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Columnea (after Columna or Colonna, Italian writer on plants, sixteenth century). Ges- nerAcex. Tropical American shrubs and climbers, sometimes grown under glass in choice collections.
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Flowers widely gaping, showy, often 2 in. long: Lvs. opposite, nearly equal or widely unlike: fls. solitary or numerous, axillary, stalked or not, without bracts or with bracts in an involucre; corollas scarlet, carmine or yellowish.—A group of 100 species of which half a dozen mostly red- or orange- fld., are cult, abroad and may be known to a few fanciers at home, but are not advertised by the dealers. They are warmhouse evergreens requiring the treatment of Trichosporum (Aeschynanthus).
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