Incarvillea delavayi

Bignoniaceae

Incarvillea delavayi

Incarvillea delavayi

Incarvillea delavayi

The flowers of incarvilleas are large for the size of the plant, and brightly coloured. They are widely flared trumpets, a few to each short stem, in the wild appearing in the summer rain after a dry spring. A few species are shrubby, with more flowers to each stem, but smaller.

		Incarvillea delavayi SDR4711 is an easy species with quite tall, upright stems, which have several of the very large, bright pink flowers.
		Incarvillea forrestii is a species with deep pink flowers, and rather smaller leaves than others.
		Incarvillea grandiflora has flowers which are usually solitary, but larger than those of the species. Its habit is also shorter than other Incarvillea, with a scanty rosette of leaves with only 1 or 2 pairs of leaflets. This variety has superb large deep crimson pink trumpet shaped flowers with a yellow tube and handsome white blotches on the throat.
		Incarvillea himalayensis 'Frank Ludlow' is a particularly fine form of a species that is closely related to Incarvillea mairei, with large (up to 8 cm across) flowers, reddish pink with a white throat to the trumpet, and two white flares at the pase of each corolla lobe. It is one of two excellent introductions of the species from one of Sherriff and Ludlow's expeditions.
		Incarvillea lutea is a fantastic plant, but very rarely seen in cultivation. It is a robust perennial, with tall stems packed with very large, pale yellow, trumpet-shaped flower, deeper yellow within.
		Incarvillea mairei has strong reddish pink flowers with a white and yellow throat, a few of the large flowers on each stem, very close to the ground in relation to their large size.
		Incarvillea mairei SDR4336 is an easy species to grow, with short stems, barely able to keep the huge trumpet flowers off the ground. This collection is from a meadow with almost pure limestone soil.
		Incarvillea mairei SDR6732 has strong reddish pink flowers with a white and yellow throat, a few of the large flowers on each stem, very close to the ground in relation to their large size. From a high-altitude meadow close to a lake.
		Incarvillea zhongdianensis white-flowered comes from a white-flowered parent, but seedlings cannot be guaranteed to be white themselves. The flowers, one or two per stem and very large, trumpet-shaped, are held on short stems, barely above the ground.