Trumpet tabs
The trumpet tongues (Salpiglossis) are a genus of the nightshade family (Solanaceae).
Description
Trumpet tongues are annual or perennial herbaceous plants or shrubs that can reach a height of 0.3 to 1 m. The entire plant is equipped with a thick, sticky hair.
The basal leaves form a rosette, and sometimes can be up to 4-7 cm long, sometimes reaching a length of only 0.2 to 1.5 cm. The leaves are ovate-elliptic, oblong-elliptic or linear-elliptic, are sessile or possess only short petioles. The leaf margin is entire, sinuate-toothed, or sometimes pinnatifid fiederlappig.
The flowers are in panicles or separately growing, almost sessile or 1-2 cm flower stems located, odorless (S. sinuata) or slightly fragrant (S. spinescens). Usually the flowers are offenblütig, sometimes they are also closed, and even stimulating.
The calyx is bell-shaped, but somewhat further to 0.7 to 1 cm long, five-lobed, the lobes of equal length, triangular or oblong. The offenblütigen flowers have a funnel-shaped at the base cylindrical zygomorph crown from 2.3 to 5 cm long, flaring petals, whose edge is notched slightly. The closed flowers have a shorter crown of only 10-11 mm in length.
The capsule fruits are elongated ovoid, 9-15 mm long and dominate the cup only slightly or are even smaller. In each fruit are usually 50-120 seeds, sometimes even up to 300.
Source: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trompetenzungen
See Also: International Flower Delivery, Florist