Habitat: sun or part shade or under glass
Soil: light, acid
Height: 10 cm
Flowering: early summer
Width: 15 cm
These plants are known as Slipper flowers or Pouch flowers due to the rounded, inflated lower lip of the blooms. They come from a range of habits in Central and South America. In the main the flowers in this genus are in shades of yellow or purple, but very often they are also spotted or splashed with contrasting colours.
Calceolaria uniflora var. darwinii SDR7039 is one of the most striking flowers of all. The plants are evergreen, with crinkled, shiny, dark green leaves and in early summer produce large, bright yellow-orange flowers that are speckled reddish brown, with a wide dark maroon band and a broad white band at the lower end of the pouch.
9 cm pot £4.00
| Calceolaria biflora bears two or more bright yellow flowers on each stem. | |
| Calceolaria corymbosa has lovely bright yellow 'slipper' flowers above a mat of bright green leaves. | |
| Calceolaria corymbosa subsp. montana has rosettes of deep green, rugose (wrinkled) leaves, rather like a Ramonda, but when it flowers it is completely different. It sends up tall stems with many bright yellow 'slipper' flowers, which continue for a couple of months. | |
| Calceolaria fothergillii this one has yellow flowers with red spots over a mat of dark green leaves. |