Re: I.D. Help Required/ Vine not Lapageria


> Glenn Breayley wrote:
> > 
> > Hi All
> > 
> > I have three plants which have me a little
> flummoxed, so any help would be
> > appreciated.

> > 3/ I have a climber sold to me as Lapageria rosea,
> which I was very excited
> > to get, especially when it really thrived for me.
> Its not though. It has a
> > similar looking, mauve, fox glove type, flower but
> these are borne in
> > definite panicles, arising in spring, from the
> woody stems. Leaves are
> > opposite comprised of 5 leaflets, two being
> opposite pairs & one terminal.
> > Entire & deeply veined. Again, any ideas ?
> 
> Moira Ryan wrote:
> 3/The _real_ Lapigeria rosea is I think quite
> unmistakable because of
> the extraordinary texture of the petals which look
> as though moulded out
> of wax. I know of nothing else remotely like them.
> There are red pink
> and white forms and the red kinds are often
> noticeably spotted with
> white. The corolla is bell-shaped and consists of
> separate overlapping
> petals, rather than the fused corolla found in
> things like foxgloves. 
> 
>  The leaves are bright green and very shiny and
> appear to be mostly
> alternate on quite stiff cane-like stems.
> 
> Just a wild stab at identifying your climber. What
> about Thunbergia
> grandiflora?
> Botanica says frost tender and needing protection
> from drying summer
> winds.
> 
> Moira

This vine is definitely not a Thunbergia grandiflora,
as the leaves are not compound, but single and
opposite along the stems, and the bloom season is not
limited to spring, but whenever it is warm enough to
encourage bloom.  The description sounds a bit similar
to a Pandorea jasminoides, except for the part about
the deep veins.  The flower color is also not quite
right, as it is pink or white.  This plant does very
well here in the Bay Area, but I find it tends to go
deciduous in my garden with the onset of cold weather.
 (As I reached out the window to grab a leaf to look
at its veins, all the leaflets started dropping
off...)  My guess is that your vine is another vine in
the bignoniaceae family, and may be one of the more
tropical ones which we don't or can't grow here in
northern California.  Some of the tropical vines I saw
in Bali and Malaysia with this color/form of flower:
Saritaea magnifica/Purple Bignonia, Cryptostegia
grandiflora/Rubber Vine, Pseudocalymna
alliaceum/Garlic Vine.

Regards, 
David Feix 

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