Russelia sarmentosa

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

Overview

Interesting Facts

Common Names

Description

Physical Description

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 24-36" apart.

Soil: Minimum pH: 5.6 • Maximum pH: 6.5

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full Sun .

Moisture: Drought Tolerance: High

Temperature: Cold Hardiness: 8b, 9a, 9b, 10a, 10b, 11. (map)

Taxonomy

Notes

A tentatively accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Place of publication : Enum. syst. pl. 25. 1760 (Select. stirp. amer. hist. 178, t. 113. 1763)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Russelia

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 5 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

R. coccinea (Coral Bush) · R. equisetiformis (Coral Plant) · R. equisetiformis 'Alba' (Coral Plant) · R. rotundifolia 'San Carlos' (Red Firecracker Plant) · R. sarmentosa (Leafy Coral Blow)

More Info

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Further Reading

• A year of Costa Rican natural history, by Amelia Smith Calvert. .. and Philip Powell Calvert. .. with maps and illustrations. New York, The Macmillan company, 1917. url p. 178, p. 547.
• Anales de la Sociedad Española de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 278, p. 278.
• Biologia centrali-americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and Central America. London, Pub. for the editors by R. H. Porter and Dulau & co., 1879-88. url .
• Contribution [I]-III to the coastal and plain flora of Yucatan, by Charles Frederick Millspaugh. 1 1896 Chicago, 1895-1898. url p. 319, p. 44.
• Contributions from the New York Botanical Garden. New York: The Garden, 1899- url p. 186.
• Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 23 1920-1926 Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1890- url p. 1308, p. 1309, p. 334, p. 345.
• Flora Vitiensis nova: a new Flora of Fiji (spermatophytes only) / Albert C. Smith. Lawaii, Hawaii: Pacific Tropical Botanical Garden, 1979- url p. 78.
• Flora costaricensis / William Burger, editor. 41 2000 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, c2000. url p. 173, p. 5, p. 55, p. 56.
• Flora of Costa Rica. .. by Paul C. Standley. .. 18 1938 Chicago, 1937. url p. 1110.
• Flora of Guatemala / Paul C. Standley and Louis O. Williams. 24 1973 Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, 1973. url p. 388, p. 394.
• Flora of Yucatan, by Paul C. Standley. 3 1930 Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, 1930. url p. 416.
• Flora of the Aguan valley and the coastal regions near La Ceiba, Honduras, by T. G. Yuncker. 9 1940 [Chicago]1940. url p. 333.
• General embryological information service. Utrecht, Hubrecht Laboratory. url p. 65.
• Monograph of the genus Russelia (Scrophulariaceae) 24 1957 Chicago, Ill.: Chicago Natural History Museum, 1957. url p. 231, p. 233, p. 241, p. 243, p. 245, p. 259, p. 261, p. 267.
• Natural history of the Tres Marias Islands, Mexico. Washington, Govt. Print Off., 1899. url p. 86.
• North American fauna. Washington: Fish and Wildlife Service; for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off. url p. 86.
• Phytologia memoirs. Plainfield, N.J.: H.N. Moldenke and A.L. Moldenke, 1980- url p. 254, p. 258.
• Phytologia. Bronx Park, New York, H.A. Gleason and H.N. Moldenke, url p. 146, p. 147.
• Pittonia: a series of papers relating to botany and botanists /by Edward L. Greene. 1 1887-1889 Berkeley, Calif. [etc.]: Doxey & Co. [etc.], 1887-1905. url p. 176.
• Plant culture; a working hand-book of every day practice for all who grow flowering and ornamental plants in the garden and greenhouse, by George W. Oliver. New York, A. T. De La Mare Printing and Publishing Co., c1912. url , p. 90, p. 90.
• Plant culture; a working handbook of every day practice for all who grow flowering and ornamental plants in the garden and greenhouse, New York, A. T. De La Mare Co., Inc.[c1921] url .
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia url p. 186, p. 186, p. 257.
• Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Boston: Metcalf and Co., 1846-1958 url p. 321, p. 474.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th series. San Francisco, California Academy of Sciences. url p. 466.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 782.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 133.
• The forests and flora of British Honduras / by Paul C. Standley and Samuel J. Record; in cooperation with the Conservator of Forests and the Agricultural Officer of the Colony. 12 1936 Chicago: [Field Museum of Natural History], 1936. url p. 355.
• The gardens' bulletin, Straits Settlements. Singapore: Straits Times Press, 1913-1941. url p. 202.
• The illustrated dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists. Ed. by George Nicholson. Assisted by Professor J. W. H. Trail and J. Garrett. London: L. U. Gill, [1884]-89. url p. 335.
• The standard cyclopedia of horticulture; a discussion, for the amateur, and the professional and commercial grower, of the kinds, characteristics and methods of cultivation of the species of plants grown in the regions of the United States a Illustrated with colored plates, four thousand engravings in the text, and ninety-six full-page cuts. New York, Macmillan, 1919 [c1914] url p. 1475, p. 3038.
• Wrightia. 2 1959-1963 Richardson, Tex. [etc.]University of Texas at Dallas. url p. 63.

Notes

Contributors

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

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 28, 2007:

• Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Andes to Amazon Biodiversity Program
• GBIF-Spain, Real Jardin Botanico
• , Vascular Plant Herbarium
• Herbarium of the University of Aarhus, The AAU Herbarium Database
• Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad
• , Biodiversidad de Costa Rica
• Missouri Botanical Garden, Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales, NSW herbarium collection
• The New York Botanical Garden, Vascular Plant Type Specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3436609
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15854046
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:808935-1
• GRIN Nomen Number: 32573
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 606896

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