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Rhodochiton atrosanguineum

Botanic Family

Plantaginaceae

Author

(Zuccarini) Rothmaler

Common Names

• Purple Bells

Geographical Habitats

• Oaxaca - Mexico

Natural Habitats

• Cool rainforest

Flowering Times

• Late summer-autumn May- Aug (Mexico)

Fruiting Times

• Autumn

Hairy climbing shrub, twining by leaf stalks, flowers 65mm purple-red calyx & purple-black corolla with white hairs, with pink or mauve calices, leaves purple beneath, coarsely serrated leaves slimy to touch & purple beneath

Further References

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