Description
FLOWER PARTS
- Pedicel :
- Ovary :
- Tube color : red
- Tube shape :
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- Sepal color upper : red
- Sepal color lower :
- Sepal shape :
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- Corolla opening color : white pink
- Corolla mature color : red
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- Stigma :
MISCELLANEOUS
- Flower : single
- Flowers : perfect flowers, pedicels 4 to 12 mm long, hypanthium 3.5 to 6.5 mm long, 2.5 to 3.8 mm wide at rim, 0.5 to 1 mm wide at base, sepals 2.5 to 4.5 mm long, 1.5 to 2.2 mm wide at base, petals 2 to 4 mm long, 1.5 to 3.2 mm wide, style 7.5 to 11.2 mm long, the stigma exserted 3 to 4.5 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes 0.9 to 1.1 mm long. pistillate flowers. pedicels 4 to 8 mm long, hypanthium 1.2 to 2.2 mm long, 1.1 to 1.7 mm wide at rim, 0.3 to 0.6 mm wide at base, sepals 1.6 to 2.7 mm long, 0.8 to 1.3 mm wide at base, petals 1.1 to 1.8 mm long, 0.5 to 1.2 mm wide, style 2.9 to 4.5 mm long, the stigma exserted 1.5 to 2.2 mm above the rim of the hypanthium, its lobes 1.2 to 1.4 mm long
- Flower size : tiny
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- Habit : shrub
- Hardiness:
- Height : 0.5-2.2 m
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- Remarks : Humboldt 1823, flowers 3-4mm large, blooms start to flower white-rose and after they are fertilized by insects they turn red
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- Authors : Breedlove 1969
- Original publication : Nov. Gen. Sp. 6: 104 1823; Univ. Calif. Publ. Bot. 53: 50 1969
- Habitat : common in the understory of pine, oak and fir forests from the Sierra Madre Occidental of Sinaloa and Durango southward to Jalisco and east across the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt to Vera Cruz, then north to the Sierra de Pachuca of Hidalgo and south to the Sierra Juárez of Oaxaca
- Elevation : 2000-3200
- Native country : Mexico
- Synonyms : Brebissonia thymifolia, (Kunth) Spach 1835, Lyciopsis thymifolia, (Kunth) Spach 1835, F. pringlei, Robinson & Seaton 1893, F. colimae, Munz 1943
- Gametic chromosome number n = 11
FOLIAGE
- Leaves : petiole 4 to 17 mm long
- Foliage color upper side :
- Foliage color lower side :
- Leaf dimensions : 8-30mm long x 5mm wide
- Leaf shape : broadly elliptic to ovate
- Leaf margin :
- Leaf tip : obtuse to acute
- Leaf base : obtuse to attenuate
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- Stems :
- Branches : branchlets 25 to 40 cm long, older branches 15 to 25 mm thick