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Periploca sepium

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

Bunge

Common Names

• Chinese Silk Vine
• Gang liu (Pinyin)

Geographical Habitats

• N. China
• Russian Far East

Natural Habitats

• Forest edges
• montane areas
• hedges

Flowering Times

• May-Jun (China)

Fruiting Times

• Jun-Jul (China)

Deciduous scandent shrub with lateral 3-flowered cymes or panicles of fragrant 20mm purplish & villous inside, greenish outside flowers, twin seed-pods twisted to 150mm long, tips joined, twiner, glabrous leaves

Further References

• Rehder 1934
• Bean 1950
• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• FOC
• GWC 1997
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• Kew