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Correa 'Orange' (Orange Australian Fuchsia) - A low evergreen shrub to about 2 feet tall with a 3 foot t spread with small 1/2 long ovate shaped leaves that are dark green above and a pale gray green below. The long bell-shaped salmon-orange flowers hang down from its branches from winter through spring.
Performs best in cool coastal sun or part shade where it is moderately drought tolerant, but should be irrigated occasionally in the summer for best performance. It is seaside tolerant and is hardy to about 20 degrees F.
This plant was an old unidentified cultivar growing at the University of California Santa Cruz Arboretum but was never introduced by them. Kathy Echols of Midhill Farms in Martinez first took cuttings of the plant in the arboretum, where it was growing under the shade of a tree near the office buildings. Our guess is that it is a Correa pulchella cultivar. We offered it from 2018 until 2022.
Information displayed on this page about Correa 'Orange' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.
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