 |
Rhodochiton atrosanguineum |
 |
| | New flowers: just small bells |
| Common name |
purple bell vine |
| Family |
plantaginaceae |
| Life cycle |
tender perennial |
| Flowers |
purple (summer-fall) |
| Size |
vine to 10 ft |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
Twining tender perennial vine, grown as an annual in our climate. Although the seedlings developed nicely inside, the plants didn't do much of anything once placed outside, and a good fraction perished. But in late summer the survivors finally started twining their heart-shaped leaves up the fence along which I had placed them, and by late August were displaying their flowers. The blooms start as small rounded bells in a deep shade of purple. As they get older, the original bell part develops a lighter shade of rose, while a darker tubular protrusion grows out of its center and proceeds to open - creating a bicolor effect. Up close you can see that all parts of the flower are softly hairy.
|
This plant used to grow in our garden, but it slipped away... About my plant portraits
PlantLinks to other web pages about Rhodochiton atrosanguineum
Visitors to this page have left the following comments| tina brady | Feb 02, 2009 | Your site is great. You have good pics for identification, get to the heart of what a gardener needs to know and do it in a way anyone can understand quickly and completely. I will be sure to mark your site as a favorite.
Tina Brady |
- Seed from NARGS '07/'08 exchange. Baggy 70F with light (90%G, 10-13d)
- Same seed as above. Baggy 70F with light (35%G, 9-14d)
I welcome comments about my web pages; feel free to use the form below to
leave feedback about this particular page. For the benefit of other visitors
to these pages, I will list any relevant comments you leave, and if
appropriate, I will update my page to correct mis-information. Faced with an
ever-increasing onslaught of spam, I'm forced to discard any comments including
html markups. Please submit your comment as plain text. If you have a
comment about the website as a whole, please leave it in my
guestbook. If you
have a question that needs a personal response, please
e-mail me.
|
