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calceolaria
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calceolaria

Plant with brilliantly coloured slipper-shaped flowers. Native to South America, calceolarias were introduced to Europe and the USA in the 1830s. (Genus Calceolaria, family Scrophulariaceae.)
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The flowers are something of a curiosity ( rounded and pouch-shaped ( giving rise to nicknames such as pouch flower, slipperwort and slipper flower.
Slipper plants set the bed off nicely by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
 
 
 
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