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Michauxia campanuloides

Michauxia campanuloides

$9.00 NZD
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Numerous curious, lantern-like buds open into a huge candelabra of branching stems holding fantastic, pure white, passion-flower-like blooms, beginning in early summer and continuing until February if dead-headed. One of the world's most astonishing and spectacular flowers, this arrestingly beautiful plant is actually easy to grow either as a biennial or as a short-lived perennial. An unusual member of the Campanula family, it is native to Lebanon and Israel,yet it is hardy enough for our gardens. The genus Michauxia beings named after King Louis XVI of France’s royal botanist, Andreas Michaux, who travelled to America during the late 1700’s in search of ornamental plants in the New World. 
Very reflexed 5cm white petals, hard to grow. Sun and drainage, 90- 120cm.  Only a few.  Save seed, ideally sow individually to avoid excessive root disturbance. 
 
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