- The long wait - (2)

For more than two years, because of the pandemic, I was waiting for photograph this interesting flower at Botanic Garden.

I don't know why, but the area where it grows was closed to the public.

Finaly, some months ago I could photograph. The area is shadowed most of the time, but I was luck because the plant grew a lot in this period and some flowers and leaves were touched by th sunlight :)

 

Kohleria amabilis, the tree gloxinia, is a species of the flowering plant belonging to the family Gesneriaceae.

This species is native to Honduras (Mesoamerica) and Colombia.

 

Kohleria amabilis can reach a height of 60 centimetres . Leaves have a silvery pattern and are egg-shaped, velvety, 10–10.5 centimetres long. The brightly colored flowers are about 5 centimetres, long, tubular, slightly nodding, usually pink on the outside with red or purple dots inside.

 

This photo shows "Kohleria amabilis var. bogotensis" which has dark green leaves and yellow and red-orange flowers. Flowering period extends from late Winter through the Spring and Summer.

These tropical plants are rhizomatous and have a period of seasonal leafless dormancy.

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