Porana

Plant Characteristics

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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Porana in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Porana (native name). Convolvulaceae . Large twining annual herbs or shrubs, sometimes grown for ornament. Leaves petioled, ovate, entire: infl. cymose or racemose; fls. purple, steel-blue or white; sepals in fl. small, narrow, in fr. all or 3 much enlarged; corolla campanulate or funnel-shaped, wide- or narrow mouthed; limb 5-plaited, nearly entire or lobed; ovary 2-celled, 4-ovuled: fr. a globose membranous oblong or obconic caps, indehiscent or 2-valved. About 15 species from Trop. E. Afr., oriental tropics and N. Austral.; 1 species reported from Mex. The two following species have been intro. into S. Calif., but are said to be hardly worth growing. P. paniculata, Roxbg. Strong shrubby climber often 30 ft. high: lvs. 5 x 3 in., pubescent above: panicles terminating every branchlet with innumerable fls.; sepals in fl. linear-oblong; corolla glabrous, campanulate, white, very short-lobed: caps, globose, hairy. India, Malaya. Gn. 61, p. 323. P.racemosa.Jacq. f. An annual, forming dense, not lofty masses: lvs. 2-3 x 1 1/2 in.: racemes lax; bracts at the forks leafy, sessile, scarious in fruit: sepals in fl. linear-oblong, puberulous; corolla lobed nearly half-way: caps, apiculate, glabrous. India. Called the "snow-creeper" by the English as the masses of white, fls. resemble snow in the jungle. F. Tracy Hubbard. CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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References

• Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963

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