madagascar rubber vine

donna has just posted a photo of my madagascar rubber vine [cryptostegia grandiflora]. it's call a vine [which it's not] because it has long cascading branches. it's called rubber [which it's not] because it has sticky white sap that resembles latex from the rubber tree, ficus elastica.

http://www.illianagardenpond.org/jimsphotos.htm

but the real news of the day is my trip to tropiflora nursery this morning where i purchased a white desert rose and saw [first time ever] a purple one. the purple one--one, the guy said, of two that they have--is not for sale and probably won't be available for several years. he said the first one was a chance find in a large shipment of stock from the philippines.

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