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Columnea hirta

Columnea hirta
Photo: Guérin Nicolas (messages), CC BY-SA 3.0
Family
Gesneriaceae (African violet family)
Grows as
Shrub, Epiphyte
Native range
Mexico (Oaxaca, Chiapas) to C. America
Climate
wet tropical

About

Columnea hirta is a species of flowering plants in the genus Columnea. They are endemic to Costa Rica and Panama but are widely cultivated as an ornamental.

Where it grows

Columnea hirta is epiphytic. They are endemic to Costa Rica and Panama but are widely cultivated as an ornamental.

Other Columnea plants

Tibey de cresta · Blood Of Christ · Columnea crassifolia · Hispaniolan Goldfish Plant · Columnea flexiflora · Columnea florida · Columnea glabra · Goldfish Plant Or Orange Columnea · Columnea linearis · Goldfish Plant Or Orange Columnea · Columnea microphylla · Columnea minor

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Columnea hirta by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

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.

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