Sinningia sellovii
A tuberous gesneriad from southern Brazil, Paraguay, northeastern Argentina and Bolivia that sends up tall leafy stems topped with nodding tubular red to orange flowers. It grows warm and bright in summer, then dies back to its tuber through the cooler, drier winter, so treat it as a seasonal grower rather than a year-round foliage plant.
Where it grows wild
Grows on rocky slopes, forest edges and open scrub in the Paraná and Atlantic forest region, where the tuber sits in well-drained soil among rocks. Conditions here come from the measured sites plus what is known for tuberous Sinningia.
Recorded from 137 to 2140 m, mostly around 550 m; the higher Bolivian records will see cooler nights.
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