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Aristolochia grandiflora

Botanic Family

Aristolochiaceae

Author

Swartz

Propagation

C.L.S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Hardiness Zone

10C 10-11

Common Names

• Swan Flower
• Pelican Flower
• Duck Flower
• Guaco
• Flor de Pato
• Chompipe
• Charmpipe
• Gueguecho
• Bejuco Estrella
• Dutchman's Pipe
• Aristoloquia
• Alena Sili (Ecuador)
• Betia Olorosa (Ecuador)

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Colombia
• Costa Ric
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Jamaica
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Trinidad & Tobago

Natural Habitats

• Forests

Flowering Times

• Apr
• Dec (Colombia) Jun
• Aug (Costa Rica) Feb
• Mar (El Salvador)

Fruiting Times

• Jun (Colombia)

Vigorous perennial glabrescent evergreen woody twiner to 8m. Heart-shaped leaves glabrous above, puberulent beneath to 265mm x 220mm. 500mm solitary cream pendent flowers mottled deep maroon with a tail-like appendage sometimes reaching 3m, utricle to 35mm, tube to 130mm, foetid odour, calyx to 200mm long. Capsule with 5 longitudinal ribs maturing brown to 155mm x 45mm.

Naturalised in some areas. Roots are poisonous

Medicinal, witchcraft

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Huxley 1992
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• Llamas 2003
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• Exotica
• FOG
• Standley
• Mobot