Thunbergia erecta

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Plant Characteristics
Height: 6 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 6. to 8 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 8.
Width: 7 ft"ft" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 7.
Bloom: early summer, mid summer, late summer
Cultivation
Exposure: sun
USDA Zones: 10 to 12
Flower features: blue, purple
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Scientific Names



Read about Thunbergia erecta in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Thunbergia erecta, T. Anders. (Meyenia erecta, Benth.). Shrub, 2-4 ft. high, with loose spreading branches, half-erect: lvs. opposite, petiolate, ovate or subrhomboid, smooth, entire or sinuate-toothed: fls. solitary on axillary peduncles; calyx cut into 12-14 short teeth, concealed by the large bracts; corolla funnelform; tube curved, deep yellow within; limb purple, l 1/2 - 2 in. across, of 5 subrotund obcordate lobes. Trop. W. Afr. B.M. 5013. F.S. 11:1093. R.H. 1863:251. I.H. 3:99. F. 1855:225. J.H. III. 28:35; 49:261; 54:39.—A greenhouse shrub, producing fls. freely at almost any season. Grows in the open in Fla. Not a climber. Var. alba, Hort. Fls. white. Var. caerulea, Hort. Fls. large, intense violet, with orange throat. CH


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