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A small shrubby species collected by Bob Brown in Argentina as Tecoma cochabambensis. Finer foliage than the commoner T.stans
and with smaller orange-red trumpet flowers. Bob described it as 'virtually hardy'. It isn't. One difficult winter in the greenhouse and it's dead dead dead. Cotswold Garden Flowers say: "A remarkable new plant. Terminal clusters of trumpet-shaped peachy-red flowers with orange throats, subshrub not a climber, only 1m. Seed collected Escoipe Gorge (Andes), Salta province, Argentina." Plants of the World online say: "The native range of this subspecies is S. Bolivia to NW. Argentina. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the seasonally dry tropical biome." John Wood says: "Frequent but rarely abundant along the eastern slopes of the Andes from the Cochabamba area (17°S) in Bolivia south to La Rioja (29°S) in Argentina. Subspecies garrocha is essentially a plant of the drier inter-Andean valleys below2700 m (one record from nearly 3000 m), with a marked preference for disturbed, rocky ground, especially above stream beds. It descends to just below 1700 min Bolivia, but to much lower altitudes further south in Argentina, where it grows as low as 500 m." |
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