Description: One of a few genera of flowering plants requiring 'buzz pollination' by bees.
Culture: prefers a little drier soil than other CP's - grow in a deeper pot in a 50:50 sand:peat mix. Grows best with tropical conditions and uniformly damp, but not waterlogged soils. Dry summer dormancy in its native habitat, but this dry period does not appear to be required in cultivation.
Accession Data:
Accession # 200201858
Source: Marcia Kirinus - Duke
Provenance: Rcvd from Marcia Kirinus at AERGC Annual Meeting - Duke# 02-025
WCSP (2016). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Thursday, September 07, 2017.
Image #00 (cropped) & #02 (original) by No machine-readable author provided. Denis Barthel assumed (based on copyright claims). [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC BY-SA 2.0 de], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Wednesday, September 27, 2017.
data regenerated on Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:24:06 -0400 [bcm v4.0]
W/C = Wild Collected = indicates flowering in past 14 days
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