiflora. DC., which is Achimenes longiflora. By some it has been confounded with Isoloma longifolium, Decne. Pentarhaphia longiflora, Lindl. (Gesneria ventricosa, Swartz), is a small somewhat branched shrub: lvs. ovate-lanceolate or oblong- lanceolate, acuminate and serrulate, pale green beneath: fls. bright scarlet, 1 ½ in. long, in long-peduncled cymes; corolla-tube somewhat curved, narrowed toward the base; stamens red, much exserted. W. Indies. B.M. 7339.—A good summer- and autumn-blooming stove shrub. ^CH 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 It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article.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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