'' Phygelius aequalis'' is a species of flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae,

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to South Africa. It is a semi- evergreen

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growing to tall and wide, with long panicles of pink flowers with crimson lobes and yellow throats. This species may be distinguished from the closely related ''

Phygelius capensis ''Phygelius capensis'', the cape figwort or cape fuchsia, is a species of flowering plant in the family Scrophulariaceae, native to South Africa. Description It is a semi- evergreen shrub growing to tall by wide. The oval leaves are up to . ...

'' by the fact that the flowers grow in a single plane along one side of the stem. The narrowly tubular flowers are up to in length. The common names Cape fuchsia and Cape figwort attach to both ''P. aequalis'' and ''P. capensis'', though they are not closely related to the true fuchsias, and "figwort" refers to several plants other than phygelius. ''Phygelius aequalis'' is valued as a garden plant with a particularly long flowering season throughout summer. Though a shrub, in cooler areas it grows as a perennial. It requires some winter protection. The

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'Trewidden Pink' and 'Yellow Trumpet' have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's

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Flora of South Africa Perennial plants Scrophulariaceae Shrubs {{Scrophulariaceae-stub