Aphelandra blanchetiana
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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Aphelandra blanchetiana, Hook, f. (A. amoena, Bull). St. terete, green, tinted with dull purple, with deeper shading around the base of petiole and at the nodes, thick and stout: Lvs. ovate-acuminate, with many pairs of conspicuous nerves, green, the midrib, and often the main veins, white; petiole, 1-2 in. long, terete, glabrous: fls. dark yellow, exceeding the long, entire, cusp-pointed red scales: spike sessile. Brazil. B.M. 7179.—Known in the trade as A. amoena, having been described under that name before it had flowered in cult.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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