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

Agapetes moorei Tree
Ref No: 19347
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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

Agapetes moorei Hemsl. An erect shrub with leathery leaves and tubular orange-red flowers with recurved green tips to the lobes, native of Burma, growing as an epiphyte, flowering in March–April under glass. Shrub to 2.5m high; stems glabrous; leaves 6.5–7.5cm long, 2.5–3.2cm wide, elliptic, acute, not toothed. Calyx-lobes short, triangular. Flowers in erect groups of 12–20, to 2.4cm long, the green lobes becoming yellow and finally red. Cultivated before 1895. Min. -5°C.

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