Agapetes
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Agapetes is a semi-climbing shrub genus
native to the Himalayas
, grown as an ornamental for its attractive pendulous benches of red tubular flowers blooming over a long period. It is mostly grown in climates from cool temperate to sub-tropical. Propagation is from cuttings.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
native to the Himalayas
Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
, grown as an ornamental for its attractive pendulous benches of red tubular flowers blooming over a long period. It is mostly grown in climates from cool temperate to sub-tropical. Propagation is from cuttings.
Species
- Agapetes buxifolia
- Agapetes hosseana
- Agapetes incurvata
- Agapetes lobbii
- Agapetes macrantha
- Agapetes mannii
- Agapetes megasum
- Agapetes meiniana
- Agapetes mitrarioides
- Agapetes racemosa Watt.
- Agapetes serpensAgapetes serpensAgapetes serpens is a semi-climbing shrub species native to the Himalayas, 40–60 cm tall, grown as an ornamental for its attractive pendulous benches of red tubular flowers blooming over a long period. It is mostly grown in climates from cool temperate to sub-tropical. Propagation is from...
- Agapetes serrata
- Agapetes subsessilifolia