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Canarina eminii is a glaucous, climbing or hanging herb in the bellflower family, found epiphytically or among rocks at high altitude in East and Central Africa. Grow it cool and bright with good drainage, treating it as a high-altitude plant rather than a typical tropical one.
Canarina eminii is a species of flowering plant in the family Campanulaceae. It is an epiphytic or terrestrial, usually glaucous, herb. Its root is thick, often with a corky surface layer. Its stems are erect and scandent, pendent up to several meters in length, usually with a fine purplish mottling. Its leaves are triangular to ovate, up to 10 cm (3.9 in) long, acute with cordate to cuneate base, dentate, double dentate or double serrate. Its corollas are funnel-shaped to 7.5 cm (3.0 in) long, orange to orange-red with darker venation.
It is found in upland and riverine forest, epiphytic or among rocks; altitude range 1,600–3,200 m (5,200–10,500 ft). Very similar to C. abyssinica which is not epiphytic and has a slightly lower altitude range. It also lacks the purplish mottling of C. eminii and the leaves are triangular to pentagonal. Kenya: Keiyo, recorded in Elgon, Cheranganis, Tinderet, Mau, the Aberdares and Mount Kenya. Tanzania: recorded in Rungwe, Kiwira Forest. Uganda: recorded in Imatong Mountains and Mbale. Also recorded in Ethiopia, eastern Congo, Rwanda, Burundi and Malawi.
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Canarina eminii by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
