BILBERGIA NUTANS
This Australian plant is an excellent subject for a pot or tub, the spiky foliage and bright rose-pink bracts making a very effective display in early summer.
The plants may be grown outdoors in the open ground and do quite well in warm" localities in semishady positions. They like a fairly light soil. The inflorescences are most unusual. The stalks are rose-pink with bracts of the same colour which open like the feathers on a cockatoo's head. The flowers are suspended from the extremity of the stalk in clusters, hanging like small fuchsias. The colours are remarkable, being green margined with deep navy blue and the long stamens are bright yellow.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 26
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113BILBERGIA NUTANS Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 102, 27 October 1938, Page 26
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