Phygelius aequalis
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Leaves opposite, stiff in texture, 1 to 4 in. long, about one-third as wide, ovate to lanceolate, bluntly toothed. Flowers quite pendulous on terminal panicles 6 to 9 in. high; corolla slender, tubular, 1 to 11⁄2 in. long, buff-pink outside, the mouth yellow with a bright red margin. On wild plants the blossoms are shorter-stalked and much more closely set on the panicles than in P. capensis, but this distinction is not shown so clearly by cultivated plants. A more important difference is that the corollas are narrower and almost straight, with the mouth of the tube quite regular and the lobes spreading only slightly; in P. capensis the corolla is curved, the mouth of the tube is oblique, and the lobes spread widely (Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 214).
It is a subshrub, woody below, more or less herbaceous above, 2 to 3 ft high, shoots quadrangular. Native of S. Africa; flowers from August to October. At Kew it is cut to the ground in most winters. Not often seen in cultivation. Lady Byng of Vimy obtained an Award of Merit for it at Vincent Square, September 15, 1936. Increased by cuttings.
'Yellow Trumpet'
Now well known in gardens, where it can be grown without the protection of a wall and attains a height of two or three feet. Distinguished by its pure, soft yellow flowers, the original plant was found on Marwaga Mountain, south-west Natal, at between 5,000 and 6,000 feet, where quite severe night frosts are frequent. The late Mrs Frances Pace established it in her garden at the foot of the mountain and gave plants to neighbours, among them Mrs Rennie of Sunset Farm, whence it was introduced by Mr Burtt to the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, in 1973. ‘Yellow Trumpet’ was named and distributed commercially by Messrs Hillier, whose stock derives from cuttings given to the late Sir Harold Hillier by the nurseryman Trevor Schofield of Natal. He had received cuttings from Mrs Taylor of Wyldeholme Farm, who had also received a plant from Mrs Pace (The Garden (Journ. R.H.S.), Vol. III, pp. 297–8 (1986)).