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HERB. HORT. EDINB.
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN
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Aeschynanthus longiflorus Blume
Det.: David Middleton 2007
ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN EDINBURGH
Cultivated Plants
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Gesneriaceae
Aeschynanthus rhododendron Rid.
Living collection info.:
Garden Collector: Middleton, David J. No. 3693
Accession number & Qualifier: 19680624*A
Collected: 15 JUN 2005
Garden Description: Epiphyte with arching stems. Stems green
with brown speckles. Leaves mid green above, paler beneath.
Pedicels and calyx very dark red. Corolla tube very dark red at
base, becoming somewhat paler up the tube, lobes bright red
outside, bright red inside at margin, with a black band and some
black speckling inside that and then yellow at base and in tube.
Filaments pale yellow at base, pale purple in upper half, anthers
purplish-grey, pollen pale orange. Style white at base, pale
purple at top, stigma brown.
Source / donor: Woods, P. Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
Grown on from original wild collection:
Collector: Woods, P.J.B. 600
Collected: APR 1968
Location: MALAYSIA: Selangor: Genting Highlands: Border of
Selangor and Pahang, ridge approaching Gunong Bunga Buah
at Uli Kali. Exposed ridge. ca 1,500 m.
Description: Epiphyte growing on lower trunks; calyx and corolla
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