Recently flowering in the woodland garden at JLBG is another hardy gesneriad, the Chinese Lysionotus wilsonii. This gems hails from 2,000-6,000′ elevation in China’s Yunnan and Sichuan province, where it’s found in woodland valleys. That’s near the minimum elevational range at which we’d expect winter hardiness in Zone 7b/8a, so we are thrilled that it has survived for over two years.
Can this be successfully inter-generically crossed with Hemiboea?
That’s a great question. Many intergeneric crosses are possible in the family, so we just need someone to try. You would probably need to save pollen, since the flowering times don’t match.