Common name: Slipper Flower, Slipperwort, Gold Purse
Botanical name: Calceolaria mexicana Family: Scrophulariaceae (Dog flower family)
Native to Mexico, Slipper Flower is a small and showy annual with divided
leaves and spikes of puffy, pale yellow flowers. It makes a very
multi-branching plant with the brightest lemon-drop little yellow "balloons"
evenly spaced throughout the fresh green foliage. Leaves are narrow
lance-like, deeply lobed. The generic name is derived from
Calceolarius, meaning shoemaker in Latin and describes the flowers,
whose shape of the lower lip reminds people of a lady slipper. This plant has
escaped cultivation in some places in India, and can be seen growing wild.
Flowering: October-December.
Identification credit: Arittha Wikramanayake
| Photographed in Munnar, Kerala. |
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