Botany

Fabiana imbricata

Fabiana imbricata, vernacular names pichi, palo piche, or false heath, is a species of flowering plant in the family Solanaceae. It is native to dry upland slopes in the foothills of the southern Andes of Chile and Argentina. Growing to 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) tall and wide, it is a frost-hardy, heath-like evergreen mound-forming shrub. It has needle-like leaves and small white, tubular flowers in early summer. The upright form F. imbricata f. violacea, of horticultural origin, bears masses of pale violet flowers. It has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.

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• ▸Dillwynia retorta
• ▸Franco Luambo
• ▸Apteranthes munbyana

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