Sarmienta scandens (Sarmienta scandens)
Description
Though technically a shrub, this prostrate plant with semi-woody rooting stems to 15cm or more long, is really more like an evergreen perennial. Leaves in opposite pairs, obovate to elliptic, 1-2.5cm long, somewhat fleshy, with a few teeth or small lobes at the tip. Flowers solitary from the leaf axils, 2-3cm long, lop-sided amphora or urn-shaped, with long extruding stamens, pendent, crimson, late winter (if grown in a conservatory) to early summer, sometimes later. southern Chile and Argentina, in temperate rain forest on mossy branches and boulders.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum: Magnoliophyta
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Lamiales
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Family: Gesneriaceae
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Genus: Sarmienta
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