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Fridericia dichotoma

Botanic Family

Bignoniaceae

Author

(Jacquin) L.G. Lohmann

Propagation

C.S.

Hardiness Zone

Min 10C

Common Names

Geographical Habitats

• N. Argentina
• Belize
• Bolivia
• Acre
• Amazonas
• Amapá
• Bahia
• Ceará
• Goias
• Maranhão
• Mato Grosso
• Mato Gross do Sul
• Minas Gerais
• Pará
• Paraiba
• Pernambuco
• Piauí
• Rio de Janeiro
• Rio Grande
• Rio Grande do Sul
• Rondonia
• Roraima
• São Paulo - Brazil
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Ecuador
• French Guiana
• Guyana
• Honduras
• S. Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama
• Paraguay
• Peru
• Suriname
• Venezuela

Natural Habitats

• Swamp forest
• disturbed vegetation
• scrubland
• forest
• inundated areas
• lakeside

Flowering Times

• Sep-Oct (Paraguay)
• Mar (Argentina)

Fruiting Times

• Jul
• Sep-Oct (Paraguay)

Vigorous high climbing pubescent tendril liana or climbing shrub with powdery or warted striated powdery branches, simple tendrils. Coriaceous glabrous or tomentose leaves, leaflets to 100mm x 65mm. Often cauliflorous 300mm long axillary panicles or racemes with bracts and bracteoles, fragrant 50mm long purple-pink or red flowers with 15mm lobes, white inside, 5-toothed calyx 7mm x 6mm, corolla to 50mm long. Fruit a brown capsule to 300mm x 12mm

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Huxley 1992
• Mobot
• NYBG
• Neotrop
• FB
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• FOPE
• Fedde
• Kew