Jovellana

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Jovellana' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/jovellana/). Accessed 2025-02-06.

Family

Scrophulariaceae

Species in genus

Jovellana violacea

Glossary

corolla: The inner whorl of the perianth. Composed of free or united petals often showy.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Jovellana' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/jovellana/). Accessed 2025-02-06.

This genus is perhaps best known to gardeners in the guise of the charming Jovellana violacea. Hereweka Garden, Portobello, New Zealand. 26 November 2023. Image Tom Christian.

A genus of a few species of herbs and sub-shrubs, natives of New Zealand and temperate South America, It is very closely allied to Calceolaria, but differs in its corolla, which is divided into almost equal, erect ‘lips’, with flat or only slightly inrolled margins, and thus not showing the ‘pouch’ characteristic of the true calceolarias.

The genus was named by Ruiz and Pavon in honour of C. M. de Jovellanes, a student of the flora of Peru.

Jovellana punctata is grown in milder districts, such as here at Hereweka Garden, Portobello, New Zealand. 26 November 2023. Image Tom Christian.

Jovellana sinclairii, from a plant at Tregrehan Garden, UK (23 September 2019). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Jovellana punctata, taken from a plant at De Geesthof, collection of Kees and Lida van Gaal, The Netherlands (10 August 2019). Image © Jan De Langhe - Arboretum Wespelaar.

Jovellana violacea at Inverewe Garden, NW Scotland. 16 June 2005. Image John Anderson.