Rostrinucula dependens Israel Published as a new species

Published as a new species in 1985

but here is one we feel is truly special

especially if they walk into it

oblong petals surrounding a contrasting white eye etched in blue

a very cool hummingbird favorite

Rostrinucula dependens Israel Published as a new speciesOne of the truly great WHATZAT plants of the fall garden, that results in more questions than anything else is Rostrinucula dependens. Little known outside its native haunts in Shaanxi, China and south to Yunnan, this deciduous shrub to 4' tall is adorned with flaking brown bark and acts as a dieback perennial in the northern parts of its hardiness zone. It remains obscure until late summer and into early fall, when the long pendent, branched flower