Re: Vinca


The annual form is Catharanthus roseus  - Madagascar Periwinkle,
Periwinkle, or Vinca.  This page from Ohio State has about all the
info you'd ever need about it, but the pix page seems to have
departed:

http://www.hcs.ohio-state.edu/hcs/TMI/Plantlist/ca_oseus.html

But this page has a good one of the flowers:

http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/1079/vinca.html

And here's another with a better image of a whole plant in flower;

http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/mi09/mi09092.jpg

Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Mike Cook & Sheila Smith <mikecook@PIPELINE.COM>
> Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:16 AM
>
> Hi, Joe.  The perennial plant is what I have been talking
about...was
> everybody else that was in that discussion doing the same?
>
> What does the annual form look like?
>
>
> Sheila Smith
> mikecook@pipeline.com
> Niles, MI  USA, Z 5/6



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