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Bignonia magnifica

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

W. Bull

Propagation

C.S.

Cultivated

C, ornamental

Hardiness Zone

Min10C 10-11

Common Names

• Palo Negro
• Saritea
• Purple Bignonia
• Campanillo

Geographical Habitats

• Colombia
• Ecuador
• Panama
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

Flowering Times

• All year

Fruiting Times

Simple tendril evergreen shrubby liana. 2-foliolate leaves minutely lepidote above, sparsely lepidote beneath, coriaceous leaflets to 120mm x 60mm with long terminal tendril. Ffew-flowered terminal panicles of 90mm long pale purple to pink flowers streaked purple with yellow to white markings inside, lobes to 31mm long,calyx to 12mm x 7mm, corolla to 90mm. Brown capsule to 325mm long.

Weed

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• RHS A-Z
• NYBG
• Mobot
• Llamas 2003
• The Plant List 2
• VOPR
• GBS
• Exotica
• Kew