Phygelius x rectus 'Devil's Tears'

• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Family Scrophulariaceae

Herbs, sometimes shrubs , rarely trees ; mostly autotrophic, less often hemiparasitic or parasitic. Stipules absent. Leaves alternate, opposite, whorled , or basally opposite and apically alternate, simple or sometimes pinnately dissected . Inflorescences racemes , spikes, or thyrsoid panicles, determinate or indeterminate, or flowers solitary. Flowers perfect , usually zygomorphic, rarely actinomorphic . Calyx often persistent , (2-) 4- or 5-lobed or -parted, variously connate . Corolla sympetalous ; limb (3 or) 4- or 5-lobed, often 2-lipped. Stamens mostly 4, didynamous , sometimes 1 or 2 staminodes present, less often 2 or 5 stamens; anther locules 1 or 2, equal or subequal , free or confluent . Nectary often present at base of ovary, ringlike, cupular, or reduced to a gland . Ovary superior, 2-loculed, rarely apically 1-loculed; ovules numerous , rarely 2 per locule, on axile placentas, anatropous or hemitropous . Style simple; stigma capitate, 2-lobed, or 2-lamellate. Fruit a capsule, septicidal , loculicidal, or septifragal, sometimes opening by pores or irregularly dehiscent , rarely a berry. Seeds minute or rarely conspicuous , sometimes winged ; testa often reticulate ; hilum lateral or ventral; endosperm fleshy or absent; embryo straight or curved .

About 220 genera and 4500 species: cosmopolitan ; 61 genera (seven endemic) and 681 species (415 endemic) throughout China but with a greater concentration in SW China.[1]

Physical Description

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 36-48" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 6.1 • Maximum pH: 7.8

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

Parentage: Phygelius × rectus 'Winchester Fanfare' × capensis 'Coccineus'

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Similar Species

Members of the genus Phygelius

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 13 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

P. aequalis 'Salmon Leap' (Cape Fuchsia) · P. aequalis 'Sensation' (Sensation Cape Fuchsia) · P. aequalis 'Yellow Trumpet' (Cape Fuchsia) · P. capensis (Cape-Fuchsia) · P. × rectus Candy Drops Red (Cape Figwort) · P. x rectus 'African Queen' (Cape Fuschia) · P. x rectus 'Devil's Tears' (Devil's Tears Cape Fuchsia) · P. x rectus 'Moonraker' (Moonraker Cape Fuchsia) · P. x rectus 'New Sensation' (Cape Fuchsia) · P. x rectus 'Sunshine' (Cape Fuschia) · P. x rectus 'Trewidden Pink' (Cape Fuchsia) · P. x rectus 'Winchester Fanfare' (Cape Fuchsia) · P. 'Sunburst' (Cape Fuchsia)

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Further Reading

• Tsoong Puchiu & Yang Hanbi, eds. 1979. Scrophulariaceae (1). Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 67(2): 1-431. Tsoong Puchiu, ed. 1963. Scrophulariaceae (2). Fl. Reipulb. Popularis Sin. 68: 1-449.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.

Identifiers

• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 1831506

Footnotes

1. Deyuan Hong, Hanbi Yang, Cun-li Jin, Manfred A. Fischer, Noel H. Holmgren & Robert R. Mill "Scrophulariaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 18 Page 1. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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