Centropogon

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Read about Centropogon in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Centropogon (Greek kentron, spur, and pogon, beard, referring to the fringed stigma). Campanulaceae. Sub-shrubs or shrubs, often scandent, grown under glass.

Plants with alternate mostly dentate lvs., and axillary, long, tubular fls. which are violet, purple, red, or orange, and usually borne singly on long peduncles: corolla 2-lipped, the tube incurved: bracteoles very small or wanting.—More than 100 species in Trop. Amer. Warmhouse perennials useful for hanging- baskets, prop, by cuttings which it is better to put under a bell-jar.

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