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Incarvillea zhongdianensis PC

Bignoniaceae
 

Habitat: rock garden and raised beds

 

Soil: with grit and some humus

 

Height: 25 cm

 

Flowering: summer

 

Width: 20 cm

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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 zhongdianensis has very bright rosy pink flowers, just one or two per stem, but extremely large for the size of the plant, so that they are held barely above the ground.
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IMG_8289.jpg Incarvillea delavayi has rosettes of mid green leaves, divided into lance shaped coarsely toothed leaflets and up to 10 gloriously large widely trumpet shaped, yellow throated, rose pink to purple flowers. Originally from Yunnan in China.
IMG_8291.jpg Incarvillea delavayi SDR4711 is an easy species with quite tall, upright stems, which have several of the very large, bright pink flowers.
incarvillea_delavayi_snowtop.jpg Incarvillea delavayi 'Snowtop' is similar in habit to 'Bee's Pink' but has yellow-throated white flowers.
incarvillea_forrestii.jpg Incarvillea forrestii is a species with deep pink flowers, and rather smaller leaves than others.
invisible.gif 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_mairei.jpg 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.
IMG_8211.jpg 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.
IMG_8211.jpg 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.
invisible.gif Incarvillea zhongdianensis alba 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.