Showing posts with label stelis glomerosa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stelis glomerosa. Show all posts

Monday, June 18, 2012

Stelis glomerosa 'Lucille'

Stelis glomerosa (the name "glomerosa" refers to the ball-shaped flowers), is from Ecuador and belongs to a huge genus of plants whose flowers are often very similar and very small and undistinguished.  This species is different in having larger flowers with a very distinctive shape.  My plant is 5 cm tall, but seems to be getting larger.  It tends to ramble and produce new growths that come from the top of the previous growths, making it impossible to contain in a pot.  The flower spikes reach 10-15 cm and the flowers are slighting more than .5 cm in size.