Description
(H. texanus, cupreus)
This is a widespread plant in the wild, a native of Argentina which is also found in Chile and Peru and the SE USA (having been probably spread there by missionaries) although the US plant which we offer is said to be quite distinct.
Narrow leaves and copper coloured buds which open to strong orange-yellow flowers. These are produced in a flush when the plant is re-watered after its dry summer rest, but they also appear sporadically throughout the year, whenever the plant is kept on the dry side and then heavily watered – you may not even realise that you have done this until a flower pops up!
An easy going species which makes a dependable display each year. Needs to be under frost-free glass in the UK however any fertile, well-drained soil seems suitable.
After some problems with commercial stocks we now offer a seed-raised stock, from our own mother plants of documented Texan origins (which would make it Habranthus tubispathus texanus if that name were valid) which is true to name.
