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The cape honeysuckle, T. capensis, grows most luxuriantly in Florida gardens and in those all along the Gulf coast. It is usually grown on trellises on verandas and piazzas with a southern exposure. Of all the species this is the best and most suitable for verandas, being a dense and compact grower, evergreen, almost constantly in flower, easily kept in health and readily trained into shapely specimens. If the long shoots are cut back severely, the plant can be easily trained into shrub form. These long shoots, usually lying flat on the ground, readily strike root and form an excellent material for propagation. T. capensis and Tecoma Smithii are the only ones which grow and flower fairly well as pot-plants in northern greenhouses. They need good soil and rather large pots to do well. If not well cared for they lose most of their foliage and look poor and unshapely.
The cape honeysuckle, T. capensis, grows most luxuriantly in Florida gardens and in those all along the Gulf coast. It is usually grown on trellises on verandas and piazzas with a southern exposure. Of all the species this is the best and most suitable for verandas, being a dense and compact grower, evergreen, almost constantly in flower, easily kept in health and readily trained into shapely specimens. If the long shoots are cut back severely, the plant can be easily trained into shrub form. These long shoots, usually lying flat on the ground, readily strike root and form an excellent material for propagation. T. capensis and Tecoma Smithii are the only ones which grow and flower fairly well as pot-plants in northern greenhouses. They need good soil and rather large pots to do well. If not well cared for they lose most of their foliage and look poor and unshapely.
T. fulva, Baill (Tecoma fulva, Don). Evergreen upright shrub to 15 ft. high.: lvs. odd-pinnate, with 9-13 small, ovate, toothed lfts.: fls. in terminal panicles, tubular-funnelform, slender, yellow, tinged red, 1 1/2 in. long; stamens slightly exserted. Peru. B.M. 4896. F.S. 11:1116. T. shirensis, Schum. (Tecoma shirensis, Baker. T. Whytei, C. H. Wright). Similar to T. capensis. Shrub, to 10 ft: lfts. 9-13, ovate, serrate, 1-1 1/2 in. long: corolla about 2 in. long, orange-yellow, the limb marked with red stripes. Nyasaland. B.M. 7970.
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