Oxypetalum coeruleum
ζ*Oxypetalum caeruleum (D. Don) Decne. ζ*, tweedia, has been collected wild at Ashburton, Canterbury, where it appeared spontaneously after manure was brought in for a garden. It is commonly cultivated in N.Z. and seedlings sometimes appear in open places around the parents. An herbaceous perennial with rather weak and flexuous stems to c. 40 cm high; lvs lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, tomentulose, with cordate or cordate-hastate base; fls in upper axils, erect, rotate; corolla c. 2 cm diam., fleshy, blue, paler beneath; lobes tomentulose beneath; corona of 5 erect scales with recurved apices, deeper blue than corolla; follicles ± fusiform, 9-10 cm long, tomentulose. (S. Brazil, Uruguay, 1988).
