
Gesneria citrina Urban (Common names: yerba Puerto Rico de cueva). The flowers are simple, tubular, elongated, yellow or orange-yellow color on a long thin dark stems. The leaves are green, large, elongated, glossy with irregular wavy edges. Stems erect, smooth compact rosette, spectacular bloom. Natural species from a shady humid forests of North-Eastern and North-Western regions of Puerto Rico, is known at home by the popular name "yerba Puerto Rico de cueva". In nature it is a perennial low-growing evergreen shrubs, adult specimens are small and do not exceed a height of 40 cm, grows on limestone rocks in partially shaded areas, are pollinated exclusively by hummingbirds.
Forms of this species:
Gesneria citrina
Gesneria citrina hybrid
Gesneria (christii x citrina) x self