Auckland Botanic Gardens, Hill Road, Manurewa, Auckland
Georeferences:
Latitude and Longitude (WGS84):
-37.01137 174.907722
Verbatim locality:
Manurewa, Auckland Regional Botanic Garden
Verbatim collector:
Sykes WR 667/94
Standardised collector:
William R. Sykes
Verbatim date:
5-DEC-1994
Start date:
1994-12-05
Land District:
North Auckland Land District
Country:
New Zealand
Habitat:
Cultivated.
Notes:
Erect subshrub 50-60cm high, dense habit, very aromatic. Leaves crinkled and undulate, ± erect. Corolla very irregular; upper 2 petals c.3x1.5cm, broadly oblanceolate pink with dark crimson central veins and whitish base; lower 3 petals c.2.5x0.8cm, uniformly light pink. Cultivated as this species, but unlike the usual P. crispum in its green or variegated form as seen in New Zealnd.