Evergreen shrub to 3 m tall. Leaves to 4 cm long, ovate-elliptic, pointed, entire. Flower clusters terminal. Flowers trumpet-shaped. Calyx tubular, with 3 toothlike lobes. Corolla twisted, mostly orange-yellow, occasionally yellow, more or less 2- lipped, the wide-spreading lobes darker than the tube. Fertile stamens 4. Fruit a 2- chambered capsule. [Browallia jamesonii Benth.]
Colombia, Peru
This is available as a dwarf form.
The cultivars S. 'Ginger Meggs' and S. 'New World' are listed but no information is available.
Source: (2002). Solanaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 4. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 3. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.