Just to keep things straight, I didn't say that there was more than one type of Leonotis in the photos; I was referring to the fact that there are two types of Leonotis that have similar flowers and that the leaf shape helps with the identification. Guess I could have worded it better but I only see one type of Leonotis in putitupmike's pictures. The heart-shaped leaves in his pictures are clearly attached to a different plant.
I grow the heart-shaped annual type Leonotis in my garden, and when I was researching I found so much misinformation and misidentified photos all over the internet; they seem to use the names 'Lion's Ear' and 'Lion's Tail' interchangeably in error. For an identification of this type of plant it would be good to see photos of the lower leaves as well as the upper leaves and that is visible in putitupmike's pictures.
(Now I am secretly hoping that he will be saving seeds and offering to trade them for postage!)
Hint, hint:
http://garden.org/ideas/view/g...
