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Wigandia caracasana, HBK. Fig. 3999. Erect robust sub-shrub, up to 9 ft. high, softly golden or silky-pubescent: lvs. rather long-petioled, ovate, obtuse, base subcordate, 18 x 10 in., coarsely, doubly and irregularly crenate, white-tomentose beneath: infl. golden silky-pubescent, terminal, elongate, strict (a thyrsoid cincinnus): corolla violet, tube white: caps. equaling or a little longer than the calyx. S. Mex. to Venezuela and Colombia. B.M. 4575 (adapted in Fig. 3999). B.R. 1966. F.S. 8:755. Gn. 4, p. 503; 8, p. 198. R.H. 1859, p. 653. J.F.2:132. Var. macrophylla, Brand (W. macrophylla, Cham. & Schlecht.), ia a larger-lvd. form which also grows rather taller than the type and has the infl. white-silky-pubescent. R.H. 1861:371.— It is the Mexican form of the species and the one mostly in cult.
Wigandia caracasana, HBK. Erect robust sub-shrub, up to 9 ft. high, softly golden or silky-pubescent: lvs. rather long-petioled, ovate, obtuse, base subcordate, 18 x 10 in., coarsely, doubly and irregularly crenate, white-tomentose beneath: infl. golden silky-pubescent, terminal, elongate, strict (a thyrsoid cincinnus): corolla violet, tube white: caps. equaling or a little longer than the calyx. S. Mex. to Venezuela and Colombia. Var. macrophylla, Brand (W. macrophylla, Cham. & Schlecht.), ia a larger-lvd. form which also grows rather taller than the type and has the infl. white-silky-pubescent.— It is the Mexican form of the species and the one mostly in cult.
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Wigandia caracasana, HBK. Erect robust sub-shrub, up to 9 ft. high, softly golden or silky-pubescent: lvs. rather long-petioled, ovate, obtuse, base subcordate, 18 x 10 in., coarsely, doubly and irregularly crenate, white-tomentose beneath: infl. golden silky-pubescent, terminal, elongate, strict (a thyrsoid cincinnus): corolla violet, tube white: caps. equaling or a little longer than the calyx. S. Mex. to Venezuela and Colombia. Var. macrophylla, Brand (W. macrophylla, Cham. & Schlecht.), ia a larger-lvd. form which also grows rather taller than the type and has the infl. white-silky-pubescent.— It is the Mexican form of the species and the one mostly in cult.


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