Agapetes (Gk. ἀγαπητός (agapetos) = 'beloved') [1] is a semi-climbing shrub genus native to the Himalayas, grown as an ornamental for its attractive pendulous bunches of red tubular flowers blooming over a long period. It is mostly grown in climates from cool temperate to sub-tropical. Propagation is from cuttings. As of 2018, The Plant List listed 245 species names published in Agapetes, of which 147 were accepted.[2]
In the UK, the cultivar 'Ludgvan Cross' has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[3]
^Don, George (1834). "A General History of the Dichlamydeous Plants, Comprising Complete Descriptions of the Different Orders; Together with the Characters of the Genera and Species, and an Enumeration of the Cultivated Varieties; Their Places of Growth, Time of Flowering, Mode of Culture, and Uses in Medicine and Domestic Economy; the Scientific Names Accentuated, Their Etymologies Explained, and the Classes and Orders Illustrated by Engravings, and Preceded by Introductions to the Linnaean and Natural Systems, and a Glossary of the Terms Used: 3: Calyciflorae".
^"Species in Agapetes". Retrieved 2018-05-13.
^"RHS Plantfinder – Agapetes 'Ludgvan Cross'". Retrieved 5 January 2018.
Sleumer transferred it to the genus, Agapetes, to give the species its currently accepted name of Agapetes serpens. "Agapetes serpens (Wight) Sleumer | Plants...
monophyletic. A number of the Asian species are more closely related to Agapetes than to other Vaccinium species. A second group includes most of Orthaea...
is a plant in the Ericaceae family. It was first described in 1887 as Agapetes meiniana by Ferdinand von Mueller. In 1918 Rudolf Schlechter transferred...
this person as the author when citing a botanical name. Agapetes kanjilali Das (1935). Agapetes racemosa Watt ex Kanjilal & Das (1939). Dipterocarpus mannii...
Vulnerable TN Elaeocarpus venustus Elaeocarpaceae V Vulnerable KL, TN Agapetes nuttallii Ericaceae I AR Rhododendron concinnoides Ericaceae E AR Rhododendron...
History of the Dichlamydeous Plants. Vol. 3. London: J.G. and F. Rivington. Agapetes, p. 862 Agarista, p. 788 Smith, William Wright (1911). "Some additions...
Canarina eminii (Campanulacea), Impatiens sakeriana (Balasaminaceae), and Agapetes spp (Ericaceae) are similar in morphology to flowers with nectar from the...
Mueller published many of his first descriptions in this journal, including Agapetes meiniana, Oldenlandia psychotrioides, Morinda hypotephra, Phyllanthus hypospodius...
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