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Beaumontia grandiflora

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(Roxburgh) Wallich

Hardiness Zone

Min5C 10-11

Offspring

Beaumontia grandiflora var. superba

Common Names

• Easter Lily Vine
• Herald's Trumpet
• Moonflower
• Moonvine
• Easter-herald's-trumpet
• Qing ming hua (Pinyin)
• La-pan (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Bhutan
• SW. Guangxi
• S. Yunnan
• Xinjiang - China
• Assam
• West Bengal - India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Humid forest & scrub
• montane forest
• riversides

Flowering Times

• Jun (India)

Fruiting Times

Vigorous evergreen woody twining liana with leaves downy beneath 360mm x 210mm. subterminal or axillary cymes to 250mm of 130-200mm long scented white or cream flowers, tube 130mm, lobes to 40mm, back of lobes reddish-purple, calyx downy, 5 sepals 40mm x 15mm with tube 3mm long, 5 petals 35mm x 40mm with tube 100mm x 6mm. Glabrous green fruit 400mm long x 75mm wide paired follicles.

Young branches used for rope, roots & leaves have medicinal uses, Grown as ornamental

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• Mobot
• RHS A-Z
• Llamas 2003
• Bodkin
• Exotica
• FOC
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• USNH
• Botanicus
• F Indochine
• Kew