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Achimenes
hot water plant
Other common names
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Botanical details
- Family
- Gesneriaceae
- Native to GB / Ireland
- No
- Genus
Achimenes
- Genus description
Achimenes are rhizomatous herbaceous perennials with scaly rhizomes producing trailing stems bearing simple, opposite or whorled leaves and salver-shaped showy flowers in the leaf axils in summer and autumn
- Name status
Correct
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