The native Peruvian vernacular name for Cantua buxifolia.

Evergreen perennial small trees or shrubs. Leaves simple, alternate, short-stalked. Flowers solitary or mostly in terminal flat clusters. Calyx 5-lobed. Corolla long-tubular, to about 7-8 cm long, with 5 short lobes. Stamens 5, united at the base of the tube. Fruit a leathery, many-seeded capsule.

Usually grown as C. buxifolia in warmer climates and on sandy soils for the spectacular electric pinkish red flowers.

Seed or semi-hardwood cuttings.

Long, tubular, pendulous, often vivid magenta flowers.

6 species from mostly montane (Andean) Chile, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Polemoniaceae. In: Spencer, R.. 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.