1. Home
2. Periploca graeca

Periploca graeca

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Linnaeus

Common Names

• Silk Vine

Geographical Habitats

• Albania
• Bulgaria
• S. France
• Greece
• Iran
• Iraq
• Italy
• Lebanon
• Palestine
• Romania
• Syria
• Turkey
• Turkmenistan
• Uzbekistan
• Yugoslavia

Natural Habitats

• Full sun

Flowering Times

• Jul-Aug Mid & late Summer May

Fruiting Times

• Aug

Deciduous twining shrub to 9m. Corymbs or cymes of 25mm purple margined greenish-yellow flowers with unpleasant odour, brownish inside, hairy inside, seed-pods to 130mm long

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• E & M 1970
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• Huxley 1992
• RHS A-Z
• GWC 1997
• Mobot
• de Candolle
• G. Don
• The Plant List 2
• Kew