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Lophospermum erubescens

Botanic Family

Plantaginaceae

Author

D. Don

Common Names

• Climbing Lophospermum
• Creeping Gloxinia
• Larger Roving Sailor
• Mijo del Sol

Geographical Habitats

• Costa Rica
• Colombia
• S. Mexico

Natural Habitats

• Scrub

Flowering Times

• Apr
• Jun
• Sep Summer & Autumn

Fruiting Times

Perennial hairy herb with twining petioles or climbing shrub, 75mm solitary axillary white-throated hairy pink trumpet flowers pubescent outside, tube whitish beneath with twining petiole, green sepals, 23mm wide downy seed capsules containing winged seeds. Twining leaf & flower stalks, densely pubescent leaves, branches with viscid hairs, 5-lobed downy mucronate deeply serrated leaves

Further References

• E & M 1970
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• Mobot
• FONZ
• FOH
• RHS A-Z
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• VOPR
• Botanicus
• Exotica