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Jacquemontia pentanthos
Jacquemontia pentanthos
- Botanic Family
- Convolvulaceae
- Author
- (Jacquin) G. Don
- Propagation
- S.
- Hardiness Zone
- Min13C 10-11
Common Names
- Aguinaldo azul
- Clashie-melanie
- Liane bleue (Guadeloupe)
- Calalou à dah (Guadeloupe)
- Liseron Bleu (Martinique)
- Skyblue Clustervine
Geographical Habitats
- Argentina
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bolivia
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- French Guiana
- Guatemala
- Guyana
- Hispaniola
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Leeward Islands
- S. Mexico
- Netherlands Antilles
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Puerto Rico
- Trinidad & Tobago
- Florida
- Virgin Islands - U.S.A
- Venezuela
- Venezuelan Antilles
- Windward Islands
Natural Habitats
- Disturbed areas
- secondary vegetation
- shrubland
- wasteland
- coastal
- riverside
- thicket
- forest margins
- coastal thickets
- coastal forests
- montane areas
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Perennial grey-hoary herbaceous slender slightly woody glabrous or downy ferrugineus-stemmed tomentose twining liana. White-hairy leaves to 80mm x 35mm, stem, peduncles, petioles, nerves & margins of leaves downy. Few-many-flowered axillary fascicles, umbels or cymes with bracts to 10mm or more, of 40mm wide lilac-blue or bright blue flowers with white centres or stripes in many-flowered cymes, glabrescent exterior sepals to 8mm x 5mm, 2 inner sepals 4mm x 2mm, blue corolla with white star to 25mm x 10mm. Brown 8-valved capsule to 6mm long with persistent sepals.
Naturalised in some areas
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Herklots 1976
- Mobot
- FOH
- RHS A-Z
- NYBG
- Llamas 2003
- Neotrop
- FB
- G. Don
- The Plant List 2
- VOPR
- Botanicus
- JAA
- USDA
- FOSEUS
- FOPE
- SAFIO
- Kew
- Standley