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Cavendishia tarapotana

Botanic Family
Ericaceae
Author
(Meissner) Bentham & Hooker f.

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Fruiting Times

Scandent hemi-epiphytic shrub to 9m with glabrous striate stems. Coriaceous mostly glabrous leaves to 200mm x 100mm with revolute margins. Axillary racemes of 5-25 flowers, racemes to 70mm long with dark pink to dark red floral bracts to 53mm x 35mm, calyx to 11.5mm long with lobes to2.5mm x 4.2mm, white corolla with bright red band at throat to 40mm x 10mm & white lobes to 1mm. Berry 13mm diameter.

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