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Podranea ricasoliana
Podranea ricasoliana
- Botanic Family
- Bignoniaceae
- Author
- (Tanfani) T. Sprague
- Propagation
- C.L.S.
- Cultivated
- C, ornamental
Common Names
- Podranea
- Ricasol Podranea
- Port St John Climber
- Pink Trumpet Vine
- Port St John Creeper
- Pink Tecoma
- Pink Bignonia
- Sete Leguas
- Bubble-gum Vine
Geographical Habitats
- Ivory Coast
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Cape Province
- Natal - South Africa
- Zaire
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Natural Habitats
Flowering Times
Fruiting Times
Vigorous evergreen glabrous twining woody liane or clambering shrub with imparipinnate glabrous leaves with 4-5 pairs of crenate leaflets to 40mm x 20mm, no tendrils. Terminal many-flowered panicles of 80mm long pink flowers striped red, 5-toothed calyx to 15mm x 8mm, corolla 50mm x 30mm, glabrous outside, corolla tube white with redish-purple lines. Coriaceous capsules to 400mm long, brown
Further References
- Menninger 1970
- Bailey 1976
- Herklots 1976
- Krussmann 1976
- van der Spuy 1976
- Beckett 1990
- Huxley 1992
- Nicholls 1995
- P & R 1997
- FONZ
- RHS A-Z
- NYBG
- Mobot
- Llamas 2003
- Bodkin
- The Plant List 2
- Fedde
- VOPR
- Kew