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Asteranthera ovata
Asteranthera ovata
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Family:  Gesneriaceae
Hardiness:  to Zone 8a
Mature Size:  8" x 48"
Exposure:  Part Shade / Shade
Moisture Needs: Moist
Origin:  Chile, Argentina
Price: $18.00
Pot Size: 4" Pot

Stock Status:(Out of Stock)

Product Code: P3539
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Description
 
One of those plants that turns you to jelly when you see it blooming.  We saw this grown to perfection at the Charlton-Sale garden in North Vancouver BC where it had grown over a stump in the woodland and crept over to the fissured bark of a nearby Douglas fir and was creeping up the furrows with over-sized red-pink trumpets of flowers which left us stricken dumb in the wilderness.  Fortunately it was right on the path and we could see the house and Charlie was nearby so we were able to stumble along muttering "Asteranthera - must have Asteranthera" in relative safety until our wits returned.  Now we are haunted by what other treasures we might have missed along the way while we were blinded by beauty.  This Chilean and Argentinian gesneriad demands a cool, humid, acidic, moist, somewhat shaded and relatively mild situation to thrive.  If you have these conditions, then this an automatic add to cart.   A small-leafed evergreen groundcover which will climb tightly appressed over or up boulders or logs.  Given time and proper conditions, it will climb up tree trunks or shaded brick walls to 10' or bit more and leave you steeped in wonder when it flowers..