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RE: WISTERIA FLORIBUNDA/AKEBIA QUINATA

>This discussion reminds me of a question I have wanted to ask. Are there
>two different species of Wisteria? Here in Irving, TX I notice that some
>Wisteria blooms only once, and quite profusely I might add, and others
>wait until late summer to start blooming and bloom a little at a time.
>Their foliage seems to differ as well.
>
>What gives?
>


Actually, there are several species of wisteria.

American species:

Wisteria frutescens
Wisteria macrostachya (=macrostachys)

Japanese/Chinese species:

Wisteria florabunda
Wisteria sinensis

These latter 2 can be differentiated as follows:
W. floribunda - twines clockwise, flowers appearing after leaves in spring.
W. sinensis - twines anti-clockwise, flowers appearing before leaves in spring

My own W. floribunda, which FINALLY bloomed this spring, actually had a few
sparse flowers about 3 weeks ago.  I don't know if W. sinensis does this,
but in both species, spring flowering is generally most prolific.


Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
d*@post.its.mcw.edu

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