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Telosma cordata

Botanic Family

Apocynaceae

Author

(N.L. Burman) Merrill

Common Names

• Chinese Violet
• Tonkin Creeper
• Primrose Creeper
• Cowslip Creeper
• West Coast Creeper
• Siamese Flower
• Tonkin Flower
• Tonkin Jasmine
• Ye Heung
• Ye lai xiang (Pinyin)
• Mil-leguas (Thousand leagues Guam
• Philippines) Liane Tonquin (Mauritius) Malati Tunkat (Java)
• His Dok Dua (Laos)
• West Coast Creeper
• Dauk-salat (Myanmar)
• Tonki (Malaya)
• Day thiên lý (Vietnam)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Cambodia
• Guangdong
• Guangxi - China
• Kashmir - India
• Indonesia
• Japan
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Pakistan
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Woodland
• bushland.

Flowering Times

• May-Oct (China)

Fruiting Times

• Oct-Dec (China)

Twining liana or subshrub with pubescent stems when young, 25mm very fragrant yellow-green or orange flowers in axillary cymes or umbels to 30 flowers, calyx with glabrescent lobes, corolla tube to 10mm hairy outside & inside, glabrous lobes to 12mm, corolla woolly inside, glabrous follicles to 130mm long x 35mm, downy or glabrescent leaves pubescent on nerves 110mm x 75mm, corky bark

Further References

• Menninger 1970
• Herklots 1976
• FOC
• Botanicus
• JDH
• de Candolle
• The Plant List 2
• G. Don
• USNH
• F Indochine