Incarvillea Blooms
by Kenneth Roberts
Title
Incarvillea Blooms
Artist
Kenneth Roberts
Medium
Photograph - Digital Photograph
Description
This incarvillea was photographed in a garden in La Mesa, California.
Incarvillea is a genus of about 16 species of flowering plants in the family Bignoniaceae, native to central and eastern Asia, with most of the species growing at high altitudes in the Himalaya and Tibet. The most familiar species is Incarvillea delavayi, a garden plant commonly known as hardy gloxinia or Chinese trumpet flower. Unlike most other members of Bignoniaceae, which are mainly tropical woody plants, species of Incarvillea are herbs from temperate regions.
Genetic analysis supports the division of the genus into five clades: the subgenus Niedzwedzkia, the subgenus Amphicome, the subgenus Incarvillea, the subgenus Pteroscleris, and the species I. olgae, which does not fit into a subgenus. It may be given a subgenus of its own in a future study.
Incarvillea is named after the French Jesuit missionary and botanist Pierre Nicholas Le Chéron d'Incarville.
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July 15th, 2016
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Maria Keady
Wow....bold and vibrant....lovely flower!!!
Kenneth Roberts replied:
Thank you, Maria! I thought at first you were referring to the photo of me, but then you mentioned flower and, well, that's okay, I suppose..
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