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Cardiospermum grandiflorum
Cardiospermum grandiflorum
- Botanic Family
- Sapindaceae
- Author
- Swartz
- Propagation
- S.
- Cultivated
- C, ornamental
Common Names
- Heartseed
- Balloon Vine
- Tronadora (Mexico)
- Heartseed Vine
- Chimbolillo (Costa Rica)
Geographical Habitats
- Angola
- N. Argentina
- Belize
- Benin
- Bolivia
- Botswana
- Brazil
- Cameroon
- Central African Republic
- Colombia
- Congo
- Costa Rica
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Ghana
- Guatemala
- Guinea
- Guyana
- Honduras
- Ivory Coast
- Jamaica
- Kenya
- Liberia
- Malawi
- Mexico
- Namibia
- Nicaragua
- Nigeria
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Sierra Leone
- Cape Provinces
- Natal
- Northern Provinces - South Africa
- Sudan
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Uganda
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- forest
- gallery forest
- thickets
- hedgerows
- shrubland
- montane areas
- savanna.
Flowering Times
- Jan
- Feb
- Mar
- Apr
- May
- Jun
- Jul
- Aug
- Sep
- Nov
- Dec
Fruiting Times
Perennial high-climbing twining herbaceous or slightly woody tendril liana with paired tendrils, grey-hairy 5-6 ridged stems. Biternate or triternate leaves puberulent to almost glabrous above, densely pubescent to tomentose beneath, serrated leaflets, terminal leaflet to 82mm x 45mm, lateral leaflets to 55mm x 25mm. Fragrant 10mm x 11mm cream or white flowers in axillary panicles or thyrses, sometimes flushed crimson outside, 4 sepals 5mm x 4mm , white petals yellow-tipped to 10mm long. Nearly glabrous or tomentose bladdery green fruit 70mm x 35mm.
Naturalised in some areas, a known weed
Cultivated as an ornamental, environmental uses, food, materials, medicinal, social
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Huxley 1992
- Nicholls 1995
- Mobot
- NYBG
- FOH
- Neotrop
- FCP
- Bodkin
- FB
- Botanicus
- Jstor
- The Plant List 2
- FOG
- VOPR
- FOTA
- FOPE
- Morales