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Bignonia binata

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

Thunberg

Propagation

C.L.S.

Common Names

• Love Charm
• Purple Bignonia

Geographical Habitats

• NE. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Amapá
• Amazonas
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Grosso do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraná
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Roraima
• Santa Catarina
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• El Salvador
• French Guiana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Uruguay
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Riverine forest
• seasonally inundated areas
• coastal

Flowering Times

• Aug (Bolivia)
• Apr (Guatemala)

Fruiting Times

• Mar
• Aug
• Jul
• Dec

Evergreen mostly glabrous twining liana or treelet with simple to trifid tendrils & lenticellate branches. Glabrous coriaceous leaves with leaflets to 150mm x 65mm. Axillary or terminal fascicles or panicles with bracts & bractlets to 7mm long. Aromatic 85mm long mauve or purple flowers to almost white outside & on lobes inside with white throat with, 5-toothed calyx to 8mm x 7mm, mauve corolla to 65mm long with tube to 25mm+ long, lobes to 50mm x 30mm, longitudinal nectar guide lines inside with white eye, minutely hairy inside. Bristly woody capsule to 210mm x 12mm

Further References

• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• NYBG
• NHN
• Neotrop
• Bodkin
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• Fedde
• FOPE
• Kew
• CPLC