Lysionotus (Gesneriaceae) HWJK2426

serratus

From one of our collections gathered from our epic eastern Nepal trek in 2002 with Dan Hinkley and Jamaica Kincaid. Of an epiphytic sub-shrubby species with short upright almost succulent pale green stems to 50cm tall bearing clustered elliptic bristly leaves and long tubular purple-blue flowers with white and yellow throats on slender stalks. Best grown in a container in a free draining compost in part shade.