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Antigonon guatimalense

Botanic Family

Polygonaceae

Author

Meissner

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C,ornamental

Hardiness Zone

10 8-11

Common Names

• Colación
• Confite
• San Andrés
• Bellisima
• Chain-of-love
• Coralillo Grande
• Rosa de Montaña
• Coral Vine

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• El Savador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• hedges

Flowering Times

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Fruiting Times

• Feb
• Aug

Semi-deciduous slightly woody large tendril climber with angular puberulent stems. Leaves to 90mm long, leaves pubescent above, tomentose or glabrate beneath. 32mm long white or pink flowers in axillary racemes to 200mm long or terminal panicles, puberulent sepals to 10mm long. Pink or brown fruit an achene faintly 3-angled to 12mm long

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• Llamas 2003
• Zuchowski
• The Plant List 2
• NYBG
• VOPR
• FOG