Slipper Flower
By LoveToKnow
Slipper Flower (Calceolaria) - Handsome herbs or low shrubs of the Foxglove order, mostly from S. America, many of high garden value, but few hardy.
Slipper flower, slipperwort, pouch flower
Calceolaria x herbeohybrida, Calceolaria herbeohybrida
Plants of Home and Garden ...
Calceolaria herbeohybrida (Pouch flower, Slipper flower, Slipperwort, Pocket book flower, Family: Scrophulariaceae)
Callerya atropurpurea, Millettia atropurpurea (Tulang Daing, Purple Milletia, Family: Faboideae / Leguminosae / Papilionaceae) ...
From mid-June to July, the stems are topped with small, but exquisite slipper flowers...white sepals at the top with a pink slipper attached below. In time, Cypripedium reginae will develop into quite a large clump.
The names "Pocketbook Flower" & "Purse Flowers" are pretty much self-explanatory, as also the alternative name "Slipper Flower." Inside each puffy pocketbook is a dusting of red freckles.
Pocketbook Plant gets its name from the puffy, brightly colored flowers that look like pouches or slippers. Other common names for this unusual-looking plant are Slipper Flower and Slipperwort.
Cineraria (Senecio cruentus)
Croton (Codaieum varieties)
Flame Nettle (Kalanchoe blossfeldiano)
Geranium (Pelargonium hortorun)
Gloxinia (Sinningia speciosa)
Slipper Flower (Calceolaria herbeohybrids) ...
White Slipper Flower [English]: Calceolaria alba
White Small Leaf Poincettia [English]: Euphorbia leucocephala
White Smallflower Pointloco [English]: Oxytropis campestris campestris
White Smallflower Pointloco [English]: Spiesia campestris ...
 See also: Calceolaria, Green, May, Lady, Orchid
  
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