Pot Size: 2 litre Price: £12.00 Description: A species which has puzzled experts, until only recently described as new to science. Possessing a strong constitution quickly forming healthy clumps of fairly slender stems with stem-clasping leaves. Bearing violet-pink, white striped flowers 5cm long on very long slender tubes 12.5cm long, for many month through the summer for us until November. From one of my seed collections gathered on the Cangshan in Yunnan, China in 2000, where this species grew at 2700m close to a river. Height to 30 cm. Easily grown in any type of humus enriched fertile drained soil in sun or part shade. Previously sold as aff. praecox
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