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Nemesia strumosa
Also called Cape Jewels, Pouch Nemesia, Jewel Lionface
Nemesia strumosa is a bushy annual from South Africa's southwestern Cape, grown for its bright, often bicoloured flowers in beds, borders and containers. It grows best as a cool-weather annual, and most garden plants are hybrids.
Nemesia strumosa, Cape jewels or pouch nemesia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae, native to the southwestern Cape Provinces of South Africa. Suited for garden applications such as beds, borders, rock gardens and containers, its cultivars (many of which are actually hybrids with Nemesia versicolor) come in a wide variety of flower colours, including bicoloured. When grown as a cool‑weather annual it can be planted in USDA zones 2 through 10.
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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.
