Lobelia telekii ‘Mt. Elgon’ seeds grow into a Mt. Elgon form of Teleki’s Lobelia a giant perennial herb from the subalpine biome of Mount Elgon (Kenya/Uganda border) and the East African Afroalpine zone. Named after Samuel Teleki de Szk (18451916), Austro-Hungarian explorer who led the expedition that first reached the northern Kenya lakes and whose team collected this plant. ‘Mt. Elgon’ indicates the population from Mount Elgon specifically. Produces one of the most spectacular Afroalpine flower spikes a tall, dense, cylindrical spike of densely packed blue flowers to 3 m or more. Family Campanulaceae.
Full sun; moist, well-drained high-altitude soils; cool to cold subalpine conditions of Mt. Elgon.
Lobelia telekii ‘Mt. Elgon’ honours Samuel Teleki de Szk the Austro-Hungarian explorer whose East African expedition reached the northern Kenya lakes and collected specimens that gave this magnificent giant Lobelia its name, a towering Afroalpine plant of one of the most botanically remarkable extinct volcanic massifs of East Africa.
IMPORTANT: Pictures show the adult plant, which is not for sale. The offer is only for seeds.
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