Lavatera phoenicea (Salmon-red Canary Shrub Mallow) Exclusive
Lavatera phoenicea (Salmon-red Canary Shrub Mallow) Exclusive
150 (300)cm, Salmon-red Canary Shrub Mallow is a very rare and threatened species with utmost showy large, colorful salmon-orange flowers. It is a woody perennial, branching shrub. Only few specimens in remote populations in the Anaga and Teno region are left in nature for overgrazing by savaged goats. They grow in more or less inaccessible, rocky spots with profound soils in the upper succulent shrub in the northern parts of Tenerife. Plants usually will go semi-dormant in summer when they will shed most of their leaves. At flowering time by the end of summer, adult plants are covered with several flowers at a more or less leaf-less stage. With decreasing temperatures in autumn and winter plants will start new growth. Keep slightly drier and preferably rather cool at a minimum of some 10°C in full sun in winter. A very long lived species. Seeds of this species is very, very scarce as plants in cultivation rarely set seeds, even if they flower in abundance in late summer. VIII-XI.5 (five) viable seeds per package.
Note: In order to receive viable seeds in cultivation, plants raised from the two genetic lines offered here (if available at the same time) shall be cross-pollinated.
Genetic line 1: Teno population
Genetic line 2: Anaga population
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