Wigandia urens var. caracasana

Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

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. The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.