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Solandra maxima

Botanic Family

Solanaceae

Author

(Sessé & Moçiño) P. S. Green

Cultivated

C,ornamental

Hardiness Zone

Min7C 9-11

Conservation Status

Vulnerable/near threatened

Common Names

• Cup of Gold
• Golden Chalice
• Copa de Oro
• Chalice Vine
• Milk Cup
• Trumpet Cup

Geographical Habitats

• Belize
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• El Salvador
• Guatemala
• Honduras
• Mexico
• Nicaragua
• Panama

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• moist forest

Flowering Times

• Sep-Jan (Mexico
• Nicaragua)

Fruiting Times

• Sep-Jan (Nicaragua)

Hemi-epiphytic evergreen rampant woody climber, tree or shrub. Glabrous leaves to 150mm x 95mm with revolute edges. Terminal, normally solitary, or up to 3 fragrant 250mm long, 200mm wide goblet-shaped yellowish-white flowers with purplish-brown stripes, stripes green outside, tube 6-7 angled, purple petioles with a few hairs, calyx to 70mm long. Fruit a berry to70mm x 100mm.

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Bailey 1976
• Herklots 1976
• Krussmann 1976
• van der Spuy 1976
• Beckett 1990
• Huxley 1992
• Nicholls 1995
• P & R 1997
• RHS A-Z
• Mobot
• Llamas 2003
• Bodkin
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• Botanicus
• UC Chiapas