Gloves in Rain. Ceratotheca triloba, African or Wild Floxglove, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Johann Frantz Drège (1794-1881), intrepid German plant collector
(www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/35077888644/in/photoli...) until his return from South Africa to a marriage in Germany and his settling down there as a nursery man in 1834, collected this African Foxglove between, as he writes, Omtata (=Umtata/Mthatha) and Omsamwubo (=Port St Johns/Umzimvubu) around 1832. It flourishes there along waterways. Apparently it was (and is) used in endemic medicine to cure a variety of intestinal ailments.
In the Hortus it's part of the fine collection of plants from South Africa. Our Foxglove here is out of doors and has to suffer the rain... I, though, could hurry back in.
Gloves in Rain. Ceratotheca triloba, African or Wild Floxglove, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Johann Frantz Drège (1794-1881), intrepid German plant collector
(www.flickr.com/photos/87453322@N00/35077888644/in/photoli...) until his return from South Africa to a marriage in Germany and his settling down there as a nursery man in 1834, collected this African Foxglove between, as he writes, Omtata (=Umtata/Mthatha) and Omsamwubo (=Port St Johns/Umzimvubu) around 1832. It flourishes there along waterways. Apparently it was (and is) used in endemic medicine to cure a variety of intestinal ailments.
In the Hortus it's part of the fine collection of plants from South Africa. Our Foxglove here is out of doors and has to suffer the rain... I, though, could hurry back in.