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'''''Thunbergia mysorensis''''', or '''Clock Vine''', is a woody-stemmed, [[evergreen]] climbing [[flowering plant]], native to [[India]].  The name, ''mysorensis'' is derived from the city of [[Mysore]] in the south of India.
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Is also sometimes called "Brick & Butter Vine" & "Dolls' Shoes".
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The vine often reaches 20 feet (6 metres) and has narrow leaves.  The flowers are shaped like pendants and are brownish red with a yellow center, and bloom from Spring to Autumn.
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The plant is a popular tropical garden item because of its attractiveness to [[hummingbird]]s.  
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Thunbergia mysorensis, T. Anders. (Hexacentris mysorensis, Wight). Climbing shrub, with long, slender branches: lvs. opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or somewhat distantly toothed: racemes long, pendulous: fls. yellow, 2 in. across, the tube purple, inclosed by the spathe-like bracts; limb 4-lobed, the upper lip erect, concave, with reflexed side lobes, lower lip of 3 subequal, spreading lobes. India. —A tall greenhouse climber which flowers, according to treatment, at all seasons.
 
Thunbergia mysorensis, T. Anders. (Hexacentris mysorensis, Wight). Climbing shrub, with long, slender branches: lvs. opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or somewhat distantly toothed: racemes long, pendulous: fls. yellow, 2 in. across, the tube purple, inclosed by the spathe-like bracts; limb 4-lobed, the upper lip erect, concave, with reflexed side lobes, lower lip of 3 subequal, spreading lobes. India. —A tall greenhouse climber which flowers, according to treatment, at all seasons.
  
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Var. lutea, Hort. (Hexacentris lutea, Hort., Veitch. G.C. 1854, p. 151, not T. lutea, T. Anders.), has the fls. pure yellow; a variety with a crimson limb and yellow tube is figured in Paxton's Flower Garden, 3:88.
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Var. lutea, Hort. (Hexacentris lutea, Hort., Veitch.), has the fls. pure yellow.
 
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Plant Characteristics
Habit   vine-climber

Height: ⇕ 20 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20.
Width: ⇔ 20 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 20.
Lifespan: ⌛ perennial
Bloom: ❀ early spring, mid spring, late spring
Cultivation
Exposure: ☼ sun, part-sun
Features: ✓ flowers
USDA Zones: 10 to 12
Flower features: ❀ orange, yellow
Scientific Names

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Thunbergia mysorensis, or Clock Vine, is a woody-stemmed, evergreen climbing flowering plant, native to India. The name, mysorensis is derived from the city of Mysore in the south of India. Is also sometimes called "Brick & Butter Vine" & "Dolls' Shoes".

The vine often reaches 20 feet (6 metres) and has narrow leaves. The flowers are shaped like pendants and are brownish red with a yellow center, and bloom from Spring to Autumn.

The plant is a popular tropical garden item because of its attractiveness to hummingbirds.


Read about Thunbergia mysorensis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Thunbergia mysorensis, T. Anders. (Hexacentris mysorensis, Wight). Climbing shrub, with long, slender branches: lvs. opposite, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, entire or somewhat distantly toothed: racemes long, pendulous: fls. yellow, 2 in. across, the tube purple, inclosed by the spathe-like bracts; limb 4-lobed, the upper lip erect, concave, with reflexed side lobes, lower lip of 3 subequal, spreading lobes. India. —A tall greenhouse climber which flowers, according to treatment, at all seasons.

Var. lutea, Hort. (Hexacentris lutea, Hort., Veitch.), has the fls. pure yellow.


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