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A sprawling epiphytic species from Brazil. One of the largest flowered species in the genus, it grew well through the summer but wasn't tough enough to take
winter in the cold greenhouse. The Gesneriad Reference web says: "Sinningia cooperi grows from an exposed tuber, often on rocksides or other elevated locations. When the stems are able to arch down, the flowers orient relative to gravity, so that the galea (the hood) is on top and readily visible to pollinating hummingbirds coming from underneath; when the stems grow up from the tuber without arching, the flowers still orient that way relative to “down”, although they are reversed in orientation relative to the stem." Bihrmann's Caudiciforms online says: "This member of the Gesneriaceae family was given this name by Hans Joachim Wiehler in 1975. It is found in south and south-eastern Brazil, growing in a rich soil with some water and some sun. The caudex can grow up to eight centimetres in diameter and the whole plant will raise for up to fifteen centimetres. The flowers are red. The genera is named after Wilhelm Sinning,1792–1874, a gardener of the Botanische Gärten der Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. The species name in honour of Daniel Cooper 1817-1842, British botanist." |
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