Accession #: 199100114
Accession Date: 1991-12-31
Common name: Winter Apple
Family: Scrophulariaceae
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Country of Origin: Australia
Description: Low shrub, to 3 feet high and 4 feet across, branches trailing, shoots glandular-tuberculed; leaves lanceolate to narrow-oblong, to 4 inches long, sparsely toothed, short-petioled; flowers 1 or 2 in leaf axils, pink, calyx lobes broadly ovate, corolla about 5/16 inches across, bearded inside; fruit ovoid, flattened, 1/2 inch wide, rose-colored, edible.
Useful for rock gardens and banks
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USDA Zone: 8-11
Source: Smith Col.
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