The flowers are tubular, 3 inches (7.6 cm) long, and have 5 oval lobes. The slender flower buds are pink and held upright. The flowers are followed by distinctive fruit, a pair of 5 inch (13 cm) long, slender follicles covered in red fuzz. The leaves are green, covered in minute hairs, opposite, and oval to rounded in shape.

Santa Catalina Mountains.
Catalina Highway
Location: 10 feet above road at top of cliff at 6.5 mile mark.
8/28/16, 7/11/18

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