Naegelia cinnabarina

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Read about Naegelia cinnabarina in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Naegelia cinnabarina, Lind. (Gesneria cinnabarina, Lind. Smithiantha cinnabarina, Kuntze). Fine winter-blooming plant, 11/2-2 ft. tall, soft-hairy: lvs. round-ovate and cordate, crenate-dentate, thickish, green, with red or purplish hairs: fls. about 1 ½ in. long, hanging on the ends of spreading pedicels, gibbous-tubular to the very base, the calyx-lobes acute and spreading, the short corolla-lobes unequal and obtuse, the fl. cinnabar-red or nearly scarlet on the upper side, but paler and spotted on the under side. Mex. B.M. 5036. Lowe, 33. H.F. II. 5:4 (var. rosea).


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