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Aristolochia tomentosa

Botanic Family

Aristolochiaceae

Author

Sims

Propagation

C.L.S.

Cultivated

C

Common Names

• Dutchman's Pipe
• Pipe Vine

Geographical Habitats

• Alabama
• Arkansas
• Connecticut
• Florida
• Georgia
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Mississippi
• Missouri
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Oklahoma
• South Carolina
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Vermont
• Wisconsin - USA

Natural Habitats

• Woods
• riverside
• creekside

Flowering Times

• May
• Jun Summer

Fruiting Times

• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Nov

Twining high-climbing shrubby vine with woody stems to 10m. Tomentose leaves to 180mm long, white-pubescent beneath. Tomentose 40mm purple, yellow & green flowers, yellowish calyx abruptly bent with 3-lobed greenish-purple limb dark brown in centre glabrous inside. Fruit to 60mm long.

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• GWC 1997
• The Plant List 2
• USDA
• JAA
• FOSEUS
• Gleason & Moldenke