Evanescent yellow flowers, persistent orange calyxes, pretty nice. And it can get a couple feet high and as wide. Excellent Caribbean plant. I never heard of it. It's such a spectacular plant that many many people grow it and I've read lots of posts and followed a few threads. Apparently the plants sometimes form tubers, sometimes not. Hardiness is also a question. The dormancy is dry/wet but some sources suggest a hardiness of USDA Zone 9 which would make it work for us. Others suggest, a bit warmer. I seem to see a pattern of success with plants outside just a bit farther south than we are. So it's coming north and will winter inside in a pot. Still, apparently it will grow and flower so long as the weather stays hot and humid and it doesn't dry out.
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Chrysothemis pulchella 'Black Flamingo'.....this is not your grandmother's Gloxinia, er Gesneriad
Evanescent yellow flowers, persistent orange calyxes, pretty nice. And it can get a couple feet high and as wide. Excellent Caribbean plant. I never heard of it. It's such a spectacular plant that many many people grow it and I've read lots of posts and followed a few threads. Apparently the plants sometimes form tubers, sometimes not. Hardiness is also a question. The dormancy is dry/wet but some sources suggest a hardiness of USDA Zone 9 which would make it work for us. Others suggest, a bit warmer. I seem to see a pattern of success with plants outside just a bit farther south than we are. So it's coming north and will winter inside in a pot. Still, apparently it will grow and flower so long as the weather stays hot and humid and it doesn't dry out.
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