Streptosolen jamesonii
Name: unresolved; Streptosolen jamesonii?
English: Fire bush; Marmalade bush; Orange Browallia; Yellow Heliotrope.
Spanish: Flor de quinde, = hummingbird flower; Flor del sol, = flower of the sun; Jaboncillo, = little soap plant.
Genus: 1 species.
Ecuador: Nacha; Agua de oro, = water of gold; Quizcho de bosque.
Content: nornicotine; nicotine; anabasine, an insecticide.
Region: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru.
Habitat: open woodlands.
Botany
Evergreen shrub.
Inflorescence: loose clusters of flowers.
Flowers: from yellow to red as they develop, resembling orange marmalade; lack of a strong scent; copious nectar.
Pollination: by birds, Chlorostilbon poortmani, the short-tailed emerald.