Rogers Trees and Shrubs - Agapetes buxifolia Tree


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Agapetes buxifolia. Click a photo to enlarge it. back to list

Ref No: 19344
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tree/shrub type: Broad leaved trees and shrubs

foliage: Evergreen

size: Average shrubs

leaf type: Simple leaves

flowering period: Spring

leaf colour: Leaves green

plants for a purpose: Trees and shrubs with decorative red/magenta/orange flowers, Trees and shrubs with variegated coloured flowers

growing conditions: Plants for acid soils

Agapetes buxifolia Hook. fil. (Ericaceae) A spreading shrub with small leaves and tubular red flowers, native of Assam and Bhutan, growing in forest at 600–1350m, flowering in February–April under glass. Shrub to 1m high and wide; young stems bristly; leaves 2–3cm, elliptic, shallowly toothed and glandular towards the obtuse apex. Flowers to 2.5cm long. Free-flowering and easily grown in a pot in acid soil or on a raised peat bed. Min. -3°C.

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